Commission of Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society Announce Names of Three Palestinians Abducted from Gaza and Martyred in the Occupation's Custody

on 04 December 2025. Posted in Martyrs

December 4, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) announced the names of three martyrs from among the Palestinians abducted from occupied Gaza and were killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in recent months. They are: Taysir Saeed al-Abd Sabbaba (60), Khamees Shukri Mer'i Ashour (44), and Khalil Ahmad Khalil Haniyeh (35).

The family of prisoner Sabbaba was officially informed by the HaMoked rights group through a response from the occupying military, while the Commission and the PPS received two responses from the army confirming the martyrdom of detainees Khamees Ashour and Khalil Haniyeh.

According to these responses, prisoner Sabbaba was killed on December 31, 2024, two months after his arrest; prisoner Khamees Ashour was killed on February 8, 2024 - one day after his arrest - and prisoner Khalil Haniyeh on December 25, 2024, nearly a year after his arrest.

The Commission and the PPS noted that Sabbaba was married and a father-of-nine; Ashour was a father-of-six; and Haniyeh a father-of-four.

The two institutions added that these three martyrs are among dozens of Palestinian political prisoners who were killed since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza and in the occupation’s prisons as a result of widespread torture, starvation, medical abuse, sexual assaults, and a host of other forms of deprivation, dispossession, abuse, humiliation, and detention in degrading conditions. Many of the detainees martyred after their abduction from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared, in addition to dozens who were executed in the field. The bodies of detainees returned after the ceasefire provided clear evidence of the systematic executions carried out by the occupying army.

The number of martyred Palestinian prisons since the start of the genocide, according to documentation by human-rights organizations and Palestinian specialized institutions, has exceeded 100 people, and this number is not final. Of these, 84 people have been identified by the relevant Palestinian institutions, including 50 detainees from Gaza. This raises the total number of Palestinian prisoner martyrs since 1967 to 321 people.

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for the systematic killing of Palestinian detainees, and renewed their call on the international human-rights system to take effective measures to hold occupation leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. They urged an end to the exceptional impunity granted to the Israeli occupation by the United States and other international powers for decades—impunity that reached its peak with the start of the genocide—despite clear evidence of the crime of genocide committed against Palestinians in Gaza, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against political prisoners.

The two institutions stressed that the crimes committed by the prison system against detainees are part and parcel of the ongoing genocide, through which the occupation seeks to carry out slow-motion executions. This stage has become the most violent in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement, at a time when the occupation is attempting to legislate a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, turning extrajudicial executions into a legalized policy.

The PPS and the Commission noted that the vast majority of prisoners currently held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons are detained without trial—either under arbitrary “administrative detention” or classified by the occupation as “unlawful combatants.” According to available data, as of November 2025, the number of administrative detainees reached 3,368, while those classified as “unlawful combatants” numbered 1,205—a figure that does not include all Gaza detainees.