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*58 Palestinian detainees martyred after Gaza genocide*
Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) & Commission of Detainees' Affairs
January 29, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - With the martyrdom of the two Palestinian political prisoners, Mohammad Al-Asali and Ibrahim Ashour from Gaza, the total number of identified martyred detainees has risen to 58 people, including 37 martyrs from Gaza. There are dozens more unidentified martyred detainees from Gaza who are subject to enforced disappearances in Israel's custody and whom it refuses to provide information on.
The killing of Al-Asali and Ashour brings the total number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since 1967, to 295 people. There are 67 martyred detainees whose bodies are being withheld, including 56 people since the start of the genocide.
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Detainees held in Megiddo prison suffer from difficult detention conditions
Detainee Mahdi Abu Sharifa, 32, from Jalazon camp/Ramallah, suffers from scabies and deprived of medical treatment and clothes
Detainee Muhammad Abu Moamar, 33, from Ramallah, suffers from skin disease due to deprivation of clothes
Detainee Ayman Salameh, 31, from Nablus, suffers from degrading treatment, as he was subjected to intense beat and handcuffing during interrogation
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? Two more Palestinian Detainees Martyred in Occupation’s Custody
January 29, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – Two Palestinian political prisoners arrested from Gaza have been martyred in the Israeli occupation’s custody, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association announced today after receiving confirmation from the occupation army.
35-year-old Mohammad Sharif al-Asali was martyred on May 17, 2024, while 25-year-old Ibrahim Adnan Ashour was martyred on June 23, 2024. Both of their bodies are still being withheld by occupation forces.
Mohammad al-Asali is a husband and father-of-four. He was arrested from al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during the Israeli occupation’s assault in March 2024. His family later learned that he was being held in Asqalan Prison. He had no chronic health problems prior to his arrest according to his family. During the genocide, all of his siblings were martyred, and only his father survived.
As for the martyred detainee Ashour, he was arrested on February 14, 2024, from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Like al-Asali, he had no known chronic health issues.
Prisoner defense groups submitted multiple requests to visit Ashour thinking he was in Ofer Prison, to no avail. The occupation’s last response was that he was in interrogation and could not be visited. Even though Ashour was killed back in June, occupation authorities did not inform the lawyers until more than six months later. In most of its responses, the occupation claims that the interrogation is ongoing, in an attempt to evade any accountability.
The Commission and the PPS explained that with the martyrdom of al-Asali and Ashour, the number of identified martyred detainees in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 58 people, at least 37 of whom were arrested from Gaza. This is the highest number in history, marking this period as the bloodiest in the history of the Palestinian prisoners' movement since 1967. The total number of known martyrs since 1967 now stands at 295 people, with dozens more detainees from Gaza still subject to enforced disappearance.
We hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of al-Asali and Ashour. Prisoner institutions reiterate their call to the international human rights system to take effective decisions to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for the war crimes they continue to carry out against the Palestinian people. We demand sanctions against the occupation that would isolate it internationally and restore the core role of the human rights system, which was established for this purpose. They also called for an end to the exceptional immunity that colonial states have granted Israel, treating it as above accountability, punishment, and justice.
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Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
The Policy of Deliberate Medical Neglect
A ghost haunts sick detainees held in Ofer Prison
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Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
10 female detainees held in Damoun prison are awaiting their liberty
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?*Autopsy Report Confirms Martyrdom of Palestinian Detainee Through Torture*
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners’ Society
January 23, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – The Palestinian detainee Mohammad Hussein al-‘Aref (45) was deliberately killed through torture by Israeli occupation forces during his interrogation at the Jalama detention center, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have revealed.
The details became clear after an autopsy was conducted and an initial medical report was provided to his family. ‘Aref, who was arrested on November 28, 2024, lost his life less than a week later, on December 4, 2024. The medical report notes that there were “multiple signs of physical assault and excessive use of restraints […] likely causing traumatic intracranial bleeding.” The report also outlines the presence of blood clots in various parts of his body, signs of a heart attack, and a pulmonary obstruction. The blood clots were found in the left side of his head, both arms and legs, chest, and abdomen.
‘Aref, who hails from the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, was transferred from the Jalama interrogation center directly to the Israeli occupation’s Rambam Hospital where he was declared dead shortly after arriving.
The martyred detainee ‘Aref is one of 56 Palestinian prisoners and detainees who were killed and died in Israeli prisons after the outbreak of the Gaza genocide. This number only reflects those whose identities have been confirmed. There are many other prisoners from Gaza who have been killed in Israel’s prisons and military detention camps, which it refuses to provide information on.
The assassination of detainee Mohammad al-‘Aref is part of a broader pattern of systematic crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails and detention camps for decades. Particularly since the genocide, dozens of prisoners and detainees have been killed through torture, alongside deprivation of medical care, intentional starvation, and severe beatings. This is the highest number of killings in prison on record.
Torture methods have now exceeded previously recognized forms and have evolved into new techniques, beginning from the very first moment of arrest. These include violent arrest, intimidation, severe beatings, restraints that intentionally cause excruciating pain and injury, "shabah" (forcing them into strenuous positions), detention in degrading and humiliating conditions, verbal abuse against detainees and their families, long periods of interrogation, sleep deprivation, starvation, and sexual assault, including rape.
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Details on detention conditions for both detainees Shaden Qaws & Saly Sadaqa
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The spokesperson for the commission of Detainees Affairs, Thaer Shreiteh ,stated:
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Briefing paper: Key Palestinian prisoner exchange deals with the Israeli occupation
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
January 2025
In this briefing paper, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) present information about the key prisoner exchanges in the history of the Palestinian struggle with the occupation.
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“Burned with boiling water, urinated on,” New testimonies of Palestinian detainees from Gaza.
January 2025
Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) & Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
Ramallah, Palestine - The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees Affairs released a new report detailing severe torture and abuse by occupation soldiers against Palestinians detained from Gaza, including burning them with boiling water and urinating on them.
This report is based on the testimonies of 23 detainees, gathered during visits to the prisoners by the lawyers of the Commission of Detainees Affairs. The visits took place between January 6-8, 2025, at the Naqab (Negev) prison and the Naftali military detention camp.
The testimonies reveal shocking details about the systematic torture that Palestinian detainees are being subject to across all prisons. While the Sdei Teiman military detention camp received the largest share of media attention due to the gang-rape that took place there, it is imperative to note that similar practices are taking place across many other prisons.
Occupation authorities also recently released a video from Rakefet prison, which is located underground in the Ramla prison. It is one of several prisons restored by the occupation after the genocide to hold Palestinians from Gaza.
*The detainees’ identities have been kept anonymous to protect against retaliation by prison authorities.
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Liberty is within reach
Palestine awaits its heroes
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? Detainee Motaz Abu Zneid suffered from severe scabies disease before his martyrdom
14/1/2025
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
Ramallah, Palestine – The 35-year-old detainee Motaz Abu Zneid who was martyred on Monday, January 13, 2025, was suffering from an advanced stage of scabies, during which occupation authorities deprived him of life-saving medical care, leading to his killing, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society revealed today.
The new details emerged after the PPS spoke to one of the recently released detainees who were held with Abu Zneid at the Ganot prison. He told the PPS that Abu Zneid began suffering from scabies skin disease several months ago. The occupation’s prison authorities deliberately delayed providing him with treatment, causing Abu Zneid’s condition to severely worsen. The boils and swelling on his body became very extreme with the passing of time, and he lost a great deal of weight, until he lost the ability to eat, stand and even use the restroom.
“The top layer of Abu Zneid’s skin began to fall off. We demanded the prison administration transfer him to hospital, but they did not heed our demands. On January 4, he lost consciousness, and two days later he was transferred to the hospital,” the former detainee PPS spoke to said.
Abu Zneid is a husband and father to one child from the city of Dura in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. He passed away while in the occupation’s Soroka hospital in the 1948-occupied territories. His family said that he did not have any pre-existing medical conditions before his arrest in June 2023.
The PPS, the Commission of Detainees Affairs, and all other relevant institutions hold the occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of Abu Zneid and the dozens of other Palestinians who have been killed in custody.
Scabies skin disease has not stopped spreading in the occupation’s prisons to this day. The testimonies of current and released prisoners reflect how the occupation used this disease as a tool for torturing and killing them. Prison authorities deliberately refuse to provide hygienic products and enough ventilation to the prisoners. They also refuse to provide prisoners with an adequate amount of food, water, and clothing, leading to an overall state of weakness in the immune system of the detainees.
The case of the martyr Mohammad Munir Musa from Bethlehem, reflects a similar pattern of abuse by the occupation. Musa, who suffered from diabetes, was martyred in October 2024, after he contracted scabies, leading to his martyrdom. There is more information about detainees from Gaza who were recently martyred as a result of scabies.
The number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since the start of the genocide in Gaza has risen to 55 people. Dozens of other unidentified detainees arrested from Gaza have been martyred and subject to enforced disappearance. This number is the highest on record. Since the occupation of 1967, there have been least 292 identified martyred Palestinian detainees.
The Commission and the PPS urge immediate intervention to save the lives of thousands of Palestinian detainees held by the occupation, and who are being subject to an unprecedented rate of murder, torture and abuse. The international human rights system must take real steps to hold the occupation accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions with the intent of isolating it. The state of exceptional immunity granted to the occupying state of Israel by the world’s colonial powers has allowed it to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity for decades with zero accountability.
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The Israeli Prison Service transferred the body of the martyred prisoner Moataz Abu Zneid to the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine.
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Martyrdom of administrative detainees Mutaz Abu Znaid from Dura / Hebron at Soroka Hospital
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Commission of Detainees Affairs
“Detainees whose identities are known, who was martyred after October 7, 2023 in Israeli prisons
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The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs disclose detainees’ conditions held in Ofer prison, including sick detainees
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Update on the number of Palestinian detainees in January 2025
This data does not include all of the detainees from Gaza because occupation authorities refuse to provide information about them
■ Total number of prisoners at the start of January 2025: More than 10,400 people.
■ Female prisoners: 87 women, including four identified female prisoners from Gaza. *Data on women until Jan. 9, 2025.
■ Children: At least 320
■ Administrative detainees (held without trial or charge): 3,376 people including 95 children and 22 women.
■ Palestinians held by the occupation under the ‘illegal combatants’ law: 1,886 people (all from the Gaza Strip)
Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society
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Update on the number of Palestinian detainees in January 2025
This data does not include all of the detainees from Gaza because occupation authorities refuse to provide information about them
■ Total number of prisoners at the start of January 2025: More than 10,400 people.
■ Female prisoners: 87 women, including four identified female prisoners from Gaza. *Data on women until Jan. 9, 2025.
■ Children: At least 320
■ Administrative detainees (held without trial or charge): 3,376 people including 95 children and 22 women.
■ Palestinians held by the occupation under the ‘illegal combatants’ law: 1,886 people (all from the Gaza Strip)
Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society
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The difficult detention conditions increase the plight of detainees, especially the sick ones
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? Detainees’ organizations issue a report on the most significant information and data related to detainees in Israeli prisons during 2024
? The bloodiest year in the history of the Captive Movement
Ramallah- detainees organizations (Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Addameer Association for Human Rights) issued a report summarizing key issues and data regarding the situation of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons during 2024.
This year has been marked as the bloodiest in the history of the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation.
The report includes an extensive analysis of policies, statistics, and the horrific crimes committed by the Israeli occupation during arrest campaigns, particularly in the West Bank, which escalated following the onset of what has been described as a war of extermination.
This is in the light of the ongoing comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people and the continuous genocide in Gaza for more than 450 days.
The report highlights significant transformations afflicting the conditions of detainees following the war, as part of broader systemic changes imposed by the Israeli prison authorities over recent years. It also documents the widespread crimes witnessed, including severe torture of detainees, enforced disappearances of detainees from Gaza, administrative detentions, and systematic killings of detainees.
Since the start of the war, (54) detainees and prisoners have been killed, whose identities are confirmed. Among them, (35) martyrs were from Gaza. In total, (43) detainees were killed in 2024.
The report is based on daily field monitoring of arrests, reports from legal teams within the organizations, and numerous testimonies documented throughout the year.
Attached is Statistical data on detention campaigns and numbers of Palestinian detainees since the onset of the genocide until the end of 2024.
Total arrest cases during 2024 stands at (8800) in the West Bank and Jerusalem, (14,300) since the beginning of war
This data excludes arrest cases carried out in the Gaza Strip, estimated at thousands .
Women: the total number of women arrests stands at (266) during 2024, and more than (450) since the beginning of war, including women arrested from the lands occupied in 1948, in addition to tens of Gazan women who have been arrested in the West Bank, estimated at tens.
. Children: the number of children arrests stands at (700) during 2024, and (1055) since the beginning of war
. Journalists: (145) journalists have been arrested since the beginning of war.
. Physicians: (320) physicians have been arrested from the West Bank and Gaza since the beginning of war.
More than (10000) orders of administrative detention have been issued since October 7, ranging between new orders and renewals, including orders against children and women.
Detention campaigns carried out since October 7 are accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beat, threats against detainees and their families, besides to vandalism and destruction in detainees’ houses, confiscating vehicles, gold and money, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and demolitions of detainees houses, using family members as hostages, in addition to using detainees as human shields.
Statistics include detainees who were arrested from their houses, on checkpoints, who surrendered themselves and those who were arrested as hostages.
Besides to detention campaigns, the Israeli forces implemented field executions, afflicted detainees and their family members.
It has been noted that the information about arrest cases in the West Bank include detainees who still under arrest, and released ones.
The highest record of arrest cases was in Hebron and Jerusalem.
Data exclude detention cases of Gaza, due to the occupation’s refusal to give any information and the continuation of practicing the crime of enforced disappearance against them. It is worth mentioning that the occupation forces arrested hundreds of Gazan workers from the West Bank, in addition to Gazans who have been in the West Bank for treatment. Moreover, they arrested more than ( 1000) citizens from northern Gaza.