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Days of Palestine
09-07-2025
- Health
- Days of Palestine
Prisoner Media Office: Child Prisoners Face Medical Negligence in Megiddo Prison
DaysofPal—The Prisoners' Media Office has revealed a serious escalation in the suffering of child detainees in Israel's Megiddo Prison, amid what it described as deliberate medical negligence by the prison administration. This neglect has led to the spread of serious skin diseases such as scabies and the appearance of boils on the children's bodies, without any effective medical intervention. In a statement monitored, the office stated that several of the detained minors are in critical health conditions. Some are unable to move their hands or touch anything due to extreme pain, while others must rely on their fellow detainees to help them eat, as they can no longer stand or walk. The office emphasized that the conditions endured by these minors in Israeli prisons amount to a clear crime of medical neglect. It is worth noting that since the start of Israel's aggression on Gaza, occupation forces have arrested over 17,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 545 women and 1,400 children. Currently, at least 10,400 Palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons, including 49 women, 440 children, and 3,562 administrative detainees, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society. This escalation coincides with ongoing massacres in the Gaza Strip and continued military and settler assaults in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, which have resulted in the killing of at least 980 Palestinians and the injury of nearly 7,000 others. Shortlink for this post:
Middle East Eye
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Palestinian detainee numbers highest since Second Intifada
The number of Palestinians held in Israeli custody has soared to around 10,800 - the highest recorded number of detainees since the Second Intifada in 2000-05, Palestinian prisoners' advocacy groups have said. The figure includes 50 women, two of them from Gaza, and over 450 children, according to a statement by the Palestinian prisoners' institutions via the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS). It excludes detainees held in Israeli military camps, the statement said. It added that the number of administrative detainees reached 3,629 as of the beginning of July.
Arab News
04-05-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Palestinian detainee Najem dies in Israeli custody after medical negligence
LONDON: A Palestinian prisoner died on Sunday at Israel's Soroka Medical Center after spending more than a year and a half in indefinite administrative detention, the Wafa news agency reported. Mohyee al-Din Fahmi Najem, 60, was detained on Aug. 8, 2023 under administrative detention, a practice that allows Israeli authorities to hold individuals in prison without trial for six months, subject to indefinite renewals. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, said Najem died after suffering from medical neglect in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian Authority's affiliated groups said that Najem 'suffered from chronic illnesses and was denied proper medical care during his incarceration.' Najem was a father of six from Jenin town, in the northern occupied West Bank, who has spent 19 years in Israeli prisons because of his political activism. During a March prison visit, he was unable to walk without assistance, according to the commission and the Prisoners' Society. They accused Israeli authorities of 'compound crimes' during Najem's prolonged detention, and medical negligence. He was previously held in the notorious Negev Prison, known for its outbreaks of scabies last November and poor hygiene and medical infrastructure. Najem is the 66th Palestinian prisoner to die in an Israeli prison since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023. Among those who died, 40 were from the Gaza Strip. Since Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967, 303 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli custody, with 75 of those bodies still being withheld by Israel.
Al-Ahram Weekly
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Another Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli jails - War on Gaza
Palestinian prisoners' rights groups announced that Palestinian detainee Musab Hassan Adili had lost his life in an Israeli jail. Prisoner Musab Adili, from the village of Osarin, south of Nablus, died at Soroka Hospital last night, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) said in a joint statement on Thursday. Adili, 20, was detained on 22 March 2024 and had been serving a sentence of one year and a month. He died just three days before his scheduled release. The statement said Adili's death adds to the growing list of prisoners killed as a result of the Israeli prison authorities' organized crimes, which have unprecedentedly escalated since the beginning of the current genocide in Gaza. It added that his death raises the number of Palestinian detainees killed in Israeli jails since the start of Israel's war on Gaza to 64, 40 of whom, at least, were from Gaza. The groups also noted that these are only the identified cases, referring to the crime of enforced disappearance, which continues to obscure the true scale of deaths in Israeli custody. Furthermore, they emphasized that detainees are subjected to systematic daily abuses, including torture, starvation, various forms of physical assault, medical neglect, sexual violence, and deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to the spread of serious and contagious diseases, most notably scabies. The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs had earlier stated that the number of Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons stands at 9,900. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Al-Ahram Weekly
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Israel intensifies deadly assault on Jenin and Tulkarm - War on Gaza
Israeli occupation forces expanded their military operation in the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarm, demolishing homes and shops, detaining hundreds, displacing thousands, and killing 47 people, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday, according to WAFA. The Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, codenamed Operation Iron Wall, began on 21 January in Jenin. In Jenin, the assault on the city and its refugee camp entered its 64th consecutive day. Military bulldozers continue to raze homes, demolish commercial properties, and widen roads for Israeli military use. The municipality of Jenin said the Israeli army issued demolition orders for about 66 buildings, affecting some 300 homes in neighbourhoods including Al-Aloub, Al-Hawashin, and Al-Samran. The occupation barred residents from retrieving their belongings or returning to the homes they were displaced from. Israeli troops have also bulldozed 100 percent of the camp's streets and approximately 80 percent of the city's streets, displacing residents from 3,200 homes. WAFA reported that the number of displaced persons from Jenin camp has reached 21,000 — 90 percent of the camp's population — and they are now seeking shelter in the town and surrounding villages. The Israeli operation killed 34 Palestinians in Jenin alone, with dozens more injured. They also detained approximately 480 Palestinians in the city and refugee camp, according to Palestinian rights groups. In the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, Israeli forces maintained their military campaign for 58 and 45 days, respectively. Military reinforcements, including armoured vehicles and infantry units, have been deployed, besieging entire neighborhoods. Israeli forces continue to raid and occupy homes, turning them into military barracks. The army seized at least 10 residential buildings. At the same time, hundreds of families have been forcibly displaced, particularly from the Rabaya'a neighborhood of Tulkarm camp and the northern district of the city, according to WAFA. The municipality reported that the occupation destroyed 396 homes and partially damaged 2,573 others in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps. Thousands of shops, vehicles, and other infrastructure have been damaged or demolished. Israeli forces have also blocked major roads with earth mounds and imposed severe restrictions on movement. The occupation also killed at least 13 Palestinians in Tulkarm since the start of the military escalation, including a child and two women — one of whom was eight months pregnant. The Israeli forces forcibly displaced over 4,000 families from Tulkarm. The Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) reported that between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Israeli forces detained at least 25 Palestinians across the West Bank, mainly in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya, and Jerusalem. These arrests are part of an ongoing crackdown that has seen 480 detentions in Jenin and 230 in Tulkarm since the beginning of the Israeli military operation, according to WAFA. Palestinian human rights organizations have documented patterns of systematic Israeli abuses, including field executions, targeted assassinations, forced disappearances, and collective punishment. The occupation forces also used Palestinian detainees as human shields and converted multiple seized homes into military outposts. Israeli forces conduct near-daily raids across the occupied West Bank, frequently arresting Palestinians under the pretext of security operations. These operations, conducted without warrants, often trigger violent confrontations with residents. Under Israeli military law, army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over the three million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, leaving them without any legal recourse. According to Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner rights group, there are currently 9,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons, including 350 children and 21 women. Israel is holding at least 3,405 Palestinians under administrative detention, which allows indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial. Since Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967, mass arrests have been a routine policy. Addameer estimates that the occupation has detained over 800,000 Palestinians in the last 50 years — a figure now believed to be closer to 1 million. This means that 40 percent of Palestinian men and boys in the occupied territories were imprisoned at some point. Nearly every Palestinian family has experienced the detention of a loved one. The expansion of the military operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and across the West Bank shows no signs of abating, as Israeli forces continue large-scale detentions, home demolitions, and forced displacement amid increasing humanitarian concerns. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
