A Palestinian prisoner was martyred in Israeli prisons, two days after he was arrested, wounded by Israeli army bullets from his home in Al-Ain camp in the city of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a statement that the Palestinian Liaison (the contact with Israel) informed the family of the detainee, Walid Ahmed Khalifa (30 years old), from Al-Ain refugee camp in Nablus, of his martyrdom.
The club quoted the Khalifa family as saying, “The occupation army took Walid out of the house while he was injured, and he was transported using a special stretcher to transport the wounded.”
The club, a non-governmental organization, believed that what happened was “an execution, as Khalifa was conscious at the moment he was injured and arrested.”
He stated that Khalifa is “a father of 4 children, one of whom is a month old.”
The club held “the occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Walid Khalifa,” calling on international human rights organizations to restore their “necessary and required” role.
With the martyrdom of detainee Khalifa, the number of Palestinian deaths among detainees after October 7, 2023 rose to 25, while the number of deaths among prisoners since 1967 reached 262.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7, Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights organizations have spoken about the deteriorating conditions in Israeli prisons, especially in the notorious “Sde Teman” prison in southern Israel.
The number of prisoners in Israeli prisons exceeds 9,900, which does not include all Gaza detainees in camps run by the Israeli occupation army, according to the Prisoners’ Club.
Since the start of its ground operation in Gaza on October 27, the Israeli army has arrested thousands of Palestinian civilians, including women, children, and health and civil defense workers.
With absolute American support, Israel is waging a devastating war on Gaza that has left more than 135,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and a deadly famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
In disdain for the international community, Israel continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.