An Israeli judge decided to open an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Palestinian prisoner on November 13, according to what two human rights organizations reported.
A joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority (governmental) and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the Israeli judge in the Hadera Court (northern Israel) decided on Monday evening “to open an immediate investigation into the case of the martyrdom of prisoner Abd al-Rahman Ahmad Mar’i (33 years old) from the town of Qarawat Bani.” Hassan/Salfit (North).”
The two institutions explained that the judge’s decision came after the court found out that the martyr prisoner, Marhi, “was subjected to severe beatings and torture, as there were injuries, signs, and traces of the crime on his body.”
The statement stated that the judge asked the Israeli police to provide the court “with the details of the party that investigated the incident of the martyrdom of prisoner Marhi by the prison administration, provided that the court and the lawyer of the martyr’s family are provided with the forensic report until December 25, 2023.”
He pointed out that “Mar’i died in Megiddo Prison in northern Israel on November 13, 2023 after a fierce attack launched by the occupation prison administration on male and female prisoners after the seventh of last October, as 6 prisoners died as martyrs in prisons since that date.” .
Marhi was arrested on February 25. He is married and the father of four children, the oldest of whom is 11 years old and the youngest 4 years old. He has a martyr’s brother, Muhammad Marhi, who was martyred in 2005, according to the statement.
On November 29, the Prisoners’ Commission addressed the Qatari and Egyptian mediators, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations, and the countries of the world “with the need to put pressure on the occupation to stop its retaliatory attack and the systematic crimes it is waging against us inside the prisons” after last October 7.
She said, in a statement issued at the time, citing the National Prisoner Movement, which represents prisoners in Israeli prisons, that “the Zionist occupation subjected us to dangerous conditions of detention, transformed prisons into deadly iron graves, and launched systematic assassination and execution operations against prisoners, which led to the martyrdom of a number of them.”