RAMALLAH, February 26, 2025 (WAFA) –The General Authority for Civil Affairs, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) confirmed the death of detainee Raafat Adnan Abdul Aziz Abu Funouneh, 34, from Gaza on Wednesday, in Ramla prison.

The Comission and PPS said that the Abu Funouneh had been detained since October 7, along with his brother Shadi, and was injured during his detention.

Throughout this period, the occupying forces withheld any information regarding his fate and denied all requests for visits.

According to available information, Abu Funouneh remained in Ramla prison and was recently transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, until his death was confirmed today, noting that before his detention and injury he did not suffer from health problems.

It is noteworthy that he was married and had a child.

They explained that with the death of the detainee Abu Fanouneh, the number of slain Palestinians among the prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 60, adding that they are the only ones whose identities are known, including at least 39 from Gaza, saying that this number is the highest historically, which confirms that this stage is the bloodiest stage in the history of the prisoner movement since 1967.

They stated that the number of slain prisoners whose identities have been confirmed since 1967 has risen to 297, noting that there are dozens of slain prisoners from Gaza detainees who remain subject to the crime of enforced disappearance.

The two institutions continued that the occupation is not satisfied with killing the detainees, but also deliberately conceals their fate and manipulates the responses, emphasizing that this has occurred repeatedly.

They confirmed that all the responses related to the slain prisoners are responses from the occupation army and there is no other evidence of their passing, since the occupation continues to withhold their bodies, and in most of the responses it indicates that an investigation is underway in an attempt to evade any international accountability.

They held Israel fully responsible for the death of the detainee Abu Funouneh and renewed their demand for the international human rights system to take effective action to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against the Palestinian people. They called for sanctions to be imposed on the occupation, placing it in clear international isolation, and for the restoration of the human rights system's fundamental role. 

They further demanded an end to the terrifying state of helplessness that has affected the human rights system during the genocide and an end to the exceptional immunity granted to Israel by old colonial states, allowing it to remain above accountability and punishment.

K.T