RAMALLAH, April 20, 2025 (WAFA) – The Civil Affairs Commission has informed both the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) that a Palestinian has died at Israel’s Hadassah Hospital.
The detainee, Nasser Khalil Radaydeh, 49, from the Bethlehem-area town of Al-Ubeidiya, was transferred to Hadasa hospital yesterday from Ofer Prison, where he dies today, adding to the growing list of Palestinians who have died as a result of the intensified and systematic crimes committed by the Israeli prison system since the onset of the ongoing genocide.
Radaydeh, a married father of seven, had been imprisoned since September 18, 2023, following his injury by Israeli gunfire at the time of his detention.
According to the Commission and PPS, Radaydeh is the second detainee to be declared dead in Israeli custody within four days. Following his detention and critical injury, he was held for a period at Israel’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where, according to available data and visitation records, his condition had later stabilized.
With Radaydeh’s death, the number of prisoners and detainees who have died since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 65, whose identities are known. At least 40 of these detainees are from Gaza.
This period has been the deadliest in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement since 1967. As a result, the total number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 has risen to 302. Meanwhile, the bodies of 74 deceased prisoners remain withheld, including 63 who died since the start of the genocide.
It is important to note that many detainees from Gaza remain subject to the crime of enforced disappearance.
The Commission and PPS emphasized that the rising number of deaths among detainees will continue to grow as more Palestinians remain in Israeli prisons, where they face daily abuse, including torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual violence and conditions that lead to severe and contagious diseases. In addition, there is an unprecedented level of deprivation and dispossession.
The Commission and PPS held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the death of Radaydeh. They reiterated their calls for the international human rights community to take decisive action to hold Israeli officials accountable for the ongoing war crimes they are committing against the Palestinian people.
In a joint statement, they called for the imposition of sanctions to isolate Israel internationally and restore the role of the international human rights system, which has been severely weakened during the genocide. They also urged an end to the exceptional immunity Israel has been granted by colonial powers, which have allowed it to evade accountability and punishment.
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