RAMALLAH, August 2, 2025 (WAFA) – The Civil Affairs Authority Commission informed the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) that Palestinian administrative detainee, Ahmad Sa’id Saleh Tazaza’a, has died in the Israeli Megiddo jail. The circumstances surrounding his death remain unknown.
The death of 20-year-old detainee Mohammad Ibrahim Hussein Abu Habel, from Jenin, adds to the growing number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the intensified and systematic abuses perpetrated by the Israeli prison system since the onset of the ongoing genocide.
Tazaza’a was detained on May 6, 2025.
The Commission and PPS said in a joint statement that Megiddo prison, where detainee Tazaza’a was held, has been among the most notorious prisons with documented serious violations, particularly amid the ongoing spread of scabies, which the prison administration has effectively turned into a tool for causing further deaths among detainees.
With Tazaza’a’s death, the number of identified Palestinian prisoners and detainees who have died since the beginning of the ongoing genocide has reached 761. This only includes those whose identities have been confirmed amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance.
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 whose identities are known and who have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 has risen to 313, according to data documented by the relevant institutions.
The statement emphasized that the unprecedented rise in the number of detainees who have died once again confirms that the occupation’s prison system continues to implement a policy of slow death against them, stressing that not a month goes by without the death of a new detainee being reported.
They emphasized that with the ongoing commission of crimes inside the prisons, the number of detainee deaths is expected to rise over time.
The statement highlighted that thousands remain detained under conditions lacking basic living standards and are subjected daily to systematic abuses, including torture, starvation, various forms of assault, medical neglect, sexual violence, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that cause serious and contagious diseases, particularly scabies.
The two organizations held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the death of Tazaza’a and renewed their call on the international human rights community to take decisive action to hold Israeli officials accountable for the ongoing war crimes being committed against the Palestinian people.
In a joint statement, they urged the imposition of sanctions to isolate Israel internationally and to restore the credibility of the international human rights system, which they stressed has been severely undermined during the genocide.
They also called for an end to the exceptional immunity granted to Israel by colonial powers, which has enabled it to evade accountability and punishment.
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