RAMALLAH, August 7, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities are set to conduct an autopsy on the body of Ahmad Tazaz’a, a 20-year-old Palestinian prisoner from Jenin, who died in Israeli custody earlier this month.

The procedure is scheduled for Thursday at 12:00 p.m. at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, in the presence of a medical representative appointed by the family.

According to Jamil Saadeh, Director of the Legal Unit at the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Tazaz’a died on August 3, 2025, and according to his family's confirmation, their son did not suffer from prior health problems before his arrest.

Tazaz’a is one of 76Palestinian detainees who have been killed inside Israeli imprisonment since the beginning of the genocide.

Saadeh affirmed that Israel continues to withhold the bodies of 73 slain prisoners who died since the beginning of the ongoing war of genocide. The Israeli authorities are holding the remains of 84 prisoners from the Palestinian detainee movement.

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