RAMALLAH, September 14, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said that Palestinian detainee Mahmoud Hassan Al-Wardian was subjected to an execution attempt inside Israeli investigation cells before his release in critical condition.
The Commission and the PPS stated in a joint statement on Sunday evening that Al-Wardian, 38, from Bethlehem, was detained on August 18 with his father and several other Palestinians as part of a wide-scale detention campaign in the governorate.
Al-Wardian was transferred to the Ofer investigation center following his detention. Legal follow-up on his case indicated that Israeli intelligence authorities barred him from meeting his lawyer during the entire period of his detention, which was repeatedly extended to complete the investigations.
On August 25, Al-Wardian was transferred from Ofer Prison to Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center in critical condition, unconscious, and placed in the intensive care unit, despite having no prior health issues before his detention. On September 11, a sudden decision was issued to release him due to the severity of his health condition. He was then transferred directly to the intensive care unit at the Arab Society Hospital in Bethlehem, where he remains in critical condition.
According to medical reports issued after his release, Al-Wardian suffers from brain damage caused by severe oxygen deprivation. He also sustained bilateral rib fractures, bruises and contusions around the neck, superficial wounds on the wrists and left hand, as well as scattered bruises on the right knee, lower left leg, and right ear.
In a statement, the Commission and PPS affirmed that the Israeli occupation committed a compounded crime against Al-Wardian, beginning from the moment of his detention, through his transfer for investigation, the denial of access to a lawyer, and the repeated extensions of his detention under the pretext of completing investigations, and ending with his torture and attempted execution.
The statement noted that Al-Wardian had been a frequent target of repeated detentions over the years, most of them under administrative detention.
They held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the crime committed against Al-Wardian, describing it as a new link in the chain of massive crimes carried out by the occupation over decades, which reached its peak with the onset of the genocidal war.
The statement warned that since the start of the genocidal war, the systematic torture of thousands of detainees and prisoners has reached unprecedented levels, with no one spared from practices that violate international laws and norms, as the occupation continues to devise new methods and tools for continuous torture.
They condemned the ongoing international silence over the occupation’s ongoing crimes against Palestinian detainees and prisoners, calling it an assault on humanity as a whole.
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