RAMALLAH, October 20, 2025 (WAFA) – A Palestinian elderly detainee from the Gaza Strip has died in an Israeli hospital, the General Authority for Civil Affairs announced on Monday.
The Authority informed both the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) that 69-year-old Kamil Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Ajrami had died at Israel’s Soroka Hospital on October 10, 2025, after being transferred there from Naqab Prison, where he had been held.
The Commission and the PPS said in a joint statement that Al-Ajrami, a father-of-six-children, had been arrested by Israeli occupation forces on October 25, 2024.
With Al-Ajrami’s death, the number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli custody since the onset of Israel’s genocidal aggression on Gaza in October 2025 has risen to 80, all of whom have been identified, at a time when dozens of other detainees have been subjected to forced disappearance.
They described the current period as the “bloodiest” since 1967, as the total number of documented cases of Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli imprisonment has reached 317, at a time when the occupation authorities continue to withhold the bodies of 88 prisoners, including 77 whose bodies have been withheld since the onset of the Gaza genocidal aggression.
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