RAMALLAH, December 4, 2025 (WAFA) – The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society announced on Thursday, the names of three Palestinian prisoners from Gaza who have died in Israeli prisons and military camps in recent months. The detainees are: Taysir Saeed al-Abd Sababa 60, Khamis Shukri Mar’i Ashour 44, and Khalil Ahmad Khalil Haniyeh 35.
In a joint statement, both organization affirmed that the Sababa family was officially notified through the HaMoked human rights organization following a response from the Israeli army. The Commission and the Prisoners’ Society also received separate responses from the Israeli army confirming the deaths of Khamis Ashour and Khalil Haniyeh.
According to the responses, Sababa died on December 31, 2024, two months after his arrest; Ashour died on February 8, 2024, one day after his arrest; and Haniyeh died on December 25, 2024, approximately one year after his arrest.
Sababa is father of nine, Khamis Ashour a father of six, and Khalil Haniyeh a father of four.
The Commission and the Prisoners’ Society affirmed that the three men are among dozens of prisoners and detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since the start of the Israeli aggression, as a result of torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual assault, and systematic violations of human rights.
Many Gazan detainees remain forcibly disappeared, in addition to dozens who were summarily executed. Images of bodies returned after the ceasefire went into effect as evidence of the systematic executions carried out by the occupation.
The number of detainees who died in Israeli custody since the beginning of the Israeli aggression has exceeded one hundred. The identities of 84 of them have been announced, including 50 detainees from Gaza. This brings the total number of documented Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli custody since 1967 to 321.
Both organizations held the Israeli authorities fully responsible for the deaths of the prisoners, calling on the international human rights community to take effective measures to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
They also demanded an end to the impunity granted to Israel by the United States and other international powers for decades, despite overwhelming evidence of the occupation's perpetration of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against prisoners and detainees.
They further affirmed that the violations committed by the Israeli prison system against detainees constitute part of an ongoing campaign of extermination aimed at carrying out slow executions. This represents the bloodiest phase in the history of the Palestinian prisoners' movement, as Israel attempts to legalize the execution of Palestinian prisoners and enshrine it in law.
The data showed that the vast majority of detainees are being held without trial, including those under arbitrary administrative detention and those classified by the occupation as "unlawful combatants."
As of the end of November 2025, the number of administrative detainees reached approximately 3,368, while the number of those classified as "unlawful combatants" reached 1,205, not counting all detainees from Gaza.
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