A young Palestinian man from the war-torn Gaza Strip has died in an Israeli detention facility, according to recent reports from two Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups.
The Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) announced in a joint statement on Monday that 35-year-old Mus’ab Hani Haniyeh passed away on January 5. Still, Israeli authorities made no mention of the cause.
Haniyeh, father of a nine-year-old child, was from Hamad City and abducted by Israeli forces on March 3, 2024, according to the statement.
Haniyeh was not suffering from any significant health issues prior to his abduction, it highlighted.
“The occupation indicates that an investigation is underway in an attempt to evade any international accountability,” the joint statement added.
The statement noted that Haniyeh’s death brings the total number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since the onset of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, to 59, including 38 prisoners from the besieged coastal sliver.
They slammed the death of Haniyeh as a new crime to be added to the long list of crimes committed against Palestinian detainees.
The groups also voiced concern about the increasingly dangerous upsurge of Palestinian detainees’ deaths, stating that thousands are being held in Israeli prisons and are subjected to torture, starvation, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and contagious diseases.
Foreign Ministry urges intl. investigation into crimes against Palestinian inmates
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Monday called for an international investigation into Israeli crimes against Palestinian prisoners.
The ministry said in a statement that it views with grave concern the increase in the number of Palestinian detainees, particularly from the Gaza Strip, who have died in Israeli jails.
It stated that 59 detainees have died so far in Israeli imprisonment due to systematic torture since the onset of the bloody onslaught on Gaza.
The statement highlighted that such deaths occurred due to the torture and ill-treatment of prisoners, including thousands of detainees whose places of detention and fates have not been disclosed by Israeli officials.
The Palestinian foreign ministry called on international humanitarian and human rights organizations to swiftly intervene to protect Palestinian detainees, and oblige Israeli authorities to fulfill their responsibilities toward detainees.
It also stressed the need to enable the United Nations Commission of Inquiry to assume its tasks and investigate these extrajudicial killings, committed against Palestinian detainees in a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions.
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