Detainees in Megiddo prison are facing illness and hunger

. Detainees attended the visitation while being handcuffed

. Each detainee was allowed to 15 minutes of the visitation

. The lawyer was prevented from talking to detainees privately

*cases in point:

. Detainee Kamal Tharefa, 68, from Nablus.
He suffers from several diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, prostate and scabies. He also lost 30 kilograms of weight due to malnutrition.

. Detainee Walid Edaily, 24, from Nablus
He had a surgery to implant cornea. He has 20 stitches in his eye need to be removed, but the administration of prison refuses to let him see the doctor. He lost 55 kilograms of weight due to malnutrition.

. Detainee Ahmad Hasanat, 16, from Bethlehem
He suffers from scabies. He was isolated with 10 detainees in the same room without any treatment.

■ Palestinian political detainee killed in Israeli occupation’s custody

26/2/2025
Commission of Detainees' Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners' Society

Ramallah, Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the killing of Palestinian political detainee Raafat Abu Fanouneh in their custody. Occupation authorities informed the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs that Abu Fanouneh lost his life today, on February 26, 2025.

Raafat Adnan Abdulaziz Abu Fanouneh is a 34-year-old husband and father who was abducted by the occupation army from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. He did not have any pre-existing health issues. The circumstances and manner in which he was killed remain unclear because occupation authorities have imposed an information blackout on the prisoners.

Abu Fanouneh was being held at the Ramla Prison and was recently transferred to the occupation’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital where he was announced dead. He was wounded by soldiers during his arrest, and his brother Shadi was also taken along with him. Occupation authorities refused to allow any lawyer visits to Abu Fanouneh during his time in detention, leaving his family in the dark for 16 months, before learning that he lost his life today. Since October 7, 2023, family visits have been completely halted.

Abu Fanouneh is the latest Palestinian to be killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in obscure ways that the Israeli army continues to conceal. With Abu Fanouneh, there have been 60 identified Palestinian political detainees who have been killed in custody since the start of the genocide in October 2023, at least 39 of them arrested from Gaza. Dozens more have been killed with the occupation refusing to reveal their fate or identities, leaving countless families in fear and psychological torture. The total number of identified martyred detainees since the occupation of 1967 is 297 people. The rate of killings in prisons and military camps is the highest historically.

The occupation army only responds sporadically and arbitrarily to legal requests for information, and often uses the pretext of an ‘ongoing investigation’ to evade accountability, and to torture Palestinians both physically and mentally as a matter of policy. The Israeli army is the only official side able to reveal the fate of martyred Palestinian detainees since there is no evidence of their killing with the army continuing to withhold their bodies.

The Commission and the PPS stress that the rate of Palestinian detainees losing their lives is unprecedented and will only increase with time. Thousands of Palestinians are held behind bars undergoing a myriad of severe violations including torture, starvation, sexual assault, deprivation of medical treatment, unsanitary conditions leading grave and infectious diseases. The international community must act now to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli custody.

Abu Al Hummus: We call our Egyptian and Qatari brothers to exert pressure on the Israeli authorities to stop breaching the ceasefire agreement and prisoner’s exchange

February 24, 2025

The head of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Raed Abu Al Hummus, condemned the crime of the occupation authorities represented in refusing the release of the seventh group of prisoners, who where supposed to leave prisons last Saturday.

Abu Al Hummus emphasized that these practices confirm the inhumane and unethical mentality of the occupation, and that the manipulation and delay in release process caused a state of tension and distress to the relatives of prisoners. Moreover, he stated that the occupation's attempts to evade its commitments—after more than forty days of continuous compliance, which resulted in the release of hundreds of our heroic prisoners, including prominent leaders and symbols of the prisoners’ movement—will not weaken the determination and resilience of the Palestinian people. Hope will be there always until we receive all our heroes.

Abu Al Hummus called on our Egyptian and Qatari brothers to exert all forms of pressure to compel the negotiations team on behalf of the occupation to release the seventh group of prisoners, adhere to the terms of the agreement and to stop the unjustified manipulation, which reveals the extent of fragility of the occupation system.

Furthermore, he pointed out that the breaches recorded throughout the exchange deal, are accompanied by measures to divide the West Bank with more than 900 checkpoints and gates, and preventing citizens from arriving to Ramallah and Al Birah, especially in the days of release, which exposed the hatred and brutality of this occupation.

Abu Al Hummus confirmed that there is a close follow up with relevant parties regarding the release of the seventh group, in which Israel will be forced to implement within the next hours or days, and he also stated that the Egyptian efforts are continuous in this regard.

Difficult Conditions faced by detainees in Shata Prison as Ramadan Approaches

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs:
Ongoing nightly inspections inside Gilboa Prison sections accompanied by assaults against detainees and severe beatings

We call our Egyptian and Qatari brothers to exert pressure on the Israeli authorities to stop breaching the ceasefire agreement and prisoner’s exchange

The head of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs

Raed Abu Al Hummus

Detainee Saleh Nazzal suffers from deliberate medical neglect in Ofer prison

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs:
The administration of the Russian Compound Prison deprives the sick detainee Sireen Saaedi from treatment

"With the martyrdom of detainee Musab Haniya, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement inside the occupation’s prisons since October of last year has reached 59, raising the total number of known martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 to 296. It is worth noting that there are dozens of martyrs among Gaza detainees who are victims of the crime of enforced disappearance."

February 24, 2025