Palestinian Prisoners Institutions Issue Urgent Appeal For Immediate Intervention to Stop Ongoing Genocide against Palestinian Political Prisoners

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Only Four Days Since Last Detainee Killed: New Palestinian Political Prisoner Held Without Trial or Charge Murdered in Occupation’s Ofer Prison

December 14, 2025

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society & Commission of Detainees Affairs

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed to Palestinian officials of the General Authority of Civil Affairs of the martyrdom of 26-year-old detainee held without trial or charge, Sakhr Ahmad Khalil Za‘oul in the occupation’s “Ofer” Prison.

Za’oul is from the town of Husan in Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. He was arrested on June 11, 2025. According to his family, he did not suffer from any illnesses prior to his arrest. It is noteworthy that he has another brother imprisoned in the occupation’s prisons - Khalil Za‘oul.

The martyrdom of Sakhr comes only four days after the martyrdom of detainee Abdulrahman Sabateen, from the same town. With his killing, the number of identified martyred political prisoners since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 86 people, while the real number is over 100 people. This figure is not final and reflects a terrifying, shocking, and unprecedented escalation. Dozens of other detainees abducted from Gaza have been martyred and subject to enforced disappearances.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) & the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs’ added that what the Israeli system of brutality practices against prisoners is nothing less than systematic genocide, carried out through public and explicit calls by leaders and ministers in the occupation government—foremost among them the fascist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has promoted the execution of Palestinian prisoners. This occurs in parallel with the practice of slow execution against prisoners through an integrated system involving various occupation agencies, paving the way to legislate the death penalty in its final form.

The PPS & the Commission pointed out that what is happening inside the prisons has surpassed all descriptions and expressions, as the prison system and occupation agencies—including the judiciary—are institutionalizing a new post-war reality aimed at physically and psychologically destroying Palestinian prisoners through a comprehensive system of systematic crimes that constitute an integral part of the genocide. These crimes include: torture, starvation, denial of medical treatment, sexual assaults including rape, and the conversion of prisoners’ basic rights into tools of repression and torture through policies of deprivation and confiscation, in addition to horrific conditions that have led to the spread of diseases and epidemics, foremost among them scabies, which has become an additional tool of torture and killing.

The occupation does not stop at killing prisoners; it continues to withhold their bodies and deepens the crime through sham “investigations” in which the judiciary colludes, with the aim of entrenching policies that lead to the slow execution of prisoners.

With the continuation of daily crimes, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, as thousands of prisoners are held in conditions lacking the minimum requirements for life and are subjected to systematic violations including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assaults, medical crimes, and the spread of infectious diseases—foremost among them scabies, which has once again spread widely—alongside unprecedentedly harsh policies of deprivation and confiscation.

Field executions that targeted dozens of detainees confirm the criminal nature of the occupation system. Images of prisoners’ bodies handed over after the so-called ceasefire reveal the scale of field crimes committed against them, in addition to serious and undisclosed information about the numbers of those who were executed.

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation’s prison administration fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Za‘oul, and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold the occupation’s leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people.

They issued an urgent appeal to free people around the world to stop the systematic genocide against prisoners, to release thousands of detainees arbitrarily held, and to work seriously to impose clear international sanctions that isolate the occupation, restore the international human rights system to its fundamental role for which it was established, end the appalling state of paralysis that has afflicted it during the genocidal war, and put an end to the immunity that “Israel” continues to enjoy due to the support of international powers that treat it as an entity above the law and accountability.

It is noted that the number of Palestinian political prisoners has exceeded 9,300 people, in addition to hundreds of detainees held in camps belonging to the occupation army, including more than 50 female prisoners and approximately 350 children, while the number of administrative detainees held without trial or charge, reached 3,368 people as of last November.