Elderly Palestinian Prisoner Martyred in Occupation Prisons from Gaza

SadaNews - The Public Authority for Civil Affairs has informed both the Palestinian Prisoners and Released Prisoners Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners Club about the martyrdom of the elderly detainee, Kamel Muhammad Mahmoud al-Ajrami (69 years old) from Gaza, at the Israeli "Soroka" hospital on October 10, 2025, where he was held before being transferred to the hospital from "Negev" prison. It is worth noting that martyr al-Ajrami was arrested on October 25, 2024, and is married with six children.

The Commission and the Club confirmed that martyr al-Ajrami adds to the record of martyrs from the prisoner movement who have fallen within Israeli occupation prisons due to the systematic killings perpetrated by the Israeli prison system, which have escalated to unprecedented levels since the onset of the genocide war. The killings of prisoners represent another facet of this genocide, as the announcement of al-Ajrami's martyrdom comes just one day after the martyrdom of prisoner Mahmoud Abdullah from Jenin camp. The prisoner movement has not witnessed such a bloody phase in its history as it does today since the outbreak of the war.

The Prisoners' Authority and the Prisoners' Club emphasized that the crimes committed against prisoners are a direct extension of the genocide war, as confirmed by testimonies from hundreds of freed prisoners about torture, starvation, medical neglect, and sexual assaults. Testimonies from Gaza detainees are particularly horrific, reflecting an unprecedented level of brutality in the practices of the Israeli prison system.

The institutions added that the announcement of al-Ajrami's martyrdom comes at a time when the fascist minister "Ben Gvir" continues his calls for enacting a death penalty law for prisoners, tying his fascist government's fate to its approval.

With the martyrdom of al-Ajrami, the number of martyrs from the prisoner movement and detainees since the onset of the genocide war has risen to (80) martyrs, only those whose identities have been confirmed, amidst the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance affecting dozens of detainees. This phase witnesses the highest levels of bloodshed since 1967, with the documented number of martyrs from the prisoner movement reaching (317), while the number of corpses of prisoners held by the occupation is (88), including (77) whose bodies have been held since the war.

The institutions affirmed that the accelerating rate of martyrdom among prisoners and detainees in this unprecedented manner proves that the Israeli prison system is continuing its policy of slow death against them, as no month passes without a new martyr from their ranks. With the daily crimes continuing within prisons, the number of martyrs is likely to rise, given that thousands of prisoners are held under conditions lacking the minimum standards of life and are subjected to systematic violations including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assaults, medical neglect, and the spread of infectious diseases, chief among them scabies (scabiosis), in addition to unprecedented levels of looting and deprivation policies.
The institutions also referred to the field executions that have affected dozens of detainees, where the images of the corpses that were recently handed over after the ceasefire serve as damning evidence of the level of criminality exercised against them in the field.

The Prisoners' Authority and the Prisoners' Club held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee al-Ajrami, reiterating their call to the international rights system to take effective actions to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for the war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. The institutions demanded the imposition of clear international sanctions to isolate the occupation and restore the human rights system to its fundamental role for which it was established, ending the horrific paralysis it has suffered during the genocide war, and putting an end to the exceptional immunity that some international powers continue to grant the occupation, as if it were a state above the law and accountability.