Martyrdom of a Prisoner from Jenin Inside the Occupation Prisons

SadaNews - The General Authority for Civil Affairs has informed both the Palestinian Prisoners and Released Prisoners Commission and the Prisoner's Club of the martyrdom of prisoner Muhammad Hussein Muhammad Ghawadra (63 years old) from Jenin.

Occupation forces arrested the martyr Ghawadra on 6/8/2024, and he has been detained since then in "Januot" prison (previously Nafha and Ramon). He is the father of the administrative detainee Sami Ghawadra and the father of the freed prisoner Shadi Ghawadra, who was expelled to Egypt after being released as part of a prisoner exchange deal that occurred earlier this year.

The Authority and the Prisoner's Club confirmed that the martyrdom of prisoner Muhammad Ghawadra comes amid the ongoing systematic incitement led by the occupation authorities, represented by the fascist minister "Itamar Ben Gvir," who seeks to enact a law for the execution of prisoners and boasts of his crimes against them, at a time when Palestinian prisoners are subjected to one of the harshest forms of comprehensive and continuous genocide within Israeli prisons.

The murder of martyr Ghawadra adds to the series of complex crimes committed by the occupation system against prisoners, aiming to kill them slowly and destroy them psychologically and physically.

The two institutions indicated that following the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli prison administration escalated its crimes and violations, as testimonies and statements from released prisoners provided irrefutable evidence of the complex torture crimes and field executions inside prisons, which were clearly reflected in the bodies of the martyrs handed over as part of the agreement.

With the martyrdom of detainee Muhammad Ghawadra, the number of martyrs from the prisoner movement since the start of the genocide war rises to (81) martyrs whose identities have been recognized, amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance affecting dozens of detainees.

This current phase in the history of the prisoner movement marks the bloodiest period since 1967, as the number of martyrs known since 1967 until today has reached (318) martyrs, according to documented data from prisoner institutions. The number of prisoners whose corpses are held by the occupation, before and after the war, has risen to (89), including (78) after the war.

The two institutions stressed that the accelerating pace of martyrdom among prisoners and detainees in this unprecedented manner confirms that the Israeli prison system is continuing to implement a policy of slow killing, as hardly a month passes without a new martyr emerging from the ranks of prisoners.

With the daily crimes continuing inside prisons, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, given that thousands of prisoners are held in conditions lacking the most basic elements of life, exposing them to systematic violations including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assaults, medical crimes, and the spread of infectious diseases, especially scabies, which has returned to spread among them, in addition to unprecedented levels of deprivation and robbery.

The two institutions added that the field executions targeting dozens of detainees confirm the criminal nature of the occupation system, as images of the bodies of prisoners who were delivered after the ceasefire provide conclusive evidence of the extent of the crimes committed against them in the field.

The Prisoners and Released Prisoners Commission and the Prisoner's Club held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Muhammad Ghawadra and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for the war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people.

They also demanded the imposition of clear international sanctions that isolate the occupation, restore the essential role of the international human rights system for which it was established, and end the terrifying state of paralysis that it has suffered during the genocide war, in addition to ending the impunity that "Israel" still enjoys due to the support of international powers that treat it as a state above the law and accountability.