Announcing the Martyrdom of Detainee Hamza Abdullah Adwan from Gaza

SadaNews - The Prisoners and Released Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Club reported today, Sunday, the martyrdom of the detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdul Hadi Adwan (67 years old), from the Gaza Strip, noting that his family had previously received another response regarding his martyrdom.

According to the latest response received by the two institutions from the occupation army, as stated in their announcement, martyr Adwan ascended on 9/9/2025, without further details.

The authority and the club clarified that martyr Adwan was arrested at the military checkpoint called "Civil Administration Checkpoint" on 12/11/2024. He is married and a father of nine children, two of whom were martyred before the war.

According to his family, he was arrested by the occupation forces despite suffering from health issues, including heart diseases, and was in need of medical care and continuous follow-up.

The authority and the club added that martyr Adwan is one of more than a hundred prisoners who have been martyred in Israeli occupation prisons since the onset of the genocide, with the identities of 87 of them announced, due to widespread torture, starvation, medical crimes, sexual assaults, as well as a series of crimes including deprivation, theft, abuse, humiliation, and detention in degrading conditions of human dignity.

It pointed out that many martyr prisoners from Gaza are still subjected to enforced disappearance, alongside dozens who have been field-executed, as photos of the bodies of detainees delivered after the ceasefire have served as conclusive evidence of the systematic executions carried out by the occupation army against the detainees.

With the martyrdom of detainee Adwan, the number of announced martyrs from the Palestinian prisoners movement since the genocide has risen to 87 martyrs, including 51 detainees from Gaza, bringing the total number of martyrs from the Palestinian prisoners movement since 1967 to 324 martyrs, whose identities are known to the institutions.

The Prisoners and Released Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Prisoner's Club held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Adwan, and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes committed against the detainees and the Palestinian people, and to end the state of exception from accountability and prosecution granted to the Israeli occupation system over many decades, which peaked with the genocide, despite the overwhelming evidence of the occupation committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the detainees.

In this context, the authority and the club confirmed that the crimes that the occupation prison system continues to commit against the detainees are an integral part of the genocide war, through which the occupation system seeks to implement slow executions, making this stage the bloodiest in the history of the Palestinian prisoners movement.

They added that this occurs while the occupation seeks to legislate a law for the execution of Palestinian detainees, transforming the policy of execution carried out outside the framework of law into a legalized and legitimate policy, knowing that the vast majority of detainees in the occupation prisons are currently held without trial, either due to arbitrary administrative detention or those classified by the occupation authorities as "illegal combatants."

According to the data available to the institutions, as of January 2023, the number of detainees in the occupation prisons has exceeded 9,300, including 3,385 administrative detainees and 1,237 classified as "illegal combatants," which means that the vast majority of detainees are held without charges and without trials.