Jenin: The General Authority of Civil Affairs informed both the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) of the death of prisoner Mohammad Hussein Muhammad Ghawadra, 63, from Jenin. The Israeli occupation forces detained Ghawadra on August 6, 2024, and he remained detained ever since in Ganot Prison.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA, Ghawadra was the father of administrative detainee Sami Ghawadra and the father of former prisoner Shadi Ghawadra, who was deported to Egypt as part of a prisoner exchange deal earlier this year. The Commission and the PPS affirmed that Ghawadra’s death is amidst ongoing systematic incitement led by the occupation authorities. The incitement is represented by the minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who seeks to pass a law to execute prisoners and boasts about crimes against them. Palestinian prisoners are allegedly subjected to severe forms of a comprehensive and ongoing war of extermination inside Israeli prisons.
The killing of Ghawadra adds to a series of complex crimes claimed to be perpetrated by the occupation regime against prisoners, aimed at their slow death and psychological and physical destruction. The two organizations noted that following the ceasefire agreement, the occupation prison administration allegedly escalated its crimes and violations.
Testimonies and statements from released prisoners are cited as “irrefutable evidence of systematic torture and extrajudicial killings within the prisons,” a fact allegedly reflected in the bodies of martyrs handed over as part of the agreement. With the killing of detainee Muhammad Ghawadra, the number of identified slain prisoners since the beginning of the war of extermination rises to 81, while the crime of enforced disappearance continues to affect dozens of detainees.