DayofPal– 35-year-old Palestinian prisoner Musab Hani Haniyeh from Gaza, who was detained after October 7th, was tortured to death in Israeli custody.
Late Monday, the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Prisoners’ Club announced the death of Musab Hani Haniyeh citing sever torture and maltreatment against the detainee.
According to the organizations, Israeli authorities responded today to inquiries confirming Haniyeh’s death, which occurred on January 5, 2025.
However, they noted that Israel continues to withhold his body, as it has with many others, making independent verification impossible.
A husband and father to a nine-year-old son, Haniyeh was arrested from Hamad City on March 3, 2024, where he was having no prior health issues, as confirmed by his family. His death raises further concerns about methods of torture used against him in prison.
In a joint statement, the prisoner advocacy groups accused Israeli authorities of systematically concealing the fate of Palestinian detainees and manipulating information regarding their deaths.
They emphasized that responses about deceased prisoners come solely from the Israeli military, often accompanied by vague claims of “ongoing investigations,” which they argue serve as an attempt to avoid international accountability.
With Haniyeh’s death, the number of documented Palestinian prisoners killed in Israeli custody since the start of the ongoing war has risen to 59—the highest in history. Among them, at least 38 were from Gaza.
This brings the total number of known Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli detention since 1967 to 296, though many more from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared.
The organizations described Haniyeh’s death as yet another crime in Israel’s escalating campaign against Palestinian detainees, warning that the situation in Israeli prisons is becoming increasingly lethal.
They highlighted systematic torture, starvation, physical abuse, medical negligence, and sexual violence as methods used to break and torture prisoners.
Additionally, they accused Israel of deliberately creating conditions that lead to serious illnesses and deaths among detainees, including scabies.
“The alarming rise in the number of prisoners dying in custody will only get worse as thousands remain imprisoned under life-threatening conditions,” the statement warned.
Holding Israel fully responsible for Haniyeh’s death, the organizations renewed their call for the international legal community to take decisive action against Israeli war crimes.
They urged for punitive measures that would isolate Israel on the global stage and end its exceptional impunity, which they attributed to decades of Western protection shielding Israel from accountability.
As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza and beyond, the fate of Palestinian prisoners remains a stark reminder of the war’s brutality, one that the world can no longer afford to ignore.
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