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Palestinian inmate dies in Israeli jail due to deliberate medical negligence: Advocacy groups

Monday, 21 April 2025 7:02 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 21 April 2025 7:02 AM ]

Palestinian prisoner Nasser Khalil Radaydeh (Photo via social media)

A wounded Palestinian in his late 40s, held at an Israeli detention center in the occupied West Bank, has died due to deliberate medical negligence, Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups say.

The Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) announced in a joint statement on Sunday that 49-year-old Nasser Khalil Radaydeh had passed away at Hadassah Medical Center in al-Quds.

The statement added that Radaydeh, a resident of al-Ubeidiya town east of Bethlehem, had been transferred to the medical facility from Ofer Prison the previous day.

The Palestinian detainee was arrested on September 18, 2023, after being shot by Israeli forces during a raid in the West Bank. He was initially transferred to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in al-Quds in serious condition following his detention and severe injuries.

Despite showing signs of stabilization, he later died at Hadassah Hospital.

With the death of Radaydeh, the number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023 has risen to 65.

The total number of identified deaths among prisoners and detainees since 1967 surged to 302 as well. Israeli authorities continue to withhold the bodies of 74 of them.

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Hamas reaction

The Hamas resistance movement, for its part, mourned the death of Radaydeh in Israeli detention, condemning the occupying Tel Aviv regime over "slow killing" of imprisoned Palestinians.

The Gaza-based group described the incarceration conditions imposed by prisoners on detainees in Israeli jails as “war crimes,” calling for international action to pressure Israel to end its violations against the detainees and hold its leaders accountable for their actions.

Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their illegal detention.

Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.

According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, a number of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.

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