Jenin: The Civil Affairs Commission has informed both the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) that a Palestinian administrative detainee has died at Israel's Soroka Medical Center.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the 22-year-old detainee, Lo'ay Faisal Nasr-Allah, from Jenin, was transferred to Soroka hospital from the Negev Prison, where he died today. His death adds to the growing list of Palestinians who have died as a result of the intensified and systematic crimes committed by the Israeli prison system since the onset of the ongoing genocide. Nasr-Allah's family stated that he had no prior health issues before his detention.
Nasr-Allah was detained and held under administrative detention on March 26, 2024. With his death, the number of prisoners and detainees who have died since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 73, whose identities are known. This period has been the deadliest in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement since 1967. Consequently, the total number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 has risen to 310.
Many detainees from Gaza remain subject to the crime of enforced disappearance. The Commission and PPS emphasized that the rising number of deaths among detainees will continue to grow as more Palestinians remain in Israeli prisons, where they face daily abuse, including torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual violence, and conditions that lead to severe and contagious diseases. Additionally, there is an unprecedented level of deprivation and dispossession.
The Commission and PPS held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the death of Nasr-Allah. They reiterated their calls for the international human rights community to take decisive action to hold Israeli officials accountable for the ongoing war crimes committed against the Palestinian people. In a joint statement, they called for the imposition of sanctions to isolate Israel internationally and restore the role of the international human rights system, which has been severely weakened during the genocide. They also urged an end to the exceptional immunity Israel has been granted by colonial powers, which have allowed it to evade accountability and punishment.
