Palestinian detainee Mohammad Mounir Moussa, 37, from Beit Lahm, passed away at the Israeli Soroka Hospital on Friday, announced the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).

In a joint statement on Sunday, the Commission and the PPS said that Moussa had been detained by Israeli occupation authorities since April 20, 2023. It was his first time being detained, and according to available information, he had been held in Ramon Prison and remained in custody without trial.

The martyr was married and a father to three young daughters.

The statement noted that before his detention, Moussa did not suffer from any chronic health conditions, and there is insufficient information regarding the circumstances of his martyrdom.

However, the Commission and the PPS emphasized that systematic crimes by the occupation, including torture, medical neglect, and starvation, have been the central causes behind the martyrdom of 40 prisoners and detainees since October 7, 2023.

With the announcement of Moussa's death, the number of prisoners and detainees who have been martyred in Israeli prisons after October 7 rose to 41, including 24 from the Gaza Strip, while the number of martyrs from the Palestinian Captive Movement rose to 278 since 1967, the statement indicated.

In addition, dozens of martyrs from Gaza’s detainees remain unidentified, as the occupation continues to conceal their identities, the statement added.

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It stressed that this number represents the highest historical figure compared to previous years in which many detainees were martyred.

The Commission and the PPS further explained that since the start of the genocidal on Gaza, Israeli forces have committed unprecedented systematic crimes in both scale and intensity, continuing to carry them out in prisons and military camps "with the aim of killing and eliminating detainees, driven by political orders from the highest echelons of the occupation's regime."

"One prominent figure in this system is the fascist [Police Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir, who continues to commit crimes against the detainees, boasting of them in front of cameras and even documenting them for public dissemination to satisfy the vengeful desires of Israeli society and to incite against the detainees," the statement read.

The two bodies warned that the occupation’s continued crimes, which have reached their peak since the beginning of the genocidal war, will inevitably lead to the martyrdom of more detainees, amid the "horrifying global inaction" in the face of these crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people.

The Commission and the PPS added that Moussa's martyrdom adds to the decades-long record of the occupation’s crimes.

More than 10,100 prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, along with hundreds of detainees from Gaza in military camps, "face horrific and terrifying crimes that threaten their lives around the clock, all as part of the ongoing genocidal war," the statement highlighted.

The two bodies also held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for Moussa's death and called on international human rights organizations, "which have historically failed in the face of the occupation’s crimes and brutality," to reclaim their role and assert their will in holding the occupation’s leaders accountable for their crimes and putting an end to them.

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