Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Guwadreh dies in Israeli custody
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Palestinian detainee Mohammad Guwadreh, 63, from Jenin, has died in Israeli custody amid mounting reports of torture and field executions inside prisons.
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Martyred Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadreh in an undated picture (Social media)
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced on Sunday the death of Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadreh, 63, from Jenin, who passed away inside the “Gannot” Prison (formerly Nafha and Ramon), where he had been detained since August 6, 2024.
According to the joint statement, Ghawadreh was the father of administrative detainee Sami Ghawadreh and the father of freed prisoner Shadi Ghawadreh, who was released earlier this year as part of the latest prisoner exchange deal and later deported to Egypt.
The statement said Ghawadreh’s death comes amid an ongoing campaign of incitement led by the Israeli occupation authorities, spearheaded by extremist Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who continues to push for legislation authorizing the execution of Palestinian prisoners and boasts publicly of his crimes against them.
It also pointed to a sharp escalation in Israeli prison abuses following the recent ceasefire, citing testimony from freed detainees as clear evidence of torture, executions, and systematic mistreatment. The organizations said that bodies of martyrs recently handed over to Palestinian authorities displayed unmistakable signs of abuse, confirming what they described as “field executions inside Israeli prisons.”
Rights groups: deaths in custody amount to war crimes
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for Ghawadreh’s death and for what it described as daily war crimes against detainees, in violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.
The office urged international human rights institutions to take immediate and effective action to halt killings and torture in Israeli prisons and to impose clear sanctions on the Israeli regime for its violations.
With Ghawadreh’s death, the number of martyrs from the Palestinian prisoner movement since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza has risen to 81 documented deaths, while dozens of detainees remain missing amid ongoing enforced disappearances.
According to the Commission of Detainees, the total number of documented prisoner martyrs since 1967 has reached 318, including 89 bodies still withheld by the Israeli occupation, 78 of whom have been martyred since the war began.
'Israel' turning Palestinian prisonns into death camps
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Saturday held the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the escalating war crimes against Palestinian prisoners in its jails and detention centers, particularly those from Gaza.
In a statement, the PFLP condemned the “systematic policy of physical and psychological torture, deliberate medical neglect, and extrajudicial executions” of detainees arrested alive, describing these acts as part of a “planned campaign of extermination” aimed at crushing the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.
The statement also denounced the continued withholding of martyrs’ bodies and their burial in the so-called “cemeteries of numbers,” calling it a double crime and a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and moral principles.
According to the PFLP, these abuses reflect an official policy within the Israeli ruling establishment to transform prisons into arenas of slow death, overseen directly by “fascist figures” in the government, foremost among them the occupation’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Martyred detainees bound, blindfolded, tortured
Most of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs returned from "Israel" were found blindfolded, with their hands and feet bound, Gaza’s forensic department spokesperson revealed.
These, he said, are compelling evidence that the Palestinian detainees were brutally tortured before being executed.
He urged all international organizations to urgently enter the Gaza Strip to document these violations by Israeli occupation forces and ensure accountability for crimes committed against Palestinians.
