The General Authority for Civil Affairs announced on Saturday the martyrdom of Palestinian prisoner Marwan Fathi Hussein Harzallah inside Israeli occupation prisons. The authority clarified that it had informed the relevant official bodies, including the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, of the details of the martyrdom of the 54-year-old prisoner.
Human rights sources reported that the martyr Harzallah, a resident of Nablus city in the northern West Bank, died in 'Megiddo' prison, located in the northern occupied territories. The occupation had arrested Harzallah on January 8, 2026, where he suffered from harsh detention conditions coinciding with the escalation of systematic violations against detainees.
With Harzallah's death, the number of martyrs of the Palestinian prisoner movement whose identities have been announced since the start of the genocide war in October 2023 rises to 89 martyrs. Statistics indicate that among these martyrs, 53 detainees from the Gaza Strip died as a result of torture and deliberate medical negligence.
Historical data from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society indicates that the total number of martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 has reached approximately 326 martyrs. These figures are limited to martyrs whose identities have been verified and whose martyrdom circumstances have been documented by specialized human rights institutions, amid fears of a larger undeclared number.
For its part, the Prisoners' Information Office considered Harzallah's martyrdom a new link in the chain of systematic killing and enforced disappearance crimes practiced by the occupation authorities. The office affirmed that these practices come within a policy aimed at physically liquidating prisoners through continuous torture and abuse away from international oversight.
Palestinian sources stressed that these crimes amount to war crimes that require urgent international action to hold the occupation leaders accountable. They pointed out that the shameful international silence provides the occupation with political and judicial cover to continue its policies of starvation and deliberate medical negligence against thousands of detainees.
In a related context, prisoner institutions warned of the danger of the Palestinian prisoners' execution bill recently passed in the Israeli Knesset. The institutions described this legislation as an unprecedented escalation that directly threatens the lives of prisoners and disregards all international humanitarian laws and conventions.
The Knesset's National Security Committee had approved the bill in its final reading, in preparation for its presentation to the General Assembly for a final vote next week. This law aims to legalize direct killings of prisoners, which portends the most dangerous phase for the fate of Palestinian detainees in prisons.
These developments coincide with the ongoing widespread Israeli attacks in the West Bank, which have resulted in the martyrdom of 1137 Palestinians and the injury of thousands of others since October 2023. Arrest campaigns have also peaked, with the number of detainees reaching approximately 22,000 Palestinians, living in conditions lacking the most basic human necessities.
Human rights organizations called on the international community and humanitarian institutions to assume their legal and moral responsibilities to stop these escalating violations. They called for the necessity of sending international investigation committees to examine the conditions inside Israeli prisons and to work for the release of prisoners who face the daily risk of death.
The death of martyr Harzallah inside prisons adds to the continuous record of occupation crimes against prisoners, as part of a systematic killing and enforced disappearance policy.
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Martyrdom of prisoner Marwan Harzallah in Megiddo prison and the rising list of martyrs of the prisoner movement