The Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Prisoners' Club revealed new details about the case of the martyrdom of the detainee Moataz Abu Zneid (35 years old) from Dura, south of Hebron, who died the day before yesterday in the Israeli Soroka Hospital. According to his family, he did not suffer from any health problems.

The Prisoners Authority explained, based on the testimony of one of the prisoners who was with the detainee Abu Zneid in the prison (currently Rimon-Janot), that the martyr began suffering from scabies several months ago, and with the passage of time and the refusal of the prison administration to provide him with treatment, the scabies turned into boils with a very bad smell, and swellings began to appear in the extremities, with a sharp loss in weight, and his health continued to deteriorate until he lost the ability to eat, stand, and relieve himself.

He continued in his testimony: “Parts of his skin began to fall onto his bed, and we kept asking the administration many times to transfer him to the hospital, without response. On January 4, he lost consciousness, and two days later he was transferred to the hospital, and then we learned that he had entered a coma.”

The Commission and the Prisoners Club confirmed, in a joint statement, that what happened with the detainee Abu Zneid was a systematic medical crime, the aim of which was to liquidate the detainee Abu Zneid, as happened with dozens of detainees who have been martyred since the beginning of the war of extermination, numbering (55), and only their identities are known.

They pointed out that the case of detainee Abu Zneid is not the only case that is being liquidated through systematic medical crimes, including the prison administration’s deliberate provision of factors for the spread of scabies among prisoners, and the prison system’s deliberate failure to provide cleanliness and ventilation, and its deliberate removal of clothes from prisoners, and its deprivation of the simplest cleaning tools, in addition to the weak immunity that affected the vast majority of them due to the crime of starvation, which all contributed to the exacerbation of the disease among many prisoners. They recalled the case of martyr Muhammad Munir Musa from Bethlehem, who was martyred in October 2024, as he suffered from diabetes, and after contracting scabies, his health condition deteriorated, which led to his martyrdom. There is other information about some of the detainees from Gaza who were martyred recently, indicating that scabies was a central cause of their martyrdom.

They pointed out that scabies has not stopped spreading in prisons to this day, and there were dozens of testimonies from prisoners who were infected with the disease. These testimonies reflected how the prison system had turned the disease into a tool to torture and kill them.