The Civil Affairs Authority informed the Commission of Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, of the death of prisoner Nasser Khalil Radaideh (49 years old) from the town of Al-Ubeidiya, in the Israeli Hadassah Hospital, after he was transferred yesterday from Ofer Prison. He is added to the list of martyrs of the prisoner movement who have risen as a result of the organized crimes practiced by the Israeli occupation prison system in an unprecedented manner since the beginning of the ongoing genocide.

Radaideh had been detained since September 18, 2023, after being shot by the occupation forces at the time.

The committee and the club said that Radaideh is the second martyr among prisoners to be declared dead in occupation prisons within four days. He is married and has seven children. He spent a period in Shaare Zedek Hospital following his arrest and severe injury, but his health later stabilized, according to information available to the institutions and based on visits conducted to him at the time.

With the death of detainee Radaideh, the number of martyred prisoners and detainees since the beginning of the war of extermination has risen to 65, whose identities are known, amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance. Among them are at least 40 martyrs from Gaza, making this the bloodiest phase in the history of the prisoners' movement and our people. Thus, the number of martyrs from the prisoners' movement whose identities are known since 1967 has reached 302 martyrs to date, while the number of martyred prisoners whose bodies are still being held has reached 74 martyrs, including 63 martyrs since the beginning of the extermination.

The Commission and the Club stressed, in a joint statement, that the increasing number of martyrs among prisoners and detainees will take a more dangerous turn with the continued detention of thousands in the occupation’s prisons, and their continued exposure to systematic crimes, most notably: torture, starvation, assaults of various kinds, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to their infection with serious and contagious diseases, such as scabies, in addition to the unprecedented policies of theft and deprivation.

The statement added that the martyrdom of detainee Radaideh constitutes a new crime added to the record of Israeli brutality, which has perpetrated all forms of crimes against prisoners with the aim of killing them. These crimes constitute another aspect of the ongoing genocide.

The Commission and the Club held the occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Radaideh, and renewed their demand for the international human rights system to move forward in taking effective decisions to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes committed against our people, and to impose sanctions on the occupation that would force it into clear international isolation, and restore the human rights system to its fundamental role for which it exists, and put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that afflicted it during the war of extermination, and end the state of exceptional immunity that the world has granted to the occupying state, considering it above accountability, accountability and punishment.