Prisoner Arafat Yasser Hamdan (25 years old) from the town of Beit Sira, Ramallah district, was dead today, Tuesday, in “Ofer” prison, according to what was confirmed by the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, following the announcement by the occupation prisons service of the death of a prisoner in “ Ofer is the second  death in the Detainee's National Movement in two days, coinciding with the war launched by the occupation against the besieged Gaza Strip, following the October 7 operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement.

The occupation did not specify the identity of the dead prisoner, but merely said that he is a resident of the northern occupied West Bank, born in 1998, and that he was recently arrested and handed over to the occupation prisons service. The occupation claimed, in a statement, that “as is the case with any event of this kind, the circumstances will be examined.”

The occupation claimed that the prisoner "felt unwell and was transferred to the prison clinic for examinations, where the prison doctor declared his death," in light of the fierce and retaliatory campaign launched by the occupation authorities against the captive national movement, since the start of the war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Later, the Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Detainees reported the martyrdom of prisoner Arafat Yasser Hamdan (25 years old), from the town of Beit Sira, Ramallah District, in Ofer Prison. The occupation had arrested him the day before yesterday. The Commission confirmed that “the occupation began a systematic assassination operation.” against the prisoners, in light of the comprehensive aggression against our people and our prisoners.”

This comes the day after the martyrdom of the leader of the Hamas movement, Omar Daraghmeh (58 years old), in the Israeli occupation prisons after his arrest in the wake of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, as a result of the torture he was subjected to in the occupation detention centers. The Hamas movement described what happened against him as an “assassination operation.” .

The Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the occupation arrested Daraghmeh with his son Hamza on the second day of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation launched by Al-Qassam fighters on the 7th of this October. He was transferred to administrative detention for a period of 6 months, as was his son Hamza. He is a former prisoner.

The authority and the club added, in a joint statement, that a court session was held for him yesterday, via video technology, while the prisoner was languishing in Megiddo prison, and in the presence of his lawyer, Ashraf Abu Sneineh, in the “Ofer” military court, who confirmed that he spoke with him and asked him about his health, He replied that he was in good health.

The Prisoners' Commission and the Prisoners' Club expressed doubt about the occupation's story, which said that Daraghmeh had suffered a heart attack. They described what happened with Daraghmeh as an "assassination" operation, and pointed out that "whoever kills thousands of our people in front of the world will not hesitate to assassinate the prisoners in his prisons."

The announcement of Daraghmeh's death came in an official statement issued by the Israeli Prison Service, identical to the statement issued following the death of the second prisoner, today, which stated that "one of the detainees in Megiddo Prison felt unwell, and went to the prison clinic to undergo examinations."