The death of detainee Mohammed Abu Habl from Gaza in the occupation's prisons.

The Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club reported the martyrdom of elderly prisoner Muhammad Ibrahim Hussein Abu Habl (70 years old) from Gaza on January 10, 2025.

The Commission and the Prisoners' Club indicated in a statement issued Wednesday that the case of the martyr Abu Habl adds to the record of the Israeli system of brutality, which operates around the clock through a series of organized crimes to kill prisoners and detainees. These crimes constitute another aspect of the ongoing genocide and an extension of it.

The Commission and the Club added that the case of the Gaza detainees remains the most prominent, reflecting an unprecedented level of crimes and atrocities committed against them, most notably torture, starvation, medical crimes, and sexual assaults. Over the past months, the testimonies and statements of detainees from Gaza have been the harshest and most severe in terms of the level of detail of the complex crimes committed against them, in real time.

The Commission and the Club noted that the detainee, Abu Habl, is married and has 11 children. He was arrested on 11/12/2024, in front of the checkpoint known as the (Civil Administration) checkpoint.

The Commission and the Club added that with the martyrdom of the prisoner Abu Habl, the number of martyred prisoners and detainees who have been killed after the genocide rises to at least (71) martyrs, including (45) detainees from Gaza, whose identities are known only, while the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 documented by the institutions rises to (308) whose identities are also known, so that this stage constitutes the bloodiest in the history of the prisoner movement, and the most severe in terms of detention conditions.

The Commission and the Club explained that the responses received by the institutions from the occupation army remain limited to the army's narrative, in light of the continued detention of the martyrs' bodies and the failure to disclose the circumstances of their martyrdom. It is worth noting that the army has repeatedly attempted to manipulate these responses by giving the institutions different answers, and some institutions have even gone to court to obtain a response that would resolve the fate of the detainee. It was emphasized that torture crimes constituted the primary reason for the martyrdom of the vast majority of the martyrs after the genocide, in addition to the escalating medical crimes, the crime of starvation, and the crimes of rape.

They stressed that the rate of increasing numbers of martyrs among prisoners and detainees is taking a more dangerous turn with the passage of more time on the detention of thousands of prisoners and detainees in the occupation’s prisons, and their continued exposure on an instant basis to systematic crimes, most notably torture, starvation, assaults of all kinds, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to their infection with serious and contagious diseases, most notably scabies, in addition to the policies of deprivation and deprivation - unprecedented in their level.

The institutions held the occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of the elderly detainee Abu Habl. They also renewed their demand for the international human rights system to open an impartial international investigation into the martyrdom of dozens of prisoners and detainees since the beginning of the genocide, and to move forward with taking effective decisions to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions on the occupation that would place it in a state of clear international isolation, and restore the human rights system to its fundamental role for which it was created, and put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that it has been afflicted with during the war of genocide, and to end the state of exceptional immunity that the world has granted to the occupying state as if it is above accountability, accountability, and punishment.

It is noteworthy that the total number of prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons, until the beginning of June 2025, amounted to more than (10,400) prisoners, and they are only those detained in the prisons affiliated with the occupation prison administration. This data does not include the detainees detained in the camps affiliated with the occupation army. Among the number of prisoners are (49) female prisoners, more than (440) children, (3,562) administrative detainees, and (2,214) detainees from Gaza, whom the occupation prison administration classifies as (illegal combatants).