Palestinian political prisoner dies after Israel deny medical treatment

The latest crime by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian political prisoners has been the killing of 22 year old Ahmad Hatem Mohammad Khdeirat.

Ahmad Khdeirat: killed by Israel

Khdeirat suffered from chronic diabetes but was denied medical treatment in prison

Ahmad Khdeirat, who was from the Hebron area of the Southern occupied West Bank, died as a result of deliberate medical negligence, practiced against him by the Israeli occupation’s prison administration.

He was arrested in May, 2024, and held without charge or trial despite his chronic diabetes, and was placed in inhumane conditions in the notorious Naqab Prison for most of his detention.

In recent months, according to the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Khdeirat’s health severely deteriorated after he contracted scabies skin disease, which caused intense itching and repeated seizures. He also suffered from severe hunger episodes, dangerously low blood sugar levels because of his diabetes, and had extreme difficulty moving around. His weight dropped to about 40 kilogrammes. A lawyer who visited him in August, said Ahmad Khdeirat had been unable to get out of bed for two months.

78 identified Palestinian prisoners killed by Israel since October 2023

Ahmad Khdeirat’s intentional killing by the Israeli occupation, brings the death toll of Palestinian political prisoners to 78, since the beginning of the genocide, with this number including only those whose identities have been confirmed, amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance affecting dozens of detainees.

Not a month goes by without a new death being recorded among the prisoners, and the number of martyrs is only expected to rise. Thousands are detained in conditions lacking the most basic requirements for life, with infectious diseases spreading, and systematic crimes such as torture, sexual assault, and starvation rife.

Palestinian Prisoner’s rights groups are calling for the international community to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people, and for sanctions to be imposed so as to isolate the Israeli regime and restore the role of the human rights system, while putting an end to the exceptional impunity that is granted to the Israeli occupation by international powers.

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