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- Mohammad Ghawadra was detained in Ganot Prison since his arrest on Aug. 6, 2024
- His son, Shadi Ghawadra, was recently released from prison during one of the Israeli-Hamas truces and deported to Egypt
LONDON: Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadra, 63, from Jenin in the occupied West Bank, has become the 81st detainee to die in Israeli imprisonment since October 2023.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said that Ghawadra was detained in Ganot Prison since his arrest on Aug. 6, 2024.
His son, Shadi Ghawadra, was recently released from prison during one of the Israeli-Hamas truces and deported to Egypt, while his other son, Sami Ghawadra, remains in administrative detention, which grants authorities the power to imprison people without charge or trial.
His death comes as Israeli lawmakers prepare to vote on a law that would enable the execution of Palestinian prisoners, a measure advocated by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The killing of Ghawadra adds to the series of complex crimes perpetrated by the occupation regime against prisoners, aimed at their slow death and psychological and physical destruction,” the commission and the PPS said in a statement.
The two organizations accused Israel of carrying out “systematic torture and extrajudicial killings” within the prisons and added that numerous bodies of Palestinians from Gaza handed over as part of the ceasefire agreement showed signs of torture.
Netanyahu faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over allegations of war crimes in Gaza. Israel faces accusations from the UN and Western officials of committing acts of genocide in the Palestinian coastal territory.