Number of Palestinian prisoners martyred increases to 300

The Prisoners and Freedmen Affairs Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners Club announced the martyrdom of Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmed, an 18-year-old Palestinian prisoner from the town of Silwad in the Ramallah and Beira governorates, in the Zionist prison of Megiddo.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners Information Office, Walid is the 300th Palestinian prisoner to be martyred in the prisons of the Zionist regime and the 63rd martyr since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023; 40 of these prisoners are from Gaza.

The statement of the aforementioned institution states that this stage is the bloodiest period in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement since 1967, so that the bodies of 72 martyrs remain in the possession of the Zionist regime, 61 of whom have been in possession since the beginning of the war.

The Palestinian Prisoners Information Office further emphasized: We hold the occupying regime fully responsible for the martyrdom of Walid and all Palestinian prisoners, and we emphasize that medical negligence and systematic torture constitute war crimes.

The organization called on all international and human rights organizations to take immediate action to expose the violation of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and stop the policy of arbitrary executions.

The Palestinian Prisoners Information Office warned: The silence of Arab countries and the international community encourages the Zionist regime to continue its crimes against Palestinian prisoners.

At the same time, the Islamic resistance movement Hamas emphasized that the Zionist regime continues to commit its crimes against our heroic prisoners in its prisons, and the latest example of these crimes was the martyrdom of the teenage prisoner, Walid Khaled Ahmed from the town of Silwad in the Ramallah governorate, who died in Megiddo prison as a result of torture and deliberate medical neglect.

The movement announced in a statement: “While we offer our condolences for the martyrdom of this heroic prisoner, we emphasize that what our prisoners are suffering in the occupation prisons, from torture and repression, is a full-fledged war crime that violates all international and humanitarian treaties and reflects the occupation government’s extreme policies in the gradual killing of prisoners through silent executions.”

Hamas continued: “We warn that the continuation of these crimes against the prisoners will not go unanswered, and our nation and resistance will continue to adhere to their pledge to the free prisoners, whose will against the oppression of the occupation will not be broken, and whose certainty of their imminent freedom will never be lost.”

The statement concluded: “We call on all human rights institutions and international organizations to fulfill their responsibility and take immediate action to stop the occupation’s crimes against the prisoners. We also call on our heroic people in the West Bank to continue their protests and support, stand with the prisoners, and defend the just rights of the Palestinian people.”