Three Gaza captives die in Zionist regime's prisons

According to a joint statement issued Thursday, the martyrs are: Tayseer Saeed Al-Abed Sabbaba, 60, Khamees Shukri Ashour, 44, and Khalil Ahmad Khalil Haniyeh, 35.

The family of Tayseer Sabbaba was officially notified via the Israeli organization “HaMoked” following a response from the Zionist regime’s army. Zionist regime also confirmed the deaths of Ashour and Haniyeh.

According to the information, Sabbaba died on December 31, 2024, two months after his arrest. Ashour died on February 8, 2024, just one day after being detained, and Haniyeh died on December 25, 2024, approximately one year after his arrest.

The statement noted that all three prisoners left behind families, Sabbaba was the father of nine children, while Ashour and Haniyeh each had four children.

The authority and the PPS emphasized that these deaths are part of a growing list of detainees who have died in Israeli custody since the start of the ongoing genocide. The causes include torture, starvation, denial of medical care, sexual violence, and deliberate mistreatment.

The Hamas Movement mourned the deaths and urged immediate international intervention to force Israel to reveal the fate of the forcibly disappeared, return the bodies of those who died in custody, and hold perpetrators accountable for these brutal crimes.

In a press release, Hamas described the treatment of detainees as “barbaric,” citing ongoing torture, medical neglect, starvation, physical assaults, and degrading detention conditions that violate human dignity.

Hamas further warned of the grave danger posed by systematic torture, intentional starvation, deadly medical negligence, and various forms of abuse inside Israeli prisons. It called on the United Nations and human rights organizations to fulfill their responsibilities and open an international investigation into Israel’s crimes against detainees, including extrajudicial executions and acts of torture that have resulted in dozens of deaths in prisons and interrogation centers.

The Movement also urged all possible pressure be exerted on Israel to end its prison abuses, which blatantly violate international conventions and laws.

According to documentation by prisoners’ rights groups, the number of detainee deaths since the beginning of the current war has surpassed 100. Among them, 84 have been officially identified, including 50 detainees from Gaza. This brings the total number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli custody since 1967 to 321.

The Prisoners’ Authority and the PPS held Israel fully responsible for the deaths and urged the international human rights community to take action to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes. They condemned the culture of impunity afforded to Israel by the United States and others, an impunity that has peaked during the current genocide.

The report noted that the vast majority of captives are held without trial, either under arbitrary administrative detention or designated as “unlawful combatants.” As of last November, there were 3,368 administrative detainees and 1,205 labeled as “unlawful combatants,” not including all those arrested in Gaza.