Palestinian NGO says teen dies in Israeli prison
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Prisoners Club advocacy group said Monday that a teenage inmate died in an Israeli jail, decrying a spike in deaths in custody since the start of the Gaza war.
In a statement, the group announced the death of Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, 17, in Meggido prison in northern Israel under unknown circumstances.
Israel's Prison Service said in a statement that a 17-year-old prisoner had died Sunday at the facility.
'His health condition is covered by medical confidentiality,' the statement said.
One of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli custody, Ahmad was the 63rd Palestinian inmate to die in an Israeli jail since the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Prisoners Club.
The advocacy group said Ahmad, from the town of Silwad near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, was detained on September 30. It was not clear what led to his arrest.
The Prisoners Club said that a 'growing number' of detainees have died in Israeli custody due to 'systematic abuses' throughout the Gaza war.
'This period has been the deadliest in the history of the Palestinian prisoners' movement since 1967,' it said, referring to the year Israel seized Palestinian territories including the West Bank in a war.
Rights groups including Israel's B'Tselem have documented numerous deaths of Palestinians in Israeli prisons during the Gaza war.
B'Tselem has also reported worsening detention conditions for Palestinians, including 'systematic mistreatment' and 'torture,' which Israeli authorities have denied.
The Prisoners Club said in September there were at least 250 Palestinian minors in Israeli custody.
According to non-government group Defense for Children International Palestine, 'each year approximately 500-700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years old, are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system. The most common charge is stone-throwing.'
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