Ramallah - Saba:
The Palestinian Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Prisoners' Club announced late on Sunday the martyrdom of minor detainee Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmed (17 years old) from the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, in Megiddo Prison.
In a joint statement, they explained that his martyrdom adds another martyr to the list of those who have died as a result of the systematic crimes perpetrated by the prison system in an unprecedented manner since the start of the war of extermination on October 7, 2023. The war on prisoners represents another aspect of the genocide.
They stated that the minor martyr, Walid Ahmed, was arrested on September 30, 2024, and remains detained to this day. The circumstances of his martyrdom have not yet been confirmed.
The Prisoners' Authority and the Prisoners' Club clarified that the minor Walid is the (63) martyr to have been killed since the beginning of the war of extermination, and that only those whose identities are known, including at least (40) from Gaza. This makes this the bloodiest phase in the history of the prisoners' movement since 1967.
This brings the number of martyrs from the prisoners' movement whose identities are known since 1967 to (300), noting that there are dozens of martyrs from Gaza detainees who are subject to enforced disappearance. The number of martyr prisoners whose bodies are being held has also risen to (72), including (61) since the beginning of the war.
They added that the case of the martyrdom of the minor detainee Ahmed constitutes a new crime in the record of the Zionist system of brutality, which has reached its peak since the beginning of the war of extermination.
They emphasized that the rising number of martyrs among prisoners and detainees will take a more dangerous turn as more time passes for thousands of prisoners and detainees to be held in enemy prisons, and as they continue to be subjected to systematic crimes, most notably torture, starvation, assaults of all kinds, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to serious and contagious diseases, in addition to policies of theft and deprivation—unprecedented in their scope.
They held the enemy fully responsible for his martyrdom.
They renewed their call for the international human rights community to move forward with effective decisions to hold the enemy's leaders accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against the Palestinian people.
They also called for sanctions to be imposed on the enemy that would place it in a state of clear international isolation, restore the human rights community to its fundamental role, put an end to the horrific state of impotence it has endured during the war of extermination, and end the exceptional immunity granted by the former colonial powers to the Zionist enemy, which considers them above accountability, accountability, and punishment.
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