Ramallah – SABA:
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority informed both the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club of the martyrdom of administrative detainee Luay Faisal Muhammad Nasrallah (22 years old) from Jenin, who passed away on Monday at Soroka Hospital in the Israeli entity after being transferred from Negev Prison. No further details have yet been released about the circumstances of his death.
The Commission and the Prisoners Club explained that Nasrallah had been held under administrative detention by the Israeli occupation authorities since March 26, 2024, and he now joins the list of martyrs of the prisoners’ movement—victims of systematic crimes committed by the Israeli prison system, particularly since the ongoing genocide began. These crimes include torture, medical negligence, and starvation.
They added that Negev Prison, where Nasrallah had been held, is known as one of the worst Israeli prisons for human rights abuses. The continued spread of scabies (Sarcoptes scabiei) in the facility has been turned into a tool of deliberate harm by the prison administration. Nasrallah, according to his family, had no prior health issues before his arrest.
With the martyrdom of Nasrallah, the number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees known to have been killed since the genocide began rises to 73—those whose identities are confirmed despite the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance. This phase marks one of the bloodiest in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian people as a whole. Since 1967, the total number of known prisoner martyrs has now reached 310.
The Commission and the Prisoners Club stressed that the growing number of martyrs among detainees is reaching alarming levels as thousands remain imprisoned and are subjected to ongoing systematic crimes, including torture, abuse of all forms, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and deliberate exposure to life-threatening and infectious diseases such as scabies. They also face unprecedented deprivation policies.
They described Nasrallah’s death as another crime in the record of Israeli brutality, where killing prisoners has become a deliberate objective. This crime represents yet another face of the broader ongoing genocide.
The Commission and the Club held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for Nasrallah’s martyrdom and renewed their call to the international human rights community to take decisive actions to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes. They urged the imposition of international sanctions on the Israeli entity to end its impunity and restore credibility to international law and human rights mechanisms, which have thus far failed in the face of genocide.
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