On Palestinian Prisoners' Day: Detainee killed in Israeli occupation’s custody
April 17, 2025

Commission of Detainees Affairs and Palestinian Prisoner’s Society 

Ramallah, Palestine - A 20-year-old Palestinian political prisoner has been killed behind Israeli bars as Palestinians mark the annual Prisoner’s Day. 

Occupation authorities disclosed to Palestinian officials that Musab Hassan Adeili from the city of Nablus, lost his life while hospitalized at the Soroka Hospital last night. 

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society subsequently informed the family. He has been held in prison since March 22, 2024, and was sentenced to a year and a month.

Palestinian prisoner defense groups hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the killing of detainee Musab Adeili. He is the latest Palestinian political prisoner to be killed both directly and indirectly by occupation prison authorities amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 

With his killing, the number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since the genocide began in October 2023 has risen to 64 people including a child, in what is the most violent period yet in the history of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people as a whole. At least 40 of those 64 were abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip, with the bodies of other killed detainees subject to enforced disappearances. 

The number of identified martyred detainees since 1967 has now risen to 301 people, while the number of martyred detainees whose bodies are being held has reached 73 people, including 62 withheld since the genocide. 

These crimes constitute another aspect of the ongoing genocide. Prisoner groups warn that the increasing number of martyrs among detainees will take an even more dangerous turn as more time passes with the lives of thousands of prisoners at risk. The main way detainees are being killed are severe physical assault, deprivation of medical care, torture including sexual assault, and starvation. 

Prisoner groups stress their demand for the international human rights system to move forward in taking effective decisions to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions on the occupation that would place it in a state of global isolation, and restore to the human rights system the fundamental role for which it was created, and put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that it has been afflicted with during the genocide, and end the state of exceptional immunity that the world has granted to the occupying state as it is above accountability, accountability and punishment.