🔴 Palestinian Political Prisoner Held Without Trial or Charge Killed in Occupation Prisons

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Palestinian Prisoner’s Society
August 3, 2025

Ramallah, Palestine – 20-year-old Palestinian political detainee Saeed Tazaz’a from Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank has been martyred in the Israeli occupation’s prison, Megiddo, where he was being held without trial or charge since May 6, 2025. 

Occupation authorities, like in most cases, refused to provide details about how he was killed. The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for his killing, and renew their demands for international human rights institutions to launch impartial investigations into the killings of dozens of prisoners since the start of the genocide. 

Megiddo Prison is one of the most notorious Israeli prisons where serious crimes are continuously occurring. 

The Commission and the PPS noted that, with the martyrdom of Tazaz’a, the number of identified martyred prisoners since the onset of the genocide has risen to 76 people, including 46 detainees abducted from Gaza. This brings the number of identified martyred prisoners since the occupation of 1967 to 313 people, making this the most violent period in the history of the prisoners’ movement. 

The two institutions emphasized that the unprecedented escalation in the death toll of prisoners confirms once again that the occupation's prison system continues to implement a policy of slow killing against them. Not a month goes by without a new martyr from the prisoner movement. With the ongoing perpetration of crimes inside prisons, the number of martyrs is likely to rise as more time passes, with thousands of prisoners and detainees being held in conditions that lack the most basic necessities of life. They are subjected daily 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, most notably scabies. This is in addition to the unprecedented severity of the policies of dispossession and deprivation.

The two organizations note that while the world is demanding the release of the occupation's prisoners, it is ignoring the continued systematic killing of our prisoners and the crimes of torture that are beyond description.

The international human rights system must take effective decisions to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes they are committing against our people, and to impose clear sanctions that isolate the occupation internationally, restore the human rights system to its fundamental role for which it was established, put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that afflicted it during the war of extermination, and end the state of exceptional immunity that the world grants to the occupying state, as if it is above the law, accountability and responsibility.