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Prisoner Musab Adili, from the village of Osarin, south of Nablus, died at Soroka Hospital last night, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) said in a joint statement on Thursday.
Adili, 20, was detained on 22 March 2024 and had been serving a sentence of one year and a month. He died just three days before his scheduled release.
The statement said Adili's death adds to the growing list of prisoners killed as a result of the Israeli prison authorities' organized crimes, which have unprecedentedly escalated since the beginning of the current genocide in Gaza.
It added that his death raises the number of Palestinian detainees killed in Israeli jails since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza to 64, 40 of whom, at least, were from Gaza.
The groups also noted that these are only the identified cases, referring to the crime of enforced disappearance, which continues to obscure the true scale of deaths in Israeli custody.
Furthermore, they emphasized that detainees are subjected to systematic daily abuses, including torture, starvation, various forms of physical assault, medical neglect, sexual violence, and deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to the spread of serious and contagious diseases, most notably scabies.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs had earlier stated that the number of Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons stands at 9,900.
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