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Palestinian dies in Israel’s prison

January 20, 2025 at 1:14 pm

22-year-old Mohamed Jaber died while in Israeli prisons on 19 January 2025

A Palestinian in his early 20s who has been held in an Israeli prison for over 14 months under administrative detention, died in custody, prisoners’ rights organisations said yesterday.

Mohamed Jaber, 22, died on Saturday, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a joint statement, citing the Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority, which liaises with Israeli occupation authorities.

The statement added that Jaber, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, “had been held under administrative detention since Dec. 11, 2023, and was detained in the Negev Desert Prison of southern Israel before his martyrdom.”

Though the statement did not go into detail about the circumstances surrounding his death, it did mention that Jaber had a severe wound to his abdomen a year and a half before his arrest.

“Part of his intestines was removed at that time, and he was arrested while in need of intensive medical care,” the statement added.

An estimated 292 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli jails since 1967, excluding prisoners from Gaza who have been subjected to enforced disappearance. Some 56 have died while in detention since October 2023. Jaber was the sixth administrative detainee to die while incarcerated.

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