Ramallah – Zaytoun News
The Palestinian Detainees’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) that detainee Samir Mohammad Yousef Al-Rifai, 53, from the town of Rummana near Jenin, has died in Israeli prison.
The two organizations explained that Al-Rifai, a married father of five, was detained by Israeli occupation forces from his home on July 10. He was scheduled to have his first hearing in the Salem Military Court today. According to medical reports provided by his family, he suffered from heart problems before his detention and required intensive medical follow-up.
They added that with Al-Rifai’s death, the number of slain Palestinians among prisoners and detainees since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 74.
Only those whose identities have been identified are known, given the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance, making this period the bloodiest in the history of the prisoners. Thus, the number of slain Palestinians prisoners whose identities are known since 1967 has reached 311 to date.
The Commission and the PPS emphasized that the increasing number of slain prisoners and detainees has become an inevitable consequence, taking a more dangerous turn as thousands of prisoners and detainees continue to be held in Israeli prisons. They continue to be subjected to systematic crimes, most notably torture, starvation, and all forms of assault, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to serious and contagious diseases, most notably scabies, in addition to unprecedented policies of dispossession and deprivation.
They emphasized that the death of detainee Al-Rifai constitutes a new crime added to the record of Israeli brutality, which commits all forms of crimes aimed at killing prisoners. This is another aspect of the ongoing genocide, and an extension of it.
The two organizations held the occupation fully responsible for the death of detainee Al-Rifai, and renewed the 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 Palestinian people, and to impose sanctions on the occupation that would place it in clear international isolation, and restore the human rights system to its fundamental role for which it was established, and put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that paralyzed this system during the war of extermination, and end the state of exceptional immunity that the countries of the world have granted to Israel, considering it above accountability, accountability and punishme
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