Translation of the press release of Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs' Commission:

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The occupation executes a new assassination operation against the prisoner Abdulrahman Al-Bahsh from Nablus in "Megiddo" Prison.

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs' Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners Club confirmed this evening, Monday, that the occupation prisons administration carried out a new assassination operation against the prisoner Abdulrahman Bassem Al-Bahsh (23 years old) from Nablus in "Megiddo" Prison.

He had been detained since May 31, 2022, and was sentenced to 35 months in prison. Thus, martyr Al-Bahsh becomes the first martyr on the first day of the year 2024, and the seventh martyr in the occupation prisons since October 7, 2023.

This is in addition to several detainees from Gaza, whose martyrdom in "Sidai Timan" camp in Bir Sabi' was reported by the occupation media, without clarifying details about their identities or numbers.

The Commission and the Club said in a joint statement that the assassination crime of the prisoner Abdulrahman Al-Bahsh in "Megiddo" Prison, which was one of the prisons that witnessed horrific crimes and systematic torture of prisoners after October 7, and where three prisoners ascended before prisoner Al-Bahsh, confirms that the occupation is continuing without any deterrent or consideration in carrying out more assassination operations against prisoners and detainees in its prisons, in addition to systematic crimes of torture and abuse, aiming to kill them directly.

The Commission and the Club added that all testimonies transmitted by prisoners released over the past period, as well as testimonies conveyed by lawyers, in addition to testimonies obtained by institutions about detainees who ascended after October 7, confirm that torture and severe beating by the repression units and special units of the occupation army were the direct cause of their martyrdom.

The Commission and the Club stated, "In light of the intensity of crimes that the occupation continues to commit against prisoners in prisons, we hold full responsibility, in addition to the criminal occupation, to all the international powers that continue to support the occupation in continuing genocide against our people in Gaza, and its ongoing comprehensive aggression against our people in all their places of presence, as well as against our prisoners in its prisons."

The Commission and the Club noted that October 7 was not the beginning of the occupation's criminality and brutality, but what is happening is an extension of the occupation's approach and policy against the prisoners. They reminded that the occupation, before October 7, sought to pass and apply the death penalty law against prisoners.

Nevertheless, as specialized parties, we will continue to follow up on the investigations that began regarding the detainees who were martyred after October 7, not because we expect any justice from the occupation's courts, but in an attempt to put an end to this level of ongoing criminality.

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs' Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners Club called on all international human rights institutions, led by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to reclaim their necessary and required role in the face of these unending crimes, and to press by all means to stop the unprecedented crimes against prisoners in the occupation prisons.

With the ascension of prisoner Abdulrahman Al-Bahsh from Nablus, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement rises to 244 since 1967.

We remind of the names of the martyrs who ascended after October 7:
Omar Draghmeh from Tubas, Arafat Hamdan from Ramallah, Majed Zaqoul from Gaza, a fourth martyr whose identity is unknown, Abdul Rahman Mar'i from Salfit, Thaer Abu Asab from Qalqilya, and martyr AbdulRahman Al-Bahsh who ascended today.

1/1/2024
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