GAZA, (PIC)
Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi had been tortured to death in Shikma Investigation Center of the Israeli Internal Security Service “Shin Bet” in Ashkelon Prison, only six days after had been arrested from the Gaza Strip on November 11, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz has recently revealed.
Dina, the daughter of the martyr Al-Rantisi, mourned her father on her X account on Tuesday evening after the news was published saying, “With all pride and honor, I bring to you the news of the martyrdom of my father, Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi.”
Her post included a broken heart and two photos showing her father busy in the operating room.
On June 15, on the day of the Arafah the main pillar of Hajj, Dina published two posts, the first of which said, “Please don’t forget to pray for my father and all the prisoners on this blessed day,” and in the second she wondered, “would this Eid be once again without my father?”
Al-Rantisi, 53 years old, was the director of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
After the martyrdom of Al-Rantisi, the Israeli Magistrate Court in Ashkelon issued an order prohibiting the publication of news on his death or any related details for a period of six months ending last May.
Doctor Hossam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, affirmed that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested his colleague Iyad Al-Rantisi at a military checkpoint while he was trying to move from northern Gaza towards the south at the request of the IOF.
Abu Safiya added that neither he nor Al-Rantisi’s family had received any information about him.
Al-Rantisi is the second doctor from the Gaza Strip, after Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, whose martyrdom in detention centers was announced by the IOF.
It was reported that an Israeli force of jailers executed Al-Rantisi by subjecting him to electric shock and practicing various forms of torture against him, which led to his martyrdom months ago.
The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said, “The Israeli execution of Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi in jail is a horrific crime that requires an international investigation,” demanding the release of 310 medical personnel who are currently subjected to torture in Israeli detention centers.
The GMO said in a statement that Al-Rantisi and Al-Bursh joined 499 medical personnel who were martyred in the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 last year.
The Office held Israeli occupation leaders and the US administration fully responsible for the lives of medical personnel, calling on the international community to guarantee their right to legal protection.
It called for the opening of an international investigation into the crimes of arrest and execution of Palestinian medical personnel at the hands of the IOF, urging for pressuring Israel to urgently release all Palestinian doctors, nurses, and workers in the health sector immediately, and without delay.
Detainees and Ex-detainees’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced in a joint statement early May the martyrdom of two detainees from the Gaza Strip, one of whom was Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh (50 years old), head of the orthopedic department at Al-Shifa Hospital, who was arrested last December while he was in Al-Awda Hospital with a group of doctors.
According to Palestinian Civil Affairs, Al-Bursh was martyred in Ofer prison near Ramallah on April 19 as a result of torture and his body is still held in Israel.
Earlier, the Intercept website published a report highlighting the plight of Palestinian doctors in Gaza. The report indicates that hundreds of members of medical staff in Gaza were martyred or subjected to arrest and physical torture.
Haaretz revealed the martyrdom of 36 Palestinian detainees in the Sde Teiman detention center, two martyrs in the Anatot detention center, and two other people who died on their way to detention centers.
These figures do not comprise Palestinians from Gaza who died in detention centers run by the Israeli Prison Service.
