RAMALLAH, (PIC)
Palestinian Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs commission announced the martyrdom of the cancer patient prisoner Assif Al-Rifai, 22, inside Israeli prisons.
The Commission and the and Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that martyr Rifai, from the town of Kafr Ain in Ramallah, has been detained since September 24, 2022, and was martyred after being transferred from the Ramla Prison Clinic to the Israeli Assaf Harofeh Hospital.
With the martyrdom of Al-Rifai, the number of the Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli jails since October 7 has risen to 11 martyrs, the last case was the martyrdom of the crippled prisoner Izz al-Din al-Banna from Gaza.
The two human rights groups confirmed that the escalation in the number of martyrs who died in Israeli jails after October 7, as a result of torture, systematic retaliatory measures, and medical crimes, constitutes a clear decision to kill Palestinian prisoners within the framework of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the all-out war on the Palestinian people.
The two organizations launched repeated calls demanding the international institutions to stop the Israeli systematic criminal policy of enforced disappearance which is aimed at carrying out more crimes against Gaza detainees with no surveillance in addition to setting new laws particularly for Gaza detainees.
