Officials say that a teenager from the west shore, who was kept in an Israeli prison for six months, died after falling in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under 18 years of age.
17 -year -old Walid Ahmad was a healthy high school student before arrest in September for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers, and said his family. Groups of rights have documented widespread abuse Thousands of Palestinians who were rounded after Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, which lit the war in the Gaza Strip in Israeli.
The prison authorities refuse any systematic abuse and claim that they are investigating the accusations of offenses by prison staff. But the Israeli Ministry supervising prisons recognizes the conditions in detention facilities, they were reduced to a minimum level allowed in accordance with Israeli law.
Israel's prison service did not answer questions about the cause of death. He only said that a 17-year-old from the west bank died in the prison of Megiddo, an institution who was previously accused of abusing Palestinian prisoners, “and his health was confidential.” He said he was examining all deaths in detention.
Khalid Ahmad, Walid's father, said that his son was a lively teenager who liked to play football before he was taken from home on the occupied west shore during the arrest raid.
Six months later, after a few short court performances, during which the date of the hearing was not established, Walid collapsed on March 23 in the prison yard and hit his head, dying soon, Palestinian officials, citing the accounts of eyewitnesses from other prisoners.
The family believes that Walid has contracted amoebic dysentery from poor conditions in prison, an infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness – and it can be fatal if it is not treated.
A common Western Palestinian claims that Walid is the first Palestinian under 18 years of age, who died in Israeli detention-and 63. Palestinians from West Brzeg or Gaza from the beginning of the war.
Palestinian groups of prisoners say that there are about one -fifth of about 300 Palestinians who died in Israel's detention in the Middle East in 1967, when Israel caught the west bank, gauze and Eastern Jerusalem. Palestinians want all three territories for their future state.
Palestinian autonomy claims that Israel is holding the bodies of 72 Palestinian prisoners who died in Israeli prisons, including 61 who have died since the beginning of the war.
The conditions in Israeli prisons have deteriorated since the beginning of the war, they were detained, said The Associated Press. They described the beating, serious overpopulation, insufficient medical care, light explosions and poor sanitary conditions.
The Israeli Ministry of National Security, which supervises the prison service and is led by the ultra-nationalist minister of the Cabinet of Itamara Ben-Gvir, boasted a reduction in the conditions of stopped Palestinian “to a minimum required by law”. He says that politics aims to stop the attacks.
“Don't worry about me,” my father remembers as he says
Israel rounded thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, saying that he suspected their struggle. Many people have been taking place for months without fees or a process in the so -called administrative detention, which Israel justifies as a necessary security measure. Others are arrested on charges of aggression against soldiers, but their attempts are constantly delaying when military and Israeli security services gather evidence.
His father said Walid sat at least four court performances regarding a video conference. Each session lasted about three minutes and another interrogation was scheduled for April 21, said Walid's father.
Dr. Khaled Al Serr was released by the Israeli forces on September 29 after spending more than six months in Israeli prisons. A 32-year-old surgeon who works at the Nasser hospital at Khan Youunis in Gaza said that he was questioned, humiliated and beaten only so that he was suddenly released last week without any accusations.
During the February session, four months after the arrest of Walid, his father noticed that his son seemed to be in bad health.
“His body was weakened due to malnutrition in prison in general,” said Ahmad. He said Walid told him that he had got candles – a contagious skin rash caused by mites, which causes intensive itch – but was cured.
“Don't worry about me” – his father remembers him.
Four days after Khalid Ahmad visited the son of his son, a former friend from the football team, who was held with Walid in the same prison, the family received news about Walid's death.
“We felt the same as all parents of prisoners and all families and mothers of prisoners,” said Khalid Ahmad. “We can only say:” We really belong to Allah, and we will actually come back to him. “
“The most terrible prison for minors”
Lawyer Walida, Furtle Al-Jabrin, said that the Israeli authorities refused his request to visit prison. He says, however, that three prisoners held together with Walid told him that he was suffering from Czerwonka, saying that it is common among young Palestinians in the facility.
He said that they suspected that the disease was spreading because of dirty water, as well as cheese and yogurt, which prison guards brought in the morning and which were sitting all day when the detainees rained at the Muslim holy holy month of Ramadan.
Megiddo in northern Israel “is the most severe prison for minors,” said Al-Jabrin. He said that he was told that the rooms designed for six prisoners often had 16, and some people sleep on the floor. Many complained about Ĺwieciny and eczema.
Thaer Shriteh, a spokesman for a commission detained by Palestinians, said Walid had fallen and hit his head on a metal rod, losing consciousness. “The prison administration did not respond to prisoners' requests for urgent care to save his life,” he said, citing witnesses who talked to the commission.
Both the Palestinian lawyer and the Palestinian official stated that the autopsy is needed to determine the cause of death. Israel agreed to make one, but the date was not set.