GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli Haaretz newspaper revealed that an Israeli Nahhal brigade commander killed a Palestinian prisoner who was used as a human shield to inspect buildings in the southern Gaza Strip.
The newspaper pointed out in an investigative report that the liquidation was carried out immediately after the commander noticed the presence of the Palestinian prisoner, claiming he did not know that the prisoner was sent by the army, which officially confirmed the details of the incident.
Late June, Al-Jazeera received special footages showing Israeli occupation forces (IOF) using Palestinian prisoners, including wounded people, as human shields during fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The footages show prisoners tied up, with cameras installed on their bodies, while they were forcibly entering destroyed houses for military inspection purposes.
In a related context, at least 54 identified Palestinian prisoners have been martyred in Israeli occupation prisons since the start of the extermination war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, according to Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs Commission and Palestinian Prisoner Society.
The two institutions revealed, in a joint statement, issued on Tuesday, marking the Palestinian Martyr Day, which falls on January 7, that 35 of the identified martyrs among prisoners are from the Gaza Strip, while no information on dozens of other Gazan martyrs has been released.
The statement pointed out that 291 identified prisoners have been martyred since 1967, other than those who died as a result of field executions.
The statement also indicated that there are 63 captive martyrs whose bodies have been held in Israel’s custody, including 52 since the start of the war, while dozens of martyrs of Gaza detainees are still subjected to enforced disappearance.
Since the start of the Israeli genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, many prisoners’ testimonies have confirmed the martyrdom of prisoners from the Gaza Strip due to brutal torture in Israeli occupation prisons, in addition to the policy of medical neglect.
The number of Palestinian prisoners recognized by Israeli Prison Service by early December, has surged to more than 10,300, while the crime of enforced disappearance against hundreds of Gazan detainees continues.
Among the prisoners there are 90 women, at least 345 children, and 3,428 administrative detainees.
