23-year-old cancer-stricken Palestinian man faces third jail term without trial

Israel has extended the administrative detention of 23-year-old Mohammad Khdeirat, a cancer patient from Al-Khalil, for another six months, marking his third consecutive detention order.

Initially arrested on June 1, 2024, during specialized treatment following a bone marrow transplant, Khdeirat was also sentenced to 17 months in prison. 

At the time of his arrest, he was scheduled to receive 14 doses of biological therapy but has only received two.

Israeli authorities have issued three six-month administrative detention orders against him and denied him access to ongoing medical treatment and post-arrest medical test results. As a result, Khdeirat’s health has severely deteriorated, with significant weight loss and extreme physical weakness.

Under its policy of administrative detention, the occupying regime detains Palestinians without trial or charge for up to six months; a period which can be extended for an indefinite number of times. Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.

Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups say the Israeli army has detained more than 17,000 Palestinians since October 2023.  

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced in a recent statement.

According to the statement, 537 women and 1,360 children are among the detainees.

The rights group estimated that the number of Palestinian detainees reached over 10,100, including more than 400 children and 45 women.

24 Palestinian women held in administrative detention in Damon prison: Samidoun group

Samidoun says 24 Palestinian women are held in administrative detention in Israel’s Damon prison.

The updated figures come while Israel continues to conceal the actual number of Palestinians detained during its ongoing war on Gaza.

The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip, whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.

The update on the number of Palestinian prisoners comes amid reports of torture and mistreatment of detainees in Israeli prisons.

Medical crimes and denial of treatment have been the primary tools for executing systematic killings of dozens of prisoners since the Israeli war began in Gaza, rights groups say.

These crimes include imposing harsh detention conditions, torturing and assaulting prisoners, deliberately causing illnesses by denying them treatment and healthcare, starving them, and turning their need for treatment into a tool of torture.

Palestinian advocacy groups have reported an alarming surge in the number of Palestinians abducted by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Thousands have been “forcibly disappeared” from the blockaded region over the past few months.

Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 54,249 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 123,492 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

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