Gaza Herald – Palestinian detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdulhadi Adwan, 67, from the Gaza Strip, dies in Israeli prisons, according to a joint announcement by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
The two institutions said Israeli authorities confirmed that Adwan died on September 9, 2025, without providing details on the circumstances of his death, after previously giving his family contradictory information. Adwan had been detained at the so-called “Civil Administration” military checkpoint on November 12, 2024, despite suffering from serious heart conditions and requiring ongoing medical care.
Rights groups stated that Adwan’s death is part of a wider pattern of systematic abuse inside Israeli prisons, including torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual violence, and degrading detention conditions. Since the start of the war on Gaza, more than 100 Palestinian detainees have died in custody, with 87 identities officially confirmed, including 51 detainees from Gaza.
The groups warned that many detainees from Gaza remain victims of enforced disappearance, while others were subjected to field executions, citing the condition of bodies returned after the ceasefire as evidence of systematic extrajudicial killings inside detention facilities.
With Adwan’s death, the number of identified Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli custody since 1967 rises to 324, marking what rights groups describe as the deadliest period in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.
