A Palestinian from the West Bank, the first under the age of 18, to die in the Israeli prison: Officials

Officials said that a teenager from the West Bank was being held in an Israeli prison for a period of six months without accusing him died after his collapse in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under the age of 18 years to die in Israeli detention.

His family said that Walid Ahmed, 17, was a teacher of health high school before his arrest in September, allegedly throwing stones at the soldiers. The rights groups have documented Wide abuse In Israeli detention facilities carrying thousands of Palestinians who were rounded after Hamas attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which ignited the war in the Gaza Strip.

Prison authorities deny any systematic abuse and say they are investigating charges of violations by prison staff. But the Israeli ministry, which supervises prisons, acknowledges that the conditions inside the detention facilities have been reduced to the minimum level allowed under Israeli law.

Prison service in Israel did not answer questions about the cause of death. He only said that a 17 -year -old from the West Bank had died in Megiddo Prison, a facility previously accused of abuse of Palestinian prisoners, “with his medical condition.” She was investigating all deaths in detention.

Khaled Ahmed, the father of Walid, said that his son was a vital teenager who enjoyed playing football before he took him from his home in the occupied West Bank during a mail arrest.

Six months later, after many short manifestations of the court, no date for trial was set. Walid collapsed on March 23 in the prison square and hit his head, and dies shortly after.

The family believes that Walid contracted the amiibi dysentery from the bad conditions in prison, an infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness – and it can be fatal if left without treatment.

Western-backed Palestinian Authority says that Walid is the first Palestinian under the age of 18 years to die in Israeli-Palestinian detention 63 from the West Bank or Gaza since the beginning of the war.

Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups say that this is about a fifth of nearly 300 Palestinians who died in the Israeli reservation since the Middle East war in 1967, when Israel seized the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The Palestinians want all the three regions of their future condition.

The Palestinian Authority says that Israel maintains the bodies of 72 Palestinian prisoners who died in Israeli prisons, including 61 who have passed away since the beginning of the war.

Former detainees told Associated Press that the conditions in Israeli prisons have worsened since the beginning of the war. They described the beating, extreme overcrowding, insufficient medical care, spreading scabies and bad health conditions.

The Israeli National Security Ministry, which supervises the service of prisons and managed by the Minister of Extremist Cabinet, Itamar bin Ghaffir, was proud to reduce the conditions of the Palestinian detainees “to the minimum required under the law.” It says politics aims to deter attacks.

The father remembers him, saying: “Don’t worry about me.”

Israel gathered thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, saying it suspected of militancy. Many of them have been detained for several months without a charge or trial in what is known as administrative detention, which Israel justifies as a necessary security measure. Others are arrested on suspicion of aggression against the soldiers, but they are constantly late, as the army and Israeli security gather the evidence.

His father said that Walid sat through at least four appearances at the video conference. Walid’s father said that every session lasted for about three minutes, and another session was scheduled to be held on April 21.

In the February session, four months after the arrest of Wilde, his father noted that his son appeared in a bad health condition.

“His body was weakened due to malnutrition in prisons in general,” Ahmed said. He said that Walid told him that he got a tried – a metaphysical rash caused by the mites that cause severe itching – but was treated.

“Do not worry about me,” his father remembers him.

Four days after the visit of Khaled Ahmed Siddiq, his son, a former football team colleague who was held with Walid in the same prison, the family received the news of Walid’s death.

Khaled Ahmed said: “We felt the same way like all the fathers of the prisoners and all the families and mothers of the prisoners.” “We can only say,” in fact, we belong to God, and indeed we will return to him. “

“The harshest prison for minors”

Walid’s lawyer, Firas Al -Jabrini, said that the Israeli authorities denied his requests to visit his client in prison. But he says that three prisoners detained alongside Walid told him that he was suffering from dysentery, saying that he was a wide range among the young Palestinians who were held in the facility.

He said that they were suspected that the disease is spreading due to dirty water, as well as the cheese and milk brought by the prison guards in the morning and sitting throughout the day while the detainees were shouting for the month of Ramadan Muslims.

Al -Jabrini said that Megdo, in northern Israel, “is the harshest prison for minors.” He said he was told that the rooms designed for six prisoners often detain 16, with some sleep on the ground. A lot of scabies and eczema complained.

Thear, the official spokesman for the detainee’s committee of the Palestinian Authority, said that Wilde had collapsed and hit his head on a metal rod, and lost consciousness. He said, citing the witnesses who spoke to the committee: “The prison administration did not respond to the requests of the prisoners to obtain urgent care to save his life.”

The Palestinian lawyer and official said that an autopsy is needed to determine the cause of death. Israel agreed to one performance, but no date has been set.