⭕️ Palestinian prisoner Imad Rajih Sarhan, 47, from Haifa, has died in Israel’s Gilboa Prison, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
🔸The rights groups said Sarhan, imprisoned since 2001 and serving a life sentence, suffered years of torture, medical neglect, and repeated solitary confinement, leaving him with chronic heart and vascular disease, high blood pressure, and eventually requiring a wheelchair. They said Israeli authorities informed his family he died after suffering a heart attack, but provided no further details.
🔸The organizations said Sarhan is the 90th Palestinian prisoner whose death has been announced since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, with many more likely dead, and the 327th documented prisoner death in Israeli custody since 1967. They echoed international NGOs, saying Israel’s prison system is carrying out a policy of “slow executions” through torture, starvation, and medical neglect, and called for international action and accountability.
🔸According to prisoner advocacy groups, more than 9,400 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, including 3,324 administrative detainees and 1,316 classified as “unlawful combatants” — all without charge or trial.