IMEMC News / September 2, 2024
Early on Monday, the head of the Jenin Governmental Hospital, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, said Israeli soldiers abused and tortured to death a Palestinian man they abducted from his home at dawn.
Dr. Wisam Bakr said the soldiers abducted Ayman Rajeh ‘Aabed, 50, from his home in Kafr Dan village, northwest of Jenin, after assaulting and wounding him, before taking him to the Salem military roadblock, where he was assaulted again and tortured to death.
Bakr added that the soldiers later handed Ayman’s corpse to Palestinian medics while he was handcuffed and tied before they took him to the Jenin Governmental Hospital where he was examined and found to contain visible signs of beating and torture to various parts of his body.
Ayman Taha, one of Ayman’s relatives, said the latter was abducted from his home at dawn after the soldiers stormed the property and repeatedly assaulted him before taking him to the Salem military roadblock, where he was tortured again.
Taha stated that Ayman was a healthy man without any medical conditions or chronic diseases, and said Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medics went to the military roadblock where they retrieved his body and took it to the hospital.
His death brings the number of documented and identified detainees who died in captivity, including those who were tortured in interrogation facilities, since October 7, 2023, to 25. This number is only for those who were declared dead by the Israeli authorities, without providing any further information and does not include the dozens who were killed, tortured to death, or denied medical treatment until they died, as Israel still refuses to provide any information, including their names and exact numbers.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army continued its offensive on Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp for the sixth day, causing extensive damage to many homes, cars, public and private property, and infrastructure, including electricity and water networks, and streets.
The army also killed eighteen Palestinians in Jenin, in addition to displacing dozens of families from their homes under direct military evacuation orders.
During the ongoing invasion, the soldiers occupied Khaled Bin al-Walid mosque in Jenin for several days and used it as a military post. Only after the soldiers withdrew did the locals manage to go to the holy site and observe the serious damage and desecration, including the trash the army left behind, and discarded empty containers of food and water.
Israel has now killed 681 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023, among them 155 children, 9 women, 2 medics and one journalist.
184 of the slain Palestinians are from the Jenin governorate, 143 from Tulkarem, 71 from Nablus, 71 from Hebron/Al-Khalil, 59 from Ramallah and Al-Bireh, 46 from Tubas, 28 from Qalqilia, 44 from Jerusalem, 19 from Bethlehem, 12 from Jericho and Northern Plains, and 4 in Salfit.
Names of slain Palestinians In West Bank since August 27:
- Ayman Rajeh ‘Aabed, 50, Jenin, 09.01.2024
- Laith Marwan Shawahna, 18, Jenin, 09.01.2024
- Mohannad Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Aswad, 34, Hebron, 09.01.2024
- Abdullah Nasser Abdullah Hamou, 16, Jenin, 09.01.2024
- Mohammed Mahmoud Abdullah Hamou, 13, Jenin, 09.01.2024
- Mohammad Amin Talal Abdullah, 19, Jenin, 08.31.2024
- Amjad Mustafa Ibrahim Saleh, 23, Jenin, 08.31.2024
- Mohammad Ihsan Yaqin Maraqa, 18, Hebron, 08.31.2024
- Zohdi Nidal Abu Afifa, 19, Hebron, 08.31.2024
- Maysara Suleiman Abdul Masharqa, 33, Jenin, 08.30.2024
- Arafat Jasser Ahmad Amer, 27, Jenin, 08.30.2024
- Wissam Ayman Zidan Khazem, 30, Jenin, 08.30.2024
- Tawfiq Ahmad Younis Qandeel, 83, Jenin
- Mohammad Bassam Orabi, 32, Jenin, 08.29.2024
- Ayed Mahmoud Nimer Abu Al-Haija, 64, Tulkarem, 28.2024.
- Mohammad Ibrahim Tawfiq Abed, 31, Jenin, 28.2024
- Ahmad Moayyad Mahmoud Sous, 21, Jenin, 28.2024
- Sa’id Ali Sa’id Wahdan, 29, Jenin, 28.2024
- Mohammad Nidal Abdul-Rahman, 21, Jenin, 28.2024
- Morad Mas’ud Na’ja (Ja’aysa), 13, Tubas, 28.2024
- Mohammad Mas’ud Na’ja (Ja’aysa), 17, Tubas, 28.2024
- Ahmad Saleh Nabrisi, 18, Tubas, 28.2024
- Ibrahim Abdul-Qader Ghneima, 21, Tubas,28.2024
- Qassam Mohammad Jabarin, 24, Jenin, 08.27.2024
- Assem Walid Bal’out (Dabaya), 39, Jenin, 08.27.2024
- Firas Bassam Alaqma “Turkman”, 34, Jenin, 08.28.2024
- Adnan Ayser Jaber, 15, Tulkarem, 27.2024
- Mohammad Ahmad Elian, 16, Tulkarem, 27.2024
- Mohannad Kamal Qaraawi, 20, Tulkarem, 27.2024
- Jibril Ghassan Ismail Jibril, 20, Qalqilia, 27.2024
- Mohammad Ali Mustafa Yousef, 49, Jenin, 27.2024
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Palestine Red Crescent retrieves body of prisoner tortured to death by Israeli soldiers
Middle East Monitor / September 2, 2024
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has reported that it has retrieved the body of prisoner Ayman Rajih Abed from the Salem military checkpoint. Abed, 50, was from Kafr Dan, west of Jenin.
At the Jenin Government Hospital, doctors noted that his body was still wearing handcuffs and showed clear signs of torture, according to hospital director Wissam Bakr. Doctors confirmed that there were visible marks of severe beatings, indicating that he had been tortured to death by Israeli soldiers during his detention.
According to Ayman Taha, Israeli forces raided Abed’s home at dawn, where he was brutally beaten before being taken to the military checkpoint. He added that his relative was in good health at the time of his arrest, and died as a result of being tortured in detention.
Abed’s death brings the confirmed number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees killed inside Israeli prisons since 7 October to 25. However, this figure only covers the individuals whose identities have been confirmed. The Israeli occupation authorities continue to withhold information about the identities of many others who have died in prisons and camps, leaving the exact number unknown.
The Israeli army has been engaged since last Wednesday in its largest military operation in the northern West Bank since 2002. Troops have stormed into Jenin and Tulkarm, as well as their refugee camps and the Fara camp near Tubas. The army withdrew from the Fara camp early on Thursday morning and from Tulkarm later that evening.
However, operations in Jenin continue, with the Israeli army deploying armoured forces, supported by air power, in the city. The operation has seen at least 26 Palestinians killed, according to Israeli military sources.
Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank amid a brutal Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed almost 41,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since 6 October last year. At least 674 Palestinians have been killed, nearly 5,400 others injured, and over 10,300 arrested in the occupied West Bank during the same period, according to Palestinian figures.
In a landmark opinion on 19 July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land to be unlawful and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
