On 15 May 2025, Palestinian prisoners’ organizations reported that they had received confirmation of the martyrdom of three more Palestinians from Gaza abducted and imprisoned by the occupation amid the imperialist-Zionist genocide in Gaza:
- Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudaih, 56, detained from Gaza on 7 October 2023 and martyred in occupation custody on 12 October 2023 after only 5 days in prison, one of the fastest cases of martyrdom after arrest.
- Bilal Talal Salameh, 24, detained during his displacement from Khan Younis governorate in March 2024 and martyred on 11 August 2024 after approximately 5 months in Zionist prisons.
- Mohammed Ismail al-Astal, 46, detained from Gaza on 7 February 2024 and martyred just two weeks ago, on 2 May 2025. The occupation forces disclosed no information about the circumstances of their martyrdom.
Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudaih’s martyrdom had been previously reported by his family but had not been officially reported to the Palestinian prisoners’ organizations.
This means that the number of identified Palestinian prisoners who have been martyred inside the occupation prisons since 7 October 2023 rises to at least 69, with the overall number of prisoners’ movement martyrs since 1967 rising to 306. The occupation continues to imprison their bodies, as it does the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians, including at least 78 martyred prisoners—67 of them since the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
44 of the martyred prisoners are from Gaza; here, it is important to note that even the numbers and names of Palestinians abducted from Gaza have not been fully revealed. Those held in the infamous prison and torture camps of the occupation military, such as Sde Teiman and Anatot, are not included in the official prison statistics that indicate over 1,800 Palestinians from Gaza among 10,100 Palestinian prisoners. Reports by Gaza liberated prisoners highlight the ongoing use of severe physical torture and abuse amid horrific conditions of confinement as a systematic and routine practice, part and parcel of the genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip.
The unprecedented level of martyrdom of Palestinian prisoners is part of an assassination campaign inside the occupation’s prisons and detention camps, carried out through institutionalized physical and psychological torture, beatings, starvation, sexual assault, the spread of contagious disease (particularly scabies), and the deliberate denial of medical care. This takes place in parallel with the ongoing, escalated genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine. These war crimes and crimes against humanity are compounded by the denial of family and legal visits, preventing any external monitoring of the mistreatment suffered by imprisoned Palestinians. All imprisoned Palestinians, and especially the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, are living under an ongoing threat to their lives due to the occupation’s policy of “slow assassination.”
Every dollar, euro, and pound exchanged with the occupation; every weapon given to its genocidal forces; and every intelligence-sharing and police-training mission between the Zionist project and the imperialist powers—especially the US, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, and EU countries—are evidence of full complicity in the ongoing genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people as a whole.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network sends its deepest condolences and salutes to the loved ones of Ayman Qudaih, Bilal Salameh and Mohammed al-Astal, and to the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, and urges all to organize and take action, to escalate the struggle in the imperial core, to bring the genocide to an end, to break the siege on Gaza, to free the Palestinian prisoners and to free Palestine from the river to the sea.
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The martyrs of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement in the past 18 months include the following:
- Omar Daraghmeh
- Arafat Hamdan
- Majed Ahmed Zaqoul
- Abdel-Rahman Al-Bahsh
- Atta Yousef Hasan Fayyad
- Zuhair Omar Sharif
- Raja Ismail Samour
- Walid Abdel-Hadi Hamid
- Abdel-Rahman Mar’i
- Dr. Iyad Al Rantisi
- Thaer Samih Abu Assab
- Faraj Hussein Hasan Ali
- Hamdan Hassan Anaba
- Hussein Saber Abu Obeida
- Ali Abdullah Suleiman Al-Houli
- Arafat Al-Khawaja
- Mohammed Ahmed Al-Sabbar
- Mohammed Abu Sneineh
- Ahmed Rizq Qudaih
- Izz al-Din Ziad Al-Banna
- Asif Abdel-Mu’ti Al-Rifai
- Khaled Musa Jamal Al-Shawish
- Majed Hamdi Ibrahim Sawafiri
- Ahmed Abdel Marjan Al-Aqqad
- Jumaa Abu Ghanima
- Dr. Ziad Mohammed Al-Dalou
- Wafa Amin Mohammed Abdelhadi
- Kamal Hussein Ahmad Radi
- Walid Nimr Daqqah
- Fathi Mohammed Mahmoud Jadallah
- Abdel-Rahim Abdel-Karim Amer
- Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh
- Karim Abu Saleh
- Ismail Abdel-Bari Khader
- Mohammed Sharif Al-Assali
- Omar Abdelaziz Junaid
- Adnan Ashour
- Islam Al-Sarsawi
- Sheikh Mustafa Abu Ora
- Nasr el-Din Ziyara
- Kifah Dabaya
- Ayman Rajeh Issa Abed
- Zaher Tahsin Raddad
- Mohammed Munir Musa
- Walid Ahmed Khalifa
- Samir Mahmoud Al-Kahlout
- Moath Khaled Rayyan
- Anwar Aslim
- Sheikh Samih Suleiman Muhammad Aliwi
- Munir Abdullah al-Faqaawi
- Yassin Munir al-Faqaawi
- Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Idris
- Mohammed Anwar Labad
- Alaa Marwan Hamza al-Mahlawi
- Mohammed Walid Hussein Al-Aref
- Mohammed Rashid Saeed Al-Akka
- Ashraf Mohammed Abu Warda
- Motaz Mahmoud Abu Zneid
- Musaab Hani Haniyeh
- Ali Ashour Ali Al Batsh
- Tayseer Sababa Abou Al Saeed
- Khalil Haniyeh
- Mohammed Yassin Jabr
- Raafat Adnan Abu Fannouneh
- Khaled Mahmoud Qassem Abdallah
- Walid Khaled Ahmad
- Musaab Hassan Adili
- Khalil Nasser Radaideh
- Muhyiddin Nijm
- Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudaih
- Bilal Talal Salameh
- Mohammed Ismail al-Astal
- There are at least two more martyred workers from Gaza whose names have not been disclosed.
The following released prisoners were either martyred almost immediately upon their release due to torture and the denial of medical care, or, in the case of Kazem Zawahreh, following the prisoner exchange where he was returned to a Palestinian hospital in a coma.
- Rami Attiya Jumaa Abu Mustafa
- Farouk Ahmed Issa Khatib
- Kazem Issa Zawahreh
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