Palestinian prisoners’ associations announced the martyrdom of imprisoned Palestinian Muhyiddin Nijm, 60, today, Sunday, 4 May, inside the occupation’s Soroka hospital.
Muhyiddin Nijm had been imprisoned without charge or trial under “administrative detention” since 8 August 2023. He was one of over 3,600 administrative detainees held under a so-called “secret file,” among over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners.
Nijm, from the village of Siris, south of Jenin, was a married father of six children. He spent a total of 19 years in the occupation’s prisons, including the past two years in arbitrary administrative detention. Despite suffering from chronic health problems, he was systematically denied medical treatment by the occupation—a practice that is part of the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Zionist prison administration, hand in hand with the genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine.
Muhyiddin Nijm is at least the 66th martyr of the prisoners’ movement since 7 October 2023. There are at least 303 martyrs of the prisoners’ movement since 1967 (data is not compiled for the period 1948–1967). The occupation continues to imprison his body, as it does the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians, including at least 75 martyred prisoners—64 of them since the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood.
On 10 March, he received a legal visit in the Naqab desert prison—one of the prisons with the highest number of ongoing cases of acute and chronic illness, systemic medical neglect and mistreatment, and the rampant spread of scabies. This is in addition to ongoing torture, beatings, and deliberate starvation. During the visit, the severe decline in his health was apparent; he could barely walk and moved only with great difficulty. After multiple demands for treatment, he was finally moved for a medical examination but was never informed of the details of his condition. Instead, he was left to be martyred after two years of imprisonment without charge or trial.
Muhyiddin Nijm had a long history in the Palestinian liberation struggle. He spent 17 years in the occupation’s prisons, having been arrested by occupation forces who surrounded his home on 3 May 1994, while his parents were performing Hajj. He was held under military interrogation and tortured for months before being sentenced by a Zionist military court to 18 years in prison for his involvement in political and resistance activity with Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Born in 1965 into a family of 14 brothers and sisters, he attended university after graduating high school, where he obtained a degree in public health and became one of the most prominent activists of the Islamic Bloc. With the outbreak of the Great Intifada of the Stones, he became involved with the Hamas movement and deepened his involvement in the struggle over the years.
The martyrdom of Palestinian prisoners—today, Muhyiddin Nijm—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 Muhyiddin Nijm’s loved ones, brothers and comrades, 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, including participating in the global strike on 15 May to mark the anniversary of the ongoing Nakba.
Download this poster of the martyr Muhyiddin Nijm — as well as this group of prisoners’ posters — to include in your next action.
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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
- Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudaih
- Mohammed Yassin Jabr
- Raafat Adnan Abu Fannouneh
- Khaled Mahmoud Qassem Abdallah
- Walid Khaled Ahmad
- Musaab Hassan Adili
- Khalil Nasser Radaideh
- Muhyiddin Nijm
- 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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