AhlulBayt News Agency: Israel has extended the administrative detention of 23-year-old Mohammad Khdeirat, a cancer patient from Al-Khalil, for another six months, marking his third consecutive detention order.
Khdeirat was initially arrested on June 1, 2024, while undergoing specialized treatment following a bone marrow transplant. He was also sentenced to 17 months in prison.
At the time of his arrest, he was scheduled to receive 14 doses of biological therapy but has only received two.
Israeli authorities have issued three six-month administrative detention orders against him, denying him access to ongoing medical treatment and post-arrest medical test results. His health has severely deteriorated, with significant weight loss and extreme physical weakness.
Under Israel’s policy of administrative detention, Palestinians can be detained without trial or charge for up to six months, with the possibility of indefinite extensions. Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.
Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups report that the Israeli army has detained more than 17,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs stated that among the detainees, 537 are women and 1,360 are children.
The rights group estimates that the number of Palestinian detainees has surpassed 10,100, including more than 400 children and 45 women.
Israel continues to conceal the actual number of Palestinians detained during its ongoing war on Gaza. The figure does not include those arrested from Gaza, whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.
Reports indicate widespread torture and mistreatment of detainees in Israeli prisons. Rights groups say medical crimes and denial of treatment have been used as tools for systematic killings of prisoners since the war began.
These crimes include harsh detention conditions, torture, assault, deliberate denial of medical care, starvation, and using medical treatment as a form of torture.
Palestinian advocacy groups report a surge in the number of Palestinians abducted by Israeli forces in Gaza, with thousands forcibly disappeared from the blockaded region in recent months.
Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, following Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, which was carried out in response to decades of Israeli aggression against Palestinians.
Since the start of the war, Israel has killed at least 54,249 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 123,492 others. Thousands more remain missing and are presumed dead under rubble.
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