Ramallah – Ma’an – The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Prisoners’ Club confirmed the martyrdom of the detainee Walid Ahmed Khalifa (30 years old) from Al-Ain camp in Nablus, after his arrest two days ago.

They explained in a statement issued today, Saturday, that Khalifa’s martyrdom was confirmed after his family’s home was stormed last Thursday, he was shot and arrested.

They pointed out that Khalifa is the brother of the martyr Amir Khalifa and the brother of the administrative detainee Khaled Khalifa, and that the occupation committed a complex crime against him, by shooting him directly with the aim of executing him, after storming his family’s home in the camp. The nature of his injury was not known at the time, and they were not able to confirm the place to which he was later transferred, until his family received information on Thursday evening that he had been martyred, and then the family was later informed by the Palestinian liaison.

According to his family, the occupation army took Wali
d out of the house while he was injured, and he was transferred on a stretcher specially designed for transporting the injured. Walid was screaming and calling for his family at the moment of his arrest, which confirms that Walid was conscious at the moment of his injury and arrest.

The Authority and the Club continued that the crime committed against the martyr Khalifa is part of a targeting operation that has affected the family since the assassination of his brother Amir Khalifa in August 2023, and the administrative detention of his brother Khaled Khalifa several months ago.

They stressed that the crime of executing the martyr Khalifa – who is a father of four children (two girls and two boys), one of whose children is one month old – is added to the record of the occupation’s crimes that have been ongoing for decades, and which have reached their peak with the continuation of the war of genocide against our people in Gaza, and the comprehensive aggression against our people in all Palestinian geographi
es, and against our male and female prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli occupation.

The Commission and the Club held the occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of the detainee Walid Khalifa, and the Commission and the Club renewed their continuous demands for international human rights organizations to restore their necessary and required role and stop the terrifying state of helplessness that has affected all of human society, in the face of the size of the horrific crimes that the Israeli occupation continues to carry out within the framework of the war of extermination, one of the aspects of which is the comprehensive aggression against prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons and camps.

It is worth mentioning that since the beginning of the war of extermination after October 7, and within the framework of the escalation of systematic arrest campaigns, the occupation has also escalated field executions and direct shooting of citizens during their arrest. There are dozens of wounded p
eople inside prisons who were targeted by the occupation’s bullets during their arrest, as they face dire and tragic conditions with the escalation of medical crimes, some of whom have developed chronic and permanent health problems.

It is noteworthy that with the martyrdom of the detainee Khalifa, the number of martyred detainees who were martyred after the seventh of October rises to (25), and the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 rises to (262), who are the detainees who were martyred inside prisons and detention centers, or were injured and martyred hours or days after their arrest in the occupation hospitals, and their identities were known to the relevant institutions and they were announced, and to them are added dozens of detainees from Gaza who were martyred inside the prisons and camps of the occupation after the war, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities and data until today, in light of the crime of enforced disappearance that has continued since the beginni
ng of the war.

Source: Maan News Agency