Palestinian detainee from Gaza dies in Israeli custody, death toll rises to 87: Rights groups
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260113-palestinian-detainee-from-gaza-dies-in-israeli-custody-death-toll-rises-to-87-rights-groups/
In a joint statement, the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that Hamza Abdullah Abdulhadi Adwan, 67, died in Israeli detention on 9th September 2025.
Adwan, who suffered from chronic heart disease and required continuous medical care, was detained on 12th November 2024, at a military checkpoint in northern Gaza, the statement said.
The institutions said Adwan was married and a father of nine children, two of whom were killed before the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023.
They said his death comes amid what they described as systematic abuses against Palestinian detainees, including torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual assault, humiliation and detention under degrading conditions.
According to the statement, more than 100 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli prisons since the start of the war on Gaza, but Israeli authorities have officially disclosed the identities of only 87 of them. The remaining cases, the institutions said, remain subject to enforced disappearance, alongside dozens of detainees who were executed in the field.
The Commission and the Prisoner’s Society released alarming new statistics illustrating the scale of the crackdown. As of January 2026, the total number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons has surpassed 9,300.
Most are legally in limbo, including:
- 3,385 administrative detainees, held indefinitely on secret evidence without trial.
- 1,237 detainees classified as “unlawful combatants”, a designation Israel uses to hold Palestinians from Gaza without granting them prisoner-of-war status or legal rights.
With the confirmation of Adwan’s death, the number of prisoners known to have died in Israeli custody since the war began has risen to 87, including 51 from Gaza.
UN Warns Child Malnutrition in Gaza Nears 95,000 Cases as Winter Worsens Crisis
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/un-warns-child-malnutrition-in-gaza-nears-95000-cases-as-winter-worsens-crisis/
More Palestinian children are facing severe consequences of malnutrition at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
The United Nations warned on Monday that child malnutrition in the Gaza Strip has reached critical levels, with nearly 95,000 cases identified since the start of 2025, as severe winter weather threatens to reverse already fragile humanitarian progress.
Speaking at a press briefing, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain dire, with harsh weather increasingly undermining relief efforts on the ground.
Dujarric noted that agencies coordinating the nutrition response continue to identify large numbers of children requiring urgent intervention. He said that humanitarian partners screened more than 76,000 children last month alone, detecting approximately 4,900 cases of acute malnutrition, including over 820 cases classified as severe.
“These latest figures bring the total number of acute malnutrition cases identified in 2025 to nearly 95,000,” he said.
