Palestinian prisoner dies a week after release from Israeli jail
Palestinian prisoner Khaled al-Saifi, 67, has died as a result of medical negligence a week after his release from Israeli jail, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
The monitors said in a statement that al-Saifi, a resident of the Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Bethlehem area, had been arrested twice since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. He spent at least four months in prison in Ramla, where his health deteriorated due to torture, abuse and starvation.
The organisations said he was released and transferred to the Istishari Hospital in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah city in critical condition and died on Monday. At least 21,000 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since the start of the war.
Israeli rights group says government aiming to annex East Jerusalem by 2029
Israeli non-profit Ir Amim has said the Israeli government adopted a resolution with a mandate to complete land registration on 100 percent of land in the occupied East Jerusalem by the end of 2029.
This process, through which the state “determines and finalizes land ownership rights and officially records them in the State’s land registry”, has become one of its primary tools “for seizing Palestinian land and expanding Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem”, it said on X.
The resolution allocates new budgets, increases government personnel, and stipulates the involvement of the Custodian of Absentee Property under the authority of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, “indicating a concerted effort to expand and expedite implementation of the process”.
This “raises serious alarm and underscores the government’s intent to accelerate mass land confiscations in East Jerusalem, placing Palestinians at an unprecedented risk of dispossession and displacement”, it added.
‘Where is the Board of Peace?’ Wounded Gaza resident recounts ordeal for medical evacuation
Shadi Soboh, a 37-year-old Palestinian wounded during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, says he has been waiting for a medical evacuation from the enclave for 10 months.
“I lost bones, 12 centimetres [4.7 inches], and the main artery was cut. All the hospitals, Nasser Hospital, al-Shifa Hospital, and all doctors told me I need a bone transplant surgery abroad. I submitted an application and did a transfer to go abroad to do my operation,” he said.
“This is my transfer paper. It was done 10 months ago. Where is the Board of Peace? Where is the world? Are they waiting for my leg to get amputated?”
