Occupation hands over body of minor prisoner Walid Ahmed after his death by starvation in prisons

The Israeli occupation authorities handed over on Thursday the body of minor prisoner Walid Khaled Ahmed (17) from the town of Silwad east of Ramallah, following legal follow-up by a lawyer from the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority. Ahmed was martyred in March 2025 inside Megiddo prison after six months of detention, due to starvation and denial of medical treatment.

The Israeli occupation authorities handed over on Thursday, November 12, 2026, the body of minor prisoner Walid Khaled Ahmed (17) from the town of Silwad east of Ramallah, following legal follow-up by lawyer Nadia Daqqa from the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. Ahmed was martyred in March 2025 inside Megiddo prison, after about six months of detention, due to starvation and denial of medical treatment and healthcare. In December 2025, the occupation court in Hadera closed the investigation into the circumstances of his death. With the handover of Ahmed's body, 98 bodies of martyred prisoners remain held by the occupation authorities since 1967. Since the start of the war, 92 prisoners have been martyred, and the occupation authorities still hold the bodies of 87 of them. The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Prisoners Club reported that about 350 children are held in Ofer and Megiddo prisons, subjected to violations including starvation, torture, and denial of medical treatment.