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The
death earlier this month in an Israeli prison of Khader Adnan, a senior member
of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) organization, has
received worldwide coverage in major media outlets, including CNN, BBC, The
Guardian, Reuters, and The New York Times.
Meanwhile,
two Palestinian men detained by the Islamist organization Hamas, which controls
the Gaza Strip, died after a supposed unexpected “deterioration” in their
health conditions in just the past month.
The
deaths of the men in Hamas custody, however, was not given nearly the same
attention by the international media and human rights organizations as the
death of Adnan. The same newspapers and media organizations that highlighted
the case of Adnan — who died after an 86-day hunger strike — chose to ignore
the deaths of the two Palestinian detainees in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The
United Nations, whose “experts” are now demanding “accountability” from the
Israeli government following Adnan’s death, also remained silent over the death
of the two men held by Hamas.
The
attitude of the mainstream media in the West, international agencies and human
rights organizations towards these deaths expose their double standards and
their ongoing obsession with Israel. The failure to report the deaths of the
two prisoners in Gaza underscores their apparent lack of concern for the human
rights of Palestinians living under the rule of Hamas, an extremist group
designated as a terror organization by the US, Canada, and the European Union,
among others.
The
media seem more worried about the human rights of Palestinian terrorists than
the rights of victims of Palestinian terrorists. Note, for example, how Omar
Shakir, the “Israel and Palestine” director of Human Rights Watch, hailed the
leader of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also designated by many
countries as a terror group. Has Shakir condemned the deaths of the two
Palestinian men in Hamas custody? Not yet.
Adnan
was neither tortured nor mistreated in Israeli prison. He chose to go on hunger
strike after his arrest in February 2023 on charges of membership in a terror
group and incitement to violence. He even refused to undergo medical evaluation
or receive medical treatment during the hunger strike. Adnan was fully aware
that he was putting his life at risk by refusing food and medical care. He made
a conscious decision, knowing full well it could lead to his death.
This
also was not Adnan’s first hunger strike in an Israeli prison. In the past, he
went on a hunger strike for several weeks, again putting his life at risk.
Then, after receiving assurances from Israeli authorities that his detention
would not be extended, he had ended his hunger strike.
The
stories of the two Palestinian men who died in Hamas custody are vastly different
from that of Adnan.
The
first man, Mohammed Al-Sufi, 43, was an Islamic preacher from the town of Rafah
in the southern Gaza Strip. On April 20, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of
Interior announced the death of Al-Sufi.
Al-Sufi’s
16-year-old son, Abdullah, told the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that
his father and he were arrested on April 19 by Hamas security officers shortly
after they returned home from a visit to Egypt. Abdullah said that he was
punched and beaten by the officers, who accused his father and him of smuggling
drugs into the Gaza Strip. He also said that he heard his father being
interrogated in a nearby room and denying the charges. After a while, he heard
the officers calling his father to wake up. Hours later, at Abu Yusef Annajar
Hospital, Al-Sufi was pronounced dead.
Al-Sufi’s
family insist he died from torture while in Hamas custody. They say he was
arrested because he had criticized Hamas for serving as a proxy for Iran, which
he said was responsible for killing Muslims in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and the
Gaza Strip. The family has threatened to avenge his death at the hands of the
“Hamas gangs.”
Al-Sufi’s
family and friends published a poster on social media with his picture
alongside a caption reading:
“I’m Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sufi. I was assassinated by Hamas on
orders from Iran because I criticized the killers of Muslims in Syria and
Iraq.”
Foreign
journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have so far failed to
report about the death of the two Palestinians. Foreign journalists did not
visit, or even try to contact, the families of the two men who died in Hamas
custody in the Gaza Strip. The UN and human rights organizations — who
expressed so much concern over the death of the hunger striker in an Israeli
prison — have yet to comment on the suspicious deaths of the two Palestinians
in Hamas detention in the Gaza Strip, which could constitute crimes against
humanity.
No
one cares about the two men who died in Hamas custody, apparently because
Israel is not associated with their deaths. Had Al-Sufi and Al-Louh died in an
Israeli prison, they would have made headlines in The New York Times,
the BBC and CNN.
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