Israeli court closes case into Palestinian teen’s death despite evidence of starvation
Human rights experts slam court ruling and ongoing impunity as prisoner deaths mount

An Israeli court has drawn criticism after closing an investigation into the death of a Palestinian teenager in custody, despite finding indications he had been starved prior to his death.

Walid Ahmad, a 17-year-old from the occupied West Bank, died in Israeli custody in March 2025, six months after he was detained for allegedly throwing stones, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

Judge Ehud Kaplan ruled the case should be closed, stating there was no proven link between Ahmad’s deteriorating physical condition, such as severe weight loss and infection, and the immediate cause of his death. Details of the ruling emerged on Tuesday after a gag order was lifted.

Nadia Dakka, a human rights lawyer who has followed the case, criticised the decision as reflecting a narrow legal approach that fails to address the broader conditions contributing to detainees’ deaths.

“There are indications that he died as a result of starvation, but the discussion focused on whether starvation was the immediate cause of death,” she told Middle East Eye.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-court-closes-case-palestinian-teen-death-despite-evidence-starvation

#starvation

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher

#humanitarian #crisis in #Sudan continues to play out with 100s of thousand dead and 10s of millions displaced.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #drought #heatwave #migration #adaptation #water #food #land #hunger #starvation

https://unctad.org/publication/strait-hormuz-disruptions-implications-global-trade-and-development

What is at stake in the future of the #Hormuz strait.

#war #iran #US #israel #oil #gas #fertilizer #urea #sulfur #food #agriculture #cooking #jobs #employment #remittances #hunger #starvation #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

Today's poem:

The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610*
- by Henry Hart

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/811954433158184960/the-starving-time-jamestown-1610?source=share

#jamestown #poetry #HenryHart #starvation #cannibalism

End #Toxic #Greed

Our global #food system is broken; #CorporateGreed is to blame

Families, communities, local farmers face devastating impacts of #ClimateChange from extreme weather to higher food costs; handful of #billionaires running #BigAg profit

They expand cruel, #polluting factory farms, #poison #waterways, eat up forests

Politicians let corporate destroyers & billionaires off the hook

Time to choose people over #profit

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-big-meat-and-dairy/?utm_source=mastodon_fediverse

#PeopleNotProfits #starvation

There is perhaps no experience so profound as being involved in another human's final moments in this life.

And nothing so surreal as sitting with someone in #hospice while reading news about #war in #Iran and #Gaza, and humanitarian crises of #starvation, #violence, and pilferage perpetuated by the #rich and those in #power.

#Humanity is unspeakably beautiful and ineffably cruel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/19/visual-guide-oil-and-gas-site-attacks-middle-east

In a decent world, weaning away from #oil #gas while protecting the #poor would have been the just energy transition. Now we have the worst kind of world. Sudden destruction of #oil #gas infrastructure and NO protection for the poor. Rock and hard place for the poor. Die of #climatechange or from #starvation due to fertilizer shortage.