Injured Palestinian freed after leg amputation in 'Israeli' custody

'Israeli' authorities have released injured Palestinian detainee Tareq Mohammad Abdel Bani Odeh, 19, from the town of Tammun, south of Tubas, after months of treatment that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Wednesday that Bani Odeh was transferred to the government hospital in the city of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, upon his release.

He was arrested on May 8, 2025, from his home in Tammun after 'Israeli' forces shot him in both legs. He was taken to 'Israel’s' Afula Hospital, where one leg was amputated, and remained under detention there until his release.

Rights groups focusing on prisoners’ issues say that alongside the ongoing war in Gaza, 'Israeli' authorities are committing abuses against Palestinian detainees that “amount to war crimes.”

According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the current period is “the deadliest in the history of the prisoners’ movement,” with 313 Palestinian detainees killed in 'Israeli' custody since 1967, including 76 since the start of the war on Gaza.

As of early August, 'Israel' held 10,800 Palestinian detainees, including 49 women, 450 children, and 2,378 classified as “unlawful combatants,” according to earlier figures from the Prisoners’ Society.