Israeli Jails Systematically Subject Palestinian Prisoners to Inhumane Treatment: Report

IQNA – The Israeli regime’s prison system is employing inhumane tactics—including deliberate starvation, punitive shackling, and extreme overcrowding—against thousands of Palestinian detainees, a report said.

More than 9,000 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to the report by the rights organization B’Tselem that describes the inhumane treatment they endure.

The report said at least 84 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention centers since October 2023. The Israeli regime has yet to hand over 80 of the bodies.

According to testimonies gathered by B’Tselem, Palestinians face systematic physical, psychological and sexual abuse.

The organization described Israeli prisons as a network of torture camps.

It said the denial of medical care for prisoners is a method of torture itself and leads to irreversible harm, such as amputations and loss of hearing and eyesight.

The report stated living conditions in Israeli prisons remain inhumane with overcrowding, prolonged shackling, deliberate starvation and the denial of basic hygiene.

Source: Al Jazeera