100 Palestinian prisoners martyred in 2 years: What’s happening in Israeli prisons?
“Abdul Nasser Farwaneh,” an expert on Palestinian prisoners, said: “Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people has encompassed everyone, including Palestinian prisoners held in the occupation’s prisons.”
He added: “The occupation’s crimes against prisoners and detainees, both men and women, since October 7, 2023, are beyond imagination and boundless. What has been said so far is a drop in the ocean compared to the volume of crimes committed. Reports announced by lawyers and prisoners who have been released indicate inhuman and anti-human conditions.”
Farwaneh emphasized: “The prisoners are deprived of sleep and treatment and suffer from hunger, thirst, physical and mental torture.” “Sadiyeh Taiman” prison is a symbol of these horrific actions. What is happening inside this prison is similar to most of the occupation’s prisons.
He continued: “This situation testifies to Israel’s planned and organized actions against all prisoners, especially those detained from Gaza.”
The expert said: The actions against these prisoners are at the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity according to international law. The international community must fulfill its responsibilities and hold Israel accountable for these crimes.
“Amjad Al-Najjar, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, also announced the continuation of the policy of deliberate killing against Palestinian prisoners inside the occupation prisons and said: “The prisoners are struggling with difficult conditions inside the prisons.”
He warned about the planned killing of prisoners on the direct orders of Itamar Ben-Guer, the Minister of Internal Security of the Zionist regime, and the leaders of this regime.
Al-Najjar pointed to the increase in the number of martyrs of prisoners to more than a hundred since the beginning of the war in Gaza and added, “The martyrdom of ‘Hassan Sakhr Zawul’ and ‘Abdul Rahman Al-Sabatin’, which occurred recently, is clear evidence of the occupation cabinet’s approach to the planned killing of prisoners. In the twenty years before the Gaza war, only nine prisoners were martyred, but in two years this large number of prisoners have been martyred.
On the other hand, Hassan Abd Rabbo, another expert on Palestinian prisoners, said: The policies of the occupying cabinet, especially the positions of the extremist minister Ben Gweir, reflect an increasingly apartheid and vindictive approach against Palestinian prisoners. These policies aim to trample on the dignity of prisoners and their basic rights.
Abd Rabbo continued: The measures announced by Ben Gweir are in line with an aggressive and organized campaign against Palestinian prisoners.
He added: Ben Gweir has established new detention centers and is pursuing a policy of murder, torture, solitary confinement, and disappearance of prisoners. The discussion of establishing a new prison surrounded by crocodiles is also new evidence of the resentment of the occupying cabinet.
According to IRNA, while Israel’s destructive war against the Palestinian people continues throughout the land, another, equally deadly battle is taking place behind prison walls and closed cell doors, where the echo of iron footsteps mingles with screams and groans as Palestinian prisoners wage a silent battle with the machine of repression and deliberate neglect of the occupiers.
Palestinian prisoners, who should be protected by international law, have become the direct target of the occupiers’ revengeful and planned policies, and prisons have become arenas for gradual killing in the shadow of the humiliating silence and connivance of the international community.
Since October 2023, prisons have become places for implementing planned policies of torture, depriving prisoners of proper treatment and food, and causing their gradual death.
The plan to execute Palestinian prisoners was proposed by Ben-Gvir and received initial approval in the first reading in the Knesset, but still needs to be approved in the other two chambers to become law.
This plan has been met with widespread reactions, as analysts see it as a violation of the prisoners’ rights and an escalation of strict restrictions against them, especially at a time when Israeli attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are increasing.