Ongoing harrowing accounts emerge from Palestinians held captive in Israeli detention facilities and prisons, detailing fatalities due to beatings and medical negligence, widespread torture, and harsh, degrading treatment. These dire conditions, while not novel, are deteriorating.
Israel doubles number of Palestinian prisoners to 9000 in two weeks including over 300 women and 200 children. Since October 7 , 1,070 people who have been arrested are being transferred to administrative detention.
Nearly 40% of Palestinian political detainees remain uncharged, with many facing accusations related to political or civil expressions, or breaches of unjust apartheid laws. Those subjected to trials encounter an astonishing conviction rate exceeding 99% in military tribunals structured to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes.
Israel’s unlawful, colonial apparatus of administrative detention, military tribunals, and mass imprisonment forms the bedrock of the apartheid regime imposed on Palestinians. The reluctance to scrutinize and denounce this structure, along with the broader political context it reinforces, underscores the entrenched dehumanization and erasure of Palestinians within the international framework.
The realities of Gaza and Israeli penitentiaries epitomize a wider colonial framework of brutality, ultimately leading towards genocide.
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Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian youth for throwing stones at their checkpoint in Ras al-Amud neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Friday Sept. 23, 2011, just hours before their president, Mahmoud Abbas, was to deliver his widely anticipated request to the UN. Photo by Mahfouz Abu Turk 
Captured and detained Palestinians sit on a street in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, as Israeli soldiers stand guard, amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas this handout image obtained by Reuters on December 8, 2023. 
A police officer keeps watch from an observation tower at the Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021. – Six Palestinians escaped from a prison in northern Israel through a tunnel dug beneath a sink, triggering a massive manhunt for the group that includes a prominent ex-militant, officials said. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) 
FILE – Israeli police detain a Palestinian in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following a raid of the site in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Israel is holding 1,201 detainees — nearly all of them Palestinians —without charge or trial, the highest number in over three decades, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File) 
GAZA CITY, GAZA – SEPTEMBER 18: Protesters hold banners during a demonstration in support of Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons in Gaza City, Gaza on September 18, 2023. Palestinians demonstrated in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) building in Gaza City, carrying photos of the detainees in Israeli prisons. ( Ali Jadallah – Anadolu Agency ) 
