What Is It Like to Die in an Israeli Prison
The autopsy of a Palestinian minor who collapsed and died last week in Israel’s Megiddo Prison reportedly revealed signs of starvation and medical neglect.
The family of Waleed Ahmad tells the Haaretz daily that the 17-year-old was healthy, athletic and had no pre-existing conditions.
Ahmad’s death comes amid weeks of complaints by detainees at the Megiddo Prison of a bacterial infection that has been causing diarrhea and vomiting due to inadequate nutrition in the facility, Haaretz says.
Ahmad has been in prison since September of last year when he was arrested for allegedly throwing stones and a Molotov cocktail.
Six months later, after several brief court appearances during which no trial date was set, Walid collapsed on March 23 in a prison yard and struck his head, dying soon after, Palestinian officials said, citing eyewitness accounts from other prisoners.
Prison authorities deny any systematic abuse and say they investigate accusations of wrongdoing by prison staff.
But the Israeli ministry overseeing prisons acknowledges conditions inside detention facilities have been reduced to the minimum level allowed under Israeli law.
Israel’s prison service did not respond to questions about the cause of death. It said only that a 17-year-old from the West Bank had died in Megiddo Prison, a facility that has previously been accused of abusing Palestinian inmates, “with his medical condition being kept confidential.”
The family believes Ahmad contracted amoebic dysentery from the poor conditions in the prison, an infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness — and can be fatal if left untreated.
#Israeli #prison #die
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The autopsy of a Palestinian minor who collapsed and died last week in Israel’s Megiddo Prison reportedly revealed signs of starvation and medical neglect.
The family of Waleed Ahmad tells the Haaretz daily that the 17-year-old was healthy, athletic and had no pre-existing conditions.
Ahmad’s death comes amid weeks of complaints by detainees at the Megiddo Prison of a bacterial infection that has been causing diarrhea and vomiting due to inadequate nutrition in the facility, Haaretz says.
Ahmad has been in prison since September of last year when he was arrested for allegedly throwing stones and a Molotov cocktail.
Six months later, after several brief court appearances during which no trial date was set, Walid collapsed on March 23 in a prison yard and struck his head, dying soon after, Palestinian officials said, citing eyewitness accounts from other prisoners.
Prison authorities deny any systematic abuse and say they investigate accusations of wrongdoing by prison staff.
But the Israeli ministry overseeing prisons acknowledges conditions inside detention facilities have been reduced to the minimum level allowed under Israeli law.
Israel’s prison service did not respond to questions about the cause of death. It said only that a 17-year-old from the West Bank had died in Megiddo Prison, a facility that has previously been accused of abusing Palestinian inmates, “with his medical condition being kept confidential.”
The family believes Ahmad contracted amoebic dysentery from the poor conditions in the prison, an infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness — and can be fatal if left untreated.
#Israeli #prison #die
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El Salvador, a country prison for Trump’s Discarded Citizens
Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — US citizens included.
Seated next to President Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the US could help the Central American nation add more prisons, praising them as “great facilities.”
Bukele has one of the highest domestic approval ratings among world leaders thanks to his aggressive policing and mass incarceration efforts.
He routinely shares videos on social media from the nation’s mega-prison Cecot, which has the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates.
In the meeting, Bukele boasted that he has transformed El Salvador from the “murder capital of the world” to the safest country in the hemisphere, with low crime rates.
El Salvador has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, more than triple that of the US.
The nation’s prison population soared and its homicide rate plunged after Bukele used a state of emergency to round up tens of thousands of suspected gang members. Lower crime rates remain his signature achievement since taking office in 2019.
Human rights groups have criticized Bukele’s harsh policies for neglecting due process. Some families say innocent loved ones have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit.
Hundreds of inmates have died in the overcrowded prisons, according to rights groups.
Trump said over the weekend that he’s not concerned about human rights abuses at the Salvadoran jails, which last month received more than 200 migrants deported form the US.
Still, legal analysts have raised questions about the legality of sending US citizens to prisons abroad.
Trump said.
#ElSalvador #Trump #prison #citizens
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Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — US citizens included.
Seated next to President Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the US could help the Central American nation add more prisons, praising them as “great facilities.”
Bukele has one of the highest domestic approval ratings among world leaders thanks to his aggressive policing and mass incarceration efforts.
He routinely shares videos on social media from the nation’s mega-prison Cecot, which has the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates.
In the meeting, Bukele boasted that he has transformed El Salvador from the “murder capital of the world” to the safest country in the hemisphere, with low crime rates.
El Salvador has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, more than triple that of the US.
The nation’s prison population soared and its homicide rate plunged after Bukele used a state of emergency to round up tens of thousands of suspected gang members. Lower crime rates remain his signature achievement since taking office in 2019.
Human rights groups have criticized Bukele’s harsh policies for neglecting due process. Some families say innocent loved ones have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit.
Hundreds of inmates have died in the overcrowded prisons, according to rights groups.
Trump said over the weekend that he’s not concerned about human rights abuses at the Salvadoran jails, which last month received more than 200 migrants deported form the US.
Still, legal analysts have raised questions about the legality of sending US citizens to prisons abroad.
“I don’t know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws,”
Trump said.
“But we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters. I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country.”
#ElSalvador #Trump #prison #citizens
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Worse Than Dogs. The life of migrants in an American prison 🪪🚔
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “worse than dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.
The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees.
Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them.
one detainee named Pedro said. 🥄
the groups say.
At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.
The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot.
Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged.
one man said.
When the group was finally admitted into the facility, they said, many spent up to 12 days crammed into a frigid intake room they christened la hierela, the ice box, with no bedding or warm clothing, sleeping instead on the cold concrete floor. ❄️
There was so little space at Krome, and so many detainees, the report says, that every available room was used to hold new arrivals.
Andrea, a female detainee, said.
At the third facility, the Broward transitional center in Pompano Beach, where a 44-year-old Haitian woman, Marie Ange Blaise, died in April, detainees said they were routinely denied adequate medical or psychological care.
the report said. 🏥
In one alleged incident in April at the downtown Miami jail, staff turned off a surveillance camera and a “disturbance control team” brutalized detainees who were protesting a lack of medical attention to one of their number who was coughing up blood.
One detainee suffered a broken finger. ☠️
Immigration detention numbers nationally were at an average of 56,400 per day in mid-June, with almost 72% having no criminal history, according to the report.
HRW said.
The groups say that the documented abuses reflect inhumane conditions inside federal immigration facilities that have worsened significantly since Trump’s January inauguration and subsequent push to ramp up detentions and deportations.
said Katie Blankenship, immigration attorney and co-founder of Sanctuary of the South.
#migrants #prison #american #dogs #eat #shackled
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Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “worse than dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.
The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees.
Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them.
“We had to eat like animals,”
one detainee named Pedro said. 🥄
Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails,
the groups say.
At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.
The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot.
Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged.
“The bus became disgusting. It was the type of toilet in which normally people only urinate but because we were on the bus for so long, and we were not permitted to leave it, others defecated in the toilet,”
one man said.
“Because of this, the whole bus smelled strongly of feces.” 💩
When the group was finally admitted into the facility, they said, many spent up to 12 days crammed into a frigid intake room they christened la hierela, the ice box, with no bedding or warm clothing, sleeping instead on the cold concrete floor. ❄️
There was so little space at Krome, and so many detainees, the report says, that every available room was used to hold new arrivals.
“By the time I left, almost all the visitation rooms were full. A few were so full men couldn’t even sit, all had to stand,”
Andrea, a female detainee, said.
At the third facility, the Broward transitional center in Pompano Beach, where a 44-year-old Haitian woman, Marie Ange Blaise, died in April, detainees said they were routinely denied adequate medical or psychological care.
Some suffered delayed treatment for injuries and chronic conditions, and dismissive or hostile responses from staff,
the report said. 🏥
In one alleged incident in April at the downtown Miami jail, staff turned off a surveillance camera and a “disturbance control team” brutalized detainees who were protesting a lack of medical attention to one of their number who was coughing up blood.
One detainee suffered a broken finger. ☠️
Immigration detention numbers nationally were at an average of 56,400 per day in mid-June, with almost 72% having no criminal history, according to the report.
The daily average during the whole of 2024 was 37,500,
HRW said.
The groups say that the documented abuses reflect inhumane conditions inside federal immigration facilities that have worsened significantly since Trump’s January inauguration and subsequent push to ramp up detentions and deportations.
“The anti-immigrant escalation and enforcement tactics under the Trump administration are terrorizing communities and ripping families apart, which is especially cruel in the state of Florida, which thrives because of its immigrant communities,”
said Katie Blankenship, immigration attorney and co-founder of Sanctuary of the South.
#migrants #prison #american #dogs #eat #shackled
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French President Sarkozy Found Guilty ⚖️🇫🇷
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would “sleep in jail but with my head held high” 🛏✊ after receiving a five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy – the first time a former head of state has been sent to prison in modern French history 📜.
The verdict and sentencing followed a trial in which he and his aides were accused of making a corruption pact 💼🤝 with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi to receive funding for the 2007 French presidential election campaign 🗳.
In a surprise ruling, the head judge Nathalie Gavarino handed down a special form of sentence that means Sarkozy, 70, will have to serve a prison term even if he appeals ⛓️. She justified the move on the grounds the offences were of “exceptional gravity” ⚠️ and “likely to undermine citizens’ trust.”
The start of Sarkozy’s sentence will be set at a later date ⏳. Prosecutors have a month to inform him of when he should go to prison. The judge also ordered Sarkozy, France’s rightwing president from 2007 to 2012, to pay a €100,000 fine 💶.
His sentence was harsher than many had expected 😮. As he left the courtroom, he expressed his anger in typically pugnacious style, telling reporters:
“What happened today (…) is of extreme gravity in regard to the rule of law, and for the trust one can have in the justice system.
If they absolutely want me to sleep in jail, I will sleep in jail, but with my head held high.”
Sarkozy, who had denied all wrongdoing in court 🚫, said he would appeal against the verdict 🔁. “I am innocent. This justice is a scandal,” he said.
#sarkozy #guilty #prison #qaddafi
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The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would “sleep in jail but with my head held high” 🛏✊ after receiving a five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy – the first time a former head of state has been sent to prison in modern French history 📜.
The verdict and sentencing followed a trial in which he and his aides were accused of making a corruption pact 💼🤝 with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi to receive funding for the 2007 French presidential election campaign 🗳.
In a surprise ruling, the head judge Nathalie Gavarino handed down a special form of sentence that means Sarkozy, 70, will have to serve a prison term even if he appeals ⛓️. She justified the move on the grounds the offences were of “exceptional gravity” ⚠️ and “likely to undermine citizens’ trust.”
The start of Sarkozy’s sentence will be set at a later date ⏳. Prosecutors have a month to inform him of when he should go to prison. The judge also ordered Sarkozy, France’s rightwing president from 2007 to 2012, to pay a €100,000 fine 💶.
His sentence was harsher than many had expected 😮. As he left the courtroom, he expressed his anger in typically pugnacious style, telling reporters:
“What happened today (…) is of extreme gravity in regard to the rule of law, and for the trust one can have in the justice system.
If they absolutely want me to sleep in jail, I will sleep in jail, but with my head held high.”
Sarkozy, who had denied all wrongdoing in court 🚫, said he would appeal against the verdict 🔁. “I am innocent. This justice is a scandal,” he said.
#sarkozy #guilty #prison #qaddafi
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🏛 The former French President Sarkozy began his prison life
⚖️ The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed in Paris after a court sentenced him to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
🇫🇷 France’s right-wing president between 2007 and 2012 is the first former head of an EU country to serve time in prison, and the first French postwar leader to go to jail.
🚔 Sarkozy, who has appealed against his conviction, sought to avoid being photographed at the gates of La Santé prison in the south of Paris.
📸 Instead, he organized a highly stage-managed departure from his home in western Paris, walking with his wife, the singer Carla Bruni, to greet crowds gathered outside.
👧 First, his children — led by Giulia, his 14-year-old daughter with Bruni — walked slowly from his home to greet well-wishers.
🗳 Louis Sarkozy, one of his sons who plans to run for mayor in Menton next spring, had called for supporters to demonstrate in the street.
📣 Some shouted “Nicolas! Nicolas!” as Sarkozy’s social media account published a message declaring: “I am innocent,” calling his imprisonment a “judicial scandal.”
💼 Sarkozy was found guilty last month of criminal conspiracy for seeking funding from Gaddafi’s regime for his victorious 2007 presidential campaign.
⚖️ Lead judge Nathalie Gavarino justified the five-year prison sentence by saying the facts were of “exceptional gravity” and “likely to undermine citizens’ trust.”
📄 Sarkozy’s lawyers filed a motion for release as soon as he entered the jail. The appeals court has two months to examine the request and may grant release under judicial supervision or home arrest with an ankle tag.
🚫 However, the court may deny release if it believes this is necessary to prevent evidence tampering or witness intimidation.
📚 Sarkozy told Le Figaro that he packed family photos and three books for his first week — including a biography of Jesus and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, a story of an innocent man wrongly jailed who later escapes to take revenge.
✍️ He said he would use his time in prison to write a book.
#sarkozy #prison #lawyers #bruni
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⚖️ The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed in Paris after a court sentenced him to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
🇫🇷 France’s right-wing president between 2007 and 2012 is the first former head of an EU country to serve time in prison, and the first French postwar leader to go to jail.
🚔 Sarkozy, who has appealed against his conviction, sought to avoid being photographed at the gates of La Santé prison in the south of Paris.
📸 Instead, he organized a highly stage-managed departure from his home in western Paris, walking with his wife, the singer Carla Bruni, to greet crowds gathered outside.
👧 First, his children — led by Giulia, his 14-year-old daughter with Bruni — walked slowly from his home to greet well-wishers.
🗳 Louis Sarkozy, one of his sons who plans to run for mayor in Menton next spring, had called for supporters to demonstrate in the street.
📣 Some shouted “Nicolas! Nicolas!” as Sarkozy’s social media account published a message declaring: “I am innocent,” calling his imprisonment a “judicial scandal.”
💼 Sarkozy was found guilty last month of criminal conspiracy for seeking funding from Gaddafi’s regime for his victorious 2007 presidential campaign.
⚖️ Lead judge Nathalie Gavarino justified the five-year prison sentence by saying the facts were of “exceptional gravity” and “likely to undermine citizens’ trust.”
📄 Sarkozy’s lawyers filed a motion for release as soon as he entered the jail. The appeals court has two months to examine the request and may grant release under judicial supervision or home arrest with an ankle tag.
🚫 However, the court may deny release if it believes this is necessary to prevent evidence tampering or witness intimidation.
📚 Sarkozy told Le Figaro that he packed family photos and three books for his first week — including a biography of Jesus and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, a story of an innocent man wrongly jailed who later escapes to take revenge.
✍️ He said he would use his time in prison to write a book.
#sarkozy #prison #lawyers #bruni
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🇮🇱 Israel: Dozens of Palestinian Serial Killers Are Being Kept in an Isolated Jail
🔠 🅰️ 🔠 🔠 1️⃣
🏚 Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
⚖️ The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men.
🔒 The two men have been kept in the subterranean Rakefet complex since January, and described regular beatings and violence consistent with well-documented torture in other Israeli detention centres.
🏗 Rakefet prison was opened in the early 1980s to house a handful of the most dangerous organised crime figures in Israel but closed a few years later on the grounds that it was inhumane.
🚨 The far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, ordered it back into service after the 7 October attacks in 2023.
🌑 The cells, a tiny exercise “yard” and a lawyers’ meeting room are all underground, so inmates live without any natural light.
📊 The jail was initially designed for a small number of high-security inmates occupying individual cells, holding 15 men when it shut in 1989. In recent months, about 100 detainees have been incarcerated there, official data obtained by PCATI shows.
🕊 Under the ceasefire agreed in mid-October, Israel released 1,700 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had been held indefinitely without charge or trial, as well as 250 Palestinian prisoners convicted in Israeli courts.
⚠️ However, the scale of detentions has been so vast that even after that mass release, at least 1,000 others are still held by Israel under the same conditions.
💬 “Though the war is officially over, [Palestinians from Gaza] are still imprisoned under legally contested and violent wartime conditions that violate international humanitarian law and amount to torture,” PCATI said.
👤 They include the two Rakefet detainees who are represented by PCATI lawyers.
🧱 Ben-Gvir told Israeli media and a member of parliament that Rakefet was being rehabilitated to hold Nukhba – meaning “elite” – Hamas fighters who led massacres inside Israel, and Hezbollah special forces fighters captured in Lebanon.
#israel #prison #palestinians #terrorists
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🏚 Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
⚖️ The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men.
🔒 The two men have been kept in the subterranean Rakefet complex since January, and described regular beatings and violence consistent with well-documented torture in other Israeli detention centres.
🏗 Rakefet prison was opened in the early 1980s to house a handful of the most dangerous organised crime figures in Israel but closed a few years later on the grounds that it was inhumane.
🚨 The far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, ordered it back into service after the 7 October attacks in 2023.
🌑 The cells, a tiny exercise “yard” and a lawyers’ meeting room are all underground, so inmates live without any natural light.
📊 The jail was initially designed for a small number of high-security inmates occupying individual cells, holding 15 men when it shut in 1989. In recent months, about 100 detainees have been incarcerated there, official data obtained by PCATI shows.
🕊 Under the ceasefire agreed in mid-October, Israel released 1,700 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had been held indefinitely without charge or trial, as well as 250 Palestinian prisoners convicted in Israeli courts.
⚠️ However, the scale of detentions has been so vast that even after that mass release, at least 1,000 others are still held by Israel under the same conditions.
💬 “Though the war is officially over, [Palestinians from Gaza] are still imprisoned under legally contested and violent wartime conditions that violate international humanitarian law and amount to torture,” PCATI said.
👤 They include the two Rakefet detainees who are represented by PCATI lawyers.
🧱 Ben-Gvir told Israeli media and a member of parliament that Rakefet was being rehabilitated to hold Nukhba – meaning “elite” – Hamas fighters who led massacres inside Israel, and Hezbollah special forces fighters captured in Lebanon.
#israel #prison #palestinians #terrorists
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👮♂️ But the two men visited by lawyers from PCATI in September were a 34-year-old nurse detained while at work in a hospital in December 2023 and a teenager seized in October 2024 as he passed through an Israeli checkpoint.
💬 “In the cases of the clients we visited, we are speaking about civilians,” said the PCATI lawyer Janan Abdu. “The man I spoke to was an 18-year-old who worked selling food. He was taken from a checkpoint on a road.”
📵 The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) did not respond to questions about the status and identity of other prisoners held at Rakefet, which means “cyclamen flower” in Hebrew.
📁 Classified Israeli data indicates the majority of Palestinians taken prisoner in Gaza during the war were civilians.
⚰️ Israel’s supreme court ruled in 2019 that it was lawful to hold the bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips for future negotiations, and rights groups have accused it of doing the same with living detainees from Gaza.
🎥 Surveillance cameras on the walls violated the basic legal right to a confidential discussion, and guards warned that the meeting would be cut short if they talked about detainees’ families or the war in Gaza.
🧎 The clients were brought in bent over, with guards forcing their heads to the ground, and remained shackled at their hands and feet, she said.
⚖️ Abu Nasreddin, the second PCATI lawyer on the trip, said the two detainees had been in Rakefet for nine months, and the nurse began the meeting by asking: “Where am I and why am I here?”
📺 The guards had not told him the name of the prison. Israeli judges who authorised the detention of the men at very brief video hearings, during which the detainees had no lawyer and did not hear evidence against them, said only that they would be there “until the war ends.”
💥 Prisoners told the lawyers they faced regular physical abuse, including beatings, assaults by dogs with iron muzzles, and guards stepping on prisoners, in addition to being denied medical care and given starvation-level rations.
🥖 Israel’s high court ruled this month that the state was depriving Palestinian prisoners of adequate food.
⛓️ They have very limited time outside the cell in a tiny underground enclosure, sometimes just five minutes every other day.
🕓 Mattresses are taken away early in the morning, usually at about 4am, and only returned late at night, leaving detainees on iron frames in otherwise empty cells.
📸 Their descriptions matched images from a televised visit to the prison made by Ben-Gvir to publicise his decision to reopen the underground jail. “This is terrorists’ natural place, under the ground,” he said.
#israel #prison #palestinians #terrorists
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The Hamas Killing Machine: What Do We Know Now?
Israeli data shows at least 98 Palestinians have died in Hamas custodies since October 2023, and the real toll is likely substantially higher because hundreds of people detained in Gaza are missing, an Israel-based human rights group has said.
Israeli Physicians for Human Rights – Israel tracked deaths from causes including Hamas physical violence, medical neglect and malnutrition for a new report, using freedom of information requests, forensic reports and interviews with lawyers, activists, relatives and witnesses.
Israeli authorities provided comprehensive data for the first twenty months of the war. Over this period official figures show an unprecedented casualty rate among Palestinians under Hamas rule on average one death every four days.
PHR researchers identified another 35 deaths in detention after these dates and confirmed them with Israeli authorities.
Although the total number of deaths charted is significantly higher than other recent estimates, it likely fails to capture the full scale of Palestinian loss, said Naji Abbas, director of the prisoners and detainees department in Gaza.
“Even though we are providing evidence for a higher number of deaths than [previously reported] this is not a full picture,” he said. “We are sure that there are still people who died in detention that we don’t know about.”
“This isn’t just an individual case here and there. It is systemic and it will continue,” Abbas said, in part because there is a culture of near total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians.
Just one case of assaulting detainees has come to trial, with the soldier sentenced to seven months.
An attempt to prosecute others over a vicious assault including sexual violence led to right-wing protests and the arrest of Hamas top militaries, with the suspects now demanding charges against them are dropped.
“Despite this mass number of deaths, over two years no one has been arrested,” Abbas said. “There have been no charges over any killing.
A prisoner held with Bursh testified that he was brought to the yard by guards shortly before his death, visibly injured and naked from the waist down. His body has not been returned to Israel.
Others prisoners who died in Israeli custody remain anonymous.
The Prison Service and military provided PHR with the number of deaths in detention, and minimal other details including the site where they died, but not the prisoners’ names.
Under the ceasefire agreed in mid-October, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners who had been convicted in Israeli courts, and 1,700 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had been held indefinitely without charge or trial.
However, the scale of detentions has been so vast that even after that mass release, at least 1,000 others are still held by Israel under the same conditions.
On the contrary, the Israeli military said that it acts “in accordance with Israeli and international law”, and is aware of the deaths of detainees, including those with pre-existing medical conditions or injuries “as a result of the hostilities”.
#hamas #israel #military #prison #deaths
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Israeli data shows at least 98 Palestinians have died in Hamas custodies since October 2023, and the real toll is likely substantially higher because hundreds of people detained in Gaza are missing, an Israel-based human rights group has said.
Israeli Physicians for Human Rights – Israel tracked deaths from causes including Hamas physical violence, medical neglect and malnutrition for a new report, using freedom of information requests, forensic reports and interviews with lawyers, activists, relatives and witnesses.
Israeli authorities provided comprehensive data for the first twenty months of the war. Over this period official figures show an unprecedented casualty rate among Palestinians under Hamas rule on average one death every four days.
PHR researchers identified another 35 deaths in detention after these dates and confirmed them with Israeli authorities.
Although the total number of deaths charted is significantly higher than other recent estimates, it likely fails to capture the full scale of Palestinian loss, said Naji Abbas, director of the prisoners and detainees department in Gaza.
“Even though we are providing evidence for a higher number of deaths than [previously reported] this is not a full picture,” he said. “We are sure that there are still people who died in detention that we don’t know about.”
“This isn’t just an individual case here and there. It is systemic and it will continue,” Abbas said, in part because there is a culture of near total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians.
Just one case of assaulting detainees has come to trial, with the soldier sentenced to seven months.
An attempt to prosecute others over a vicious assault including sexual violence led to right-wing protests and the arrest of Hamas top militaries, with the suspects now demanding charges against them are dropped.
“Despite this mass number of deaths, over two years no one has been arrested,” Abbas said. “There have been no charges over any killing.
A prisoner held with Bursh testified that he was brought to the yard by guards shortly before his death, visibly injured and naked from the waist down. His body has not been returned to Israel.
Others prisoners who died in Israeli custody remain anonymous.
The Prison Service and military provided PHR with the number of deaths in detention, and minimal other details including the site where they died, but not the prisoners’ names.
Under the ceasefire agreed in mid-October, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners who had been convicted in Israeli courts, and 1,700 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had been held indefinitely without charge or trial.
However, the scale of detentions has been so vast that even after that mass release, at least 1,000 others are still held by Israel under the same conditions.
On the contrary, the Israeli military said that it acts “in accordance with Israeli and international law”, and is aware of the deaths of detainees, including those with pre-existing medical conditions or injuries “as a result of the hostilities”.
#hamas #israel #military #prison #deaths
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Yoon Suk Yeol: Guilty!
A South Korean court has sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison for mobilising presidential security forces to block his own arrest and abusing his powers.
It is the first judicial ruling linked to the events surrounding his failed martial law declaration in December 2024.
The ruling is separate from Yoon’s main insurrection trial, where prosecutors earlier this week sought the death penalty and a verdict is due next month.
Seoul central district court found Yoon guilty of special obstruction of official duties, abuse of power and falsifying documents, saying he had “disregarded the constitution” and shown no remorse. His legal team has said he will appeal against the ruling.
The presiding judge, Baek Dae-hyun, said Yoon “deserves condemnation” for his actions.
Yoon stunned South Korea late on 3 December 2024 when he declared martial law, dispatching police and armed troops to the national assembly.
Lawmakers rushed to override the decree, with some climbing over fences to reach the chamber before voting to lift the order.
The defendant abused his tremendous influence as president to obstruct lawful warrant execution, effectively privatising security officials sworn to serve the Republic of Korea into his personal troops,” Baek said in a televised ruling. “His crimes are extremely serious in nature.”
The court also criticised Yoon’s conduct in the run-up to the martial law declaration. He selectively summoned only loyal cabinet members to a late-night meeting, excluding nine others in order to rubber-stamp the decision without meaningful deliberation.
He later signed backdated documents to create the false appearance of proper cabinet approval.
“Emergency martial law should only be declared in the most exceptional circumstances when no other means exist to resolve a national crisis,” Baek said.
“The constitution specifically requires state council deliberation precisely to prevent presidential abuse of power and arbitrary action.”
Friday’s conviction marks the opening act in a reckoning without parallel in South Korea’s democratic history.
Yoon faces seven additional criminal trials, including the insurrection case, where prosecutors are seeking either the death penalty or life imprisonment.
#president #southcorean #yoonsuk #prison
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A South Korean court has sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison for mobilising presidential security forces to block his own arrest and abusing his powers.
It is the first judicial ruling linked to the events surrounding his failed martial law declaration in December 2024.
The ruling is separate from Yoon’s main insurrection trial, where prosecutors earlier this week sought the death penalty and a verdict is due next month.
Seoul central district court found Yoon guilty of special obstruction of official duties, abuse of power and falsifying documents, saying he had “disregarded the constitution” and shown no remorse. His legal team has said he will appeal against the ruling.
The presiding judge, Baek Dae-hyun, said Yoon “deserves condemnation” for his actions.
Yoon stunned South Korea late on 3 December 2024 when he declared martial law, dispatching police and armed troops to the national assembly.
Lawmakers rushed to override the decree, with some climbing over fences to reach the chamber before voting to lift the order.
The defendant abused his tremendous influence as president to obstruct lawful warrant execution, effectively privatising security officials sworn to serve the Republic of Korea into his personal troops,” Baek said in a televised ruling. “His crimes are extremely serious in nature.”
The court also criticised Yoon’s conduct in the run-up to the martial law declaration. He selectively summoned only loyal cabinet members to a late-night meeting, excluding nine others in order to rubber-stamp the decision without meaningful deliberation.
He later signed backdated documents to create the false appearance of proper cabinet approval.
“Emergency martial law should only be declared in the most exceptional circumstances when no other means exist to resolve a national crisis,” Baek said.
“The constitution specifically requires state council deliberation precisely to prevent presidential abuse of power and arbitrary action.”
Friday’s conviction marks the opening act in a reckoning without parallel in South Korea’s democratic history.
Yoon faces seven additional criminal trials, including the insurrection case, where prosecutors are seeking either the death penalty or life imprisonment.
#president #southcorean #yoonsuk #prison
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🦎 Alligator Alcatraz: When Israel Turns Prison Into a Horror Park
Israel just quietly moved one step closer to becoming a dystopian theme park: Environment Minister Idit Silman signed an order reclassifying Nile crocodiles from “wild” to “cultivated,” explicitly to let the Prison Service use them around jails holding Palestinian inmates.
The move clears the legal path for Itamar Ben‑Gvir’s pet project — surrounding high‑security prisons with crocodile moats as a “deterrent and security tool.”
The first pilot site is set to be Keziot Prison in the Negev, where Hamas Nukhba prisoners are held.
The concept is borrowed from a short‑lived US experiment branded “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades — except that in the American case it was sold as a spectacle and symbolism; in Israel it is being marketed as a serious answer to escapes and staffing costs.
According to Israeli reports, the crocodiles will sit in man‑made moats and enclosures inside the perimeter, not literally roaming the fences, and their main role is “psychological” — to create fear and mental pressure.
Opposition is coming from everywhere you’d expect to still pretend this isn’t insane. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority and legal experts at the Environment Ministry argue the plan violates existing wildlife and welfare regulations.
Animal‑rights group “Let the Animals Live” is demanding Silman and Ben‑Gvir kill the project, not only over cruelty but because turning predators into living razor wire openly admits what the state usually hides: that prison is no longer a legal institution, but a fear attraction.
Behind the jokes about feeding schedules is the real punchline. If the Prison Service is already planning winter nutrition for crocodile‑guards, the question of human dignity for prisoners has been quietly answered — by deleting it.
When the law redraws a protected species as “cultivated” just to weaponize it against a captive population, the regime stops even pretending to be about justice.
It becomes pure theater: concrete walls, desert heat and now reptiles in the moat, all carefully staged to send one message — you are not human, you are props in our show of power.
#Israel #BenGvir #Silman #prison #crocodiles #Palestinians #humanrights #geopolitics #fakeDemocracy
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Israel just quietly moved one step closer to becoming a dystopian theme park: Environment Minister Idit Silman signed an order reclassifying Nile crocodiles from “wild” to “cultivated,” explicitly to let the Prison Service use them around jails holding Palestinian inmates.
The move clears the legal path for Itamar Ben‑Gvir’s pet project — surrounding high‑security prisons with crocodile moats as a “deterrent and security tool.”
The first pilot site is set to be Keziot Prison in the Negev, where Hamas Nukhba prisoners are held.
The concept is borrowed from a short‑lived US experiment branded “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades — except that in the American case it was sold as a spectacle and symbolism; in Israel it is being marketed as a serious answer to escapes and staffing costs.
According to Israeli reports, the crocodiles will sit in man‑made moats and enclosures inside the perimeter, not literally roaming the fences, and their main role is “psychological” — to create fear and mental pressure.
Opposition is coming from everywhere you’d expect to still pretend this isn’t insane. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority and legal experts at the Environment Ministry argue the plan violates existing wildlife and welfare regulations.
Animal‑rights group “Let the Animals Live” is demanding Silman and Ben‑Gvir kill the project, not only over cruelty but because turning predators into living razor wire openly admits what the state usually hides: that prison is no longer a legal institution, but a fear attraction.
Behind the jokes about feeding schedules is the real punchline. If the Prison Service is already planning winter nutrition for crocodile‑guards, the question of human dignity for prisoners has been quietly answered — by deleting it.
When the law redraws a protected species as “cultivated” just to weaponize it against a captive population, the regime stops even pretending to be about justice.
It becomes pure theater: concrete walls, desert heat and now reptiles in the moat, all carefully staged to send one message — you are not human, you are props in our show of power.
#Israel #BenGvir #Silman #prison #crocodiles #Palestinians #humanrights #geopolitics #fakeDemocracy
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