I’ve put this post in the category of health, as there is no category for human rights. This report drew from the testimonies of 21 Palestinians who were released under the Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange deal agreed upon in October 2025. It also acts as a continuation of B’Tselem’s previous report on the abuse of Palestinians detained by the occupying regime since October 7, 2023.
As one might expect, the report in it’s entirety has been completely ignored in the mainstream media. A quick search for “treatment of Palestinian prisoners”, did not find the report in the first two pages of results.
“All the findings taken together lead to an unequivocal conclusion: Israel is continuing its systemic, institutionalized policy of torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, approved and backed by the political system, the judicial system, the media, and, of course, the prison authorities themselves, which openly boast about the torturous conditions in which Palestinian inmates are held.”
At the same time …
Full report here. Health warning. Don’t read just after eating a meal.