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Detailed report by B'Tselem documenting the systematic, inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, featuring testimonies from Palestinians across the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Israel. The testimonies reveal an institutional policy of torture and abuse, including arbitrary violence, sexual assault, deliberate starvation, unsafe prison conditions, denial of religious accommodation, and psychological humiliation, among other forms of inhumane treatment. The 118-page report extensively covers Israel’s system of mass incarceration, the abuses of the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and Initial Reaction Force (IRF) under National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and deaths of Palestinians in military custody. This report is valuable for research on the Israeli prison system and mass incarceration, human rights abuses in the West Bank, Israeli military occupation and courts, and state-authorized torture in the OPT.
