RAMALLAH, Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 (WAFA) - According to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), the number of Palestinian detainees who were killed in Israeli prisons and detention camps as a result of torture since the beginning of the Israeli aggression and genocide on October 7, 2023, is the highest in the history of the Palestinian prisoners' movement.
In a joint statement issued on the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which falls annually on June 26, the Commission and PPS emphasized that the Israeli occupation system has resorted to the crime of torture against prisoners and detainees since its occupation of the land of Palestine.
The number of detainees killed since the beginning of the genocide has reached at least 18, along with dozens of Gaza detainees who died in Israeli custody and their identities remain unknown.
The occupation has practiced the crime of torture against Palestinian detainees as an approach and worked to develop many tools to consolidate it. “The occupation has turned every right recognized by the international prisoners’ system into an instrument of torture.”
Since the beginning of the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, more than 9,400 Palestinians have been detained in the West Bank, along with thousands of Gazans and hundreds of Palestinians from the 1948-occupied land. Since then, an unprecedented escalation in the level and intensity of torture acts has been recorded; which is reflected in dozens of detainees’ testimonies, together with the photos of the detainees who are released, which formed a piece of additional evidence.
They stressed that all retaliatory action imposed on detainees since the onset of the genocide affected all groups, including women and children. The actions included starvation, systematic medical crimes, mass isolation and the denial of all rights that form the basis for preserving the life and dignity of the detainee.
Detainees are subjected to torture and various forms of abuse, including sexual assault and rape, all of which have led to the killing of several detainees, added the statement.
The number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the beginning of June 2024 has reached over 9300, including more than 3400 administrative detainees.
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