RAMALLAH, October 23, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) confirmed that the Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir continues his public incitement to maintain a systematic policy of genocide inside Israeli prisons, through his repeated calls to kill and torture Palestinian detainees.
These calls are promoted on social media platforms, with the support of a powerful media machine that serves as one of the main arms of Israel’s apparatus of brutality.
The PPS said in a statement, this incitement coincides with dangerous legislative moves within the Knesset aimed at passing a law to execute Palestinian detainees and establishing an exceptional court devoid of any judicial guarantees to try detainees from the Gaza Strip.
It pointed out that these legal processes, which began with preliminary approvals, represent a dangerous shift toward legitimizing crimes against detainees and transforming killing and execution into practices based on legal cover.
The PPS emphasized that the testimonies provided by Palestinian detainees who were released after completing their sentences or within the framework of the recent ceasefire agreement reveal an unprecedented level of brutality and crimes committed against them during arrests or detention, especially since the beginning of the Israeli genocide on Gaza.
It emphasized that the accounts of the released detainees and the recently returned bodies of the martyrs, which reveal atrocities and systematic field executions against Gaza detainees, call for an urgent and independent international investigation into these crimes, based on available evidence.
The organization noted that the policy of extermination continues inside prisons, and that the extreme right-wing parties in the occupying state exploit the issue of detainees as a tool for incitement and electoral propaganda. Right-wing leaders compete every election season to demonstrate greater cruelty and brutality toward Palestinian detainees.
It also emphasized that this approach is not a passing behavior, but rather a policy deeply rooted in the structure and practices of the occupation regime for decades.
The PPS, along with relevant institutions, reiterated its assertion that what is happening in Israeli prisons constitutes an extension of the war of genocide, and that the announced numbers of martyrs among detainees reflect only a small part of the extent of the crimes and violations, including physical and psychological torture, starvation, denial of medical treatment, humiliation, and sexual assault, including rape.
It called on the international community to form an independent and comprehensive international investigation committee into the crimes committed against Palestinian detainees, including premeditated killings and field executions, which fall within the framework of genocide.
The PPS also called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to immediately resume its visits to prisons and pressure the occupation authorities to allow detainees' families to visit their loved ones without restrictions.
According to PPS, over 9,100 Palestinian detainees remain inside Israeli custody, in addition to hundreds held in Israeli military camps.
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