Israeli Minister Ben Gvir Boasts of Worsening Prison Conditions for Palestinian Detainees in Israeli Jails
Ben Gvir said he had reduced prisoners to the bare minimum as activists accused Israeli authorities of physical and sexual abuse.
- National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir toured Israeli prisons holding female inmates on Sunday, boasting that "the summer camps in the prisons are over" as he highlighted efforts to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners.
- Ben Gvir, who has a history of provocative actions, seeks to boost his coalition's standing as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces struggling poll numbers ahead of Oct 27 elections.
- In a video posted two months before elections, a veiled woman identified as Yasmine Shaaban claimed prisoners face "extremely bad" conditions, stating "We haven't bathed for three days and we haven't changed our underwear."
- The Palestinian Authority's Commission on Detainees Affairs condemned the video as "brutality, hatred and racism," while Hamas-run Gaza authorities called it a reflection of the regime's "depths of depravity."
- Earlier this year, Ben Gvir drew international condemnation for suggesting Israel should kill 30 to 40 Palestinians each night in Gaza, and he taunted activists saying "welcome to Israel" as they were forced to kneel.
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The extremist Israeli Minister, Atmar Ben Ghafir, is employing the suffering of Palestinian captives and prisoners in propaganda sections, boasting of the policies of bullying against them.
Itamar Ben Gvir welcomed the deterioration in the conditions of detention of Palestinian prisoners.
The detention conditions in Israeli prisons are harsh. In a women's prison, a Palestinian complains that she herself is denied basic needs. Ben-Gvir, the responsible security minister, is satisfied with this during a visit.
The Israeli Minister of National Security, who has been used to statements hostile to the Palestinians and publications causing indignation, repeated during a visit to prison this Sunday, a few weeks before the parliamentary elections.
Israel's far-right national security minister boasted on Sunday during a visit to a prison that had worsened conditions for Palestinian women held there.
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