#palestinian-detainees

#palestinian-detainees

Palestinian prisoners in Israel already face horrific conditions, with a rights group documenting the deaths of at least 94 of them in the past two years, and the rape of prisoners caught on camera. The far-right Israeli minister responsible for prisons, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has proudly declared that conditions have gotten harsher for Palestinian prisoners under his watch. And in late October, he stood over Palestinian prisoners forced to lie face-down on the floor.

US President Donald Trump has told the Israeli parliament that Monday was "a day of profound joy" and a day to give praise to the "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." "The hostages are back; it feels so good to say it," he said. "This is the end of an age of terror and death" and the beginning of turning the Middle East into "a truly magnificent region, Trump went on.

A new investigation finds that only a quarter of Palestinian detainees in Israel are linked to fighting groups. Israeli military intelligence believes that only a quarter of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held by Israel are fighters, according to a joint investigation released on Thursday by the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972, the Hebrew-language magazine Local Call, and the British newspaper The Guardian.