Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

A mural shows the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in April 2023.A mural shows the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in April 2023.Marwan Barghouti spends his days huddled in a cramped, dark, solitary cell, with no way to tend to his wounds, and a shoulder injury from being dragged with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Former prisoners and numerous rights groups say that conditions inside Israeli jails for Palestinians changed overnight last October, after Hamas attacked towns and kibbutzim in southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking another 250 hostage.Palestinians hold photographs of detainees in Israel during a rally marking the annual prisoners' day in the West Bank city of Nablus on 17 April 2024.

“What Barghouti has endured amounts to torture, but that has become standard across all detention facilities since 7 October,” said Tal Steiner, of the rights group the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. The Israeli prison service did not respond when contacted for comment. Both PCATI and the International Committee of the Red Cross have been denied formerly routine visits to Israeli prisons since last October.

Every former detainee began their descriptions of detention with the lack of food, and their drastic weight loss in prison. Menus produced by the Israeli prison service show that Palestinian prisoners, referred to as “security prisoners” in the documentation, are given a different diet to other prisoners, one without meat or an ability to buy extra food from the canteen.

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