For three years now, Israel’s prisons for Palestinian inmates have operated as torture camps. Hunger, severe violence, scabies and brutal living conditions are part of everyday life for thousands of prisoners. None of this happens in the shadows. It is declared policy, now central to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s election campaign. The facts have been laid bare in investigations by the world’s leading news outlets, reports by human rights organizations and petitions to the High Court of Justice. The Israeli public has largely remained indifferent.
