{"id":291054,"date":"2026-02-14T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:34:11","slug":"israels-ben-gvir-storms-ofer-prison-oversees-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291054\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Ben-Gvir storms Ofer Prison, oversees abuse of Palestinian detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel&#8217;s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday forced his way into Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, in a visit marked by intimidation and abuse of Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Ben-Gvir entered the prison accompanied by senior police officials, including Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai, days before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Israel\u2019s Channel 7 reported, saying that stun grenades were fired near Palestinian prisoners\u2019 cells during the visit.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Ben-Gvir, known for publishing inflammatory videos targeting Palestinian detainees and repeatedly threatening them, has openly boasted about tightening prison conditions for Palestinians since taking office in late 2022.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">During his tour, he said the changes imposed on prisons were \u201cnot enough\u201d and vowed to push for legislation allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cThis is not a luxury hotel. It is a real prison,\u201d Ben-Gvir said, expressing satisfaction with what he described as a \u201cfundamental change\u201d in detention conditions.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Conditions for Palestinian prisoners have sharply deteriorated under Ben-Gvir\u2019s tenure amid severe restrictions, widespread abuse and noticeable weight loss among detainees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday forced his way into Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-291054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}