Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir \u201cstepped on prisoners\u2019 heads\u201d at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank last Friday, a Palestinian rights group said Monday.<\/p>\n
Video footage on social media showed Israeli forces raiding a section of Ofer Prison near Ramallah and suppressing inmates held there, accompanied by Ben-Gvir and Israeli media coverage.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the raid targeted \u201cSection 26\u201d and took place during the evening “count”, also known as the \u201csecurity inspection.\u201d <\/p>\n
The operation lasted about 15 minutes and involved police dogs and stun grenades, with extensive media presence. <\/p>\n
\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bAccording to the statement, Ben-Gvir remained in the section for about an hour and delivered remarks that included what the group described as provocative and degrading language toward Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n
The group said Ben-Gvir insisted on publishing video clips documenting the suppression of detainees, alongside promotional slogans linked to proposed legislation to execute Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n
In November 2025, Israel\u2019s Knesset approved, in its first reading, a bill submitted by Ben-Gvir for issuing a death penalty for Palestinian prisoners accused of killing Israelis. The bill must pass second and third readings to become law, and no date has been set for further votes.<\/p>\n
The group said Ben-Gvir aims to \u201cboast of his ongoing crimes inside prisons and camps, which have become one of the most prominent arenas of the genocide crime, resulting in the killing of more than 100 prisoners and detainees, 88 of whose identities have been announced.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, it stressed that the published clips \u201crepresent only a small part of the systematic torture against prisoners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Testimonies heard by a lawyer with the rights group included \u201cseveral accounts of Ben-Gvir stepping on prisoners\u2019 heads and filming their humiliation, torture and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detainees also reported that \u201cguards forced them to keep their heads and faces pressed to the ground during suppression operations, to humiliate them, degrading their dignity and physically torturing them,\u201d according to the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir \u201cstepped on prisoners\u2019 heads\u201d at Ofer Prison in the occupied West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-294242","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\/294242","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=294242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}