{"id":657157,"date":"2026-10-26T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657157\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:58:10","slug":"israel-punishes-8-palestinian-prisoners-over-cake-celebrating-ben-gvirs-possible-election-driven-exit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657157\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel punishes 8 Palestinian prisoners over cake celebrating Ben-Gvir\u2019s possible election-driven exit: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Said Amori and Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n<p>26 October 2026\u2022Update: 26 October 2026<\/p>\n<p>Israel placed eight Palestinian prisoners in solitary confinement for making a cake to celebrate the possible departure of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from the government, Israel Hayom reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoners at Lavi prison had saved food over several days to make the cake, hoping the Oct. 27 election would end Ben-Gvir\u2019s tenure, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Prison staff found the cake in a cell, prompting officials to order disciplinary proceedings against the eight and send them to solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir, whose ministry oversees the Israel Prison Service, has tightened restrictions on Palestinian prisoners, including cutting food allocations and prison amenities.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he retains his post will depend on the election results and coalition negotiations involving his Jewish Power party.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian rights groups accuse Israeli authorities of systematic abuses against prisoners including torture, starvation, solitary confinement and denial of medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Said Amori and Tarek Chouiref 26 October 2026\u2022Update: 26 October 2026 Israel placed eight Palestinian prisoners in solitary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-657157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657157","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=657157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}