Hamas blasts ‘torture and brutality’ against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a scathing denunciation of the Israeli regime over the treatment of Palestinian prisoners, describing their conditions as “inhumane” and warning that the world could not remain silent while such brutality continued.

In a statement on Monday, the resistance movement condemned the regime for systematic abuse and torture, including the arbitrary detention of thousands under “administrative detention” without charge or trial.

“Our prisoners face physical and psychological repression, deliberate medical neglect, denial of family visits, starvation, and life-threatening restrictions,” the statement read.

The movement condemned the international community’s silence, noting that over 9,300 Palestinians were currently languishing in Israeli jails. The group demanded that the United Nations, international rights organizations, and humanitarian bodies inspect prisons without restriction, hold Israeli authorities accountable, and enforce the Geneva Conventions concerning the inmates’ rights.

The statement called on Arab, Islamic, and global groups to launch sweeping solidarity campaigns for the prisoners, emphasizing, “Our prisoners are not numbers, but human beings with rights, lives, and dignity.”

These denunciations followed grim reports from Palestinian prisoner rights groups, which have documented a campaign of systematic genocide.

According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Addameer, 32 Palestinians, including a child, were killed in Israeli custody in 2025 alone. Since October 2023, the death toll in detention has reached 100.

Rights groups report that 94 bodies remain withheld by Israeli authorities, while dozens of detainees from the Gaza Strip remain forcibly disappeared.

Testimonies from recently released prisoners describe deliberate torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual abuse, prolonged solitary confinement, and methods designed to break prisoners physically and mentally.

Large-scale arrests, meanwhile, continue unabated. Over 21,000 Palestinians have been detained since October 2023, including 1,655 children and 650 women. In 2025 alone, some 7,000 arrests were recorded, including 600 children and 200 women. Families of detainees from Gaza have been denied any information about their loved ones’ whereabouts.

The United Nations has also reported severe abuses, citing the targeting of journalists, medical personnel, and civilians.

Rights groups say these arrests are accompanied by beatings, home demolitions, confiscation of property, use of human shields, and organized terror against detainees’ families.

Many prisoners suffer from chronic illnesses, with a significant number dying in custody or shortly after release due to deliberate medical neglect.

According to Palestinian organizations, systematic impunity in Israeli prisons reflects a judicial system that covers up crimes and enforces policies of apartheid and persecution.

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