At least 98 Palestinians, mostly civilians, died in Israeli jails due to torture, neglect: Report
An Israel-based human rights group has revealed that at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023, with a parallel investigation indicating that most of the casualties were civilians.
According to Israeli data obtained by Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI), at least 98 Palestinians have died since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, in many cases because of torture, medical neglect, and starvation.
The report noted that the real death toll is likely substantially higher because hundreds of people detained in Gaza are missing.
“Even though we are providing evidence for a higher number of deaths than [previously reported] this is not a full picture,” Naji Abbas, director of the prisoners and detainees department at PHRI, said. “We are sure that there are still people who died in detention that we don’t know about.”
A parallel investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call said that classified Israeli data indicates the majority of Palestinian prisoners from Gaza who died in jail were civilians.
In its own reports, the Israeli military classified less than one-third of those Gazans who died in custody as resistance fighters, the investigation found.
Current and former detainees and whistleblowers from the Israeli military have all spoken about systemic violations of international law.
The institutionalized cruelty came with a disturbing increase in deaths registered across at least 12 civilian and military facilities in the Israeli-occupied territories. In the decade before the war, there were an average of two or three deaths a year.
“This isn’t just an individual case here and there. It is systemic and it will continue,” Abbas said, as Israeli forces kill and mistreat Palestinians with impunity.
“Despite this mass number of deaths, over two years, no one has been arrested,” Abbas said. “There have been no charges over any killing.”
“While these policies are being applied, every Palestinian in detention is in danger, even the healthy ones, even the young ones who have no [underlying] medical issues.”
Israel has so far killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians since launching the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, before a ceasefire deal, brokered by the United States, was reached in the strip last month.
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