The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Thursday that the Israeli occupation has entrenched a systematic policy of documenting and publicly circulating scenes of torture and abuse against Palestinian detainees, turning torture into a tool of humiliation and spectacle across the occupied system.
PPS stated that Israel continues to publish photos and video clips showing severe beatings, degrading treatment, and violent abuse of prisoners, including footage that amounts to crimes against humanity.
The latest example was an image of a detainee from the Gaza Strip shown naked and brutally bound, a scene the organization described as a shocking display of extreme humiliation added to a long record of violations accompanying the ongoing genocide.
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According to PPS, Israeli soldiers themselves are the primary source of many of these recordings, documenting torture and abuse inside prisons, military facilities, and holding sites.
Despite Israeli claims that such incidents are “isolated,” testimonies from detainees and field evidence confirm that these practices form part of an integrated institutional policy carried out across all levels of the occupation.
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The organization said videos published by Israel’s far‑right National Security Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir exemplify the normalization of torture, reinforcing a culture of impunity and encouraging public documentation of abuse as an accepted practice within Israel’s repressive apparatus.
PPS renewed its call on the international community and human rights institutions to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and act urgently to end Israel’s policy of impunity, which has enabled the continuation of crimes and entrenched genocidal practices—particularly those targeting Palestinian detainees.
The PPS said Israel’s torture practices have led to the death of more than one hundred prisoners since the beginning of the genocide in October 2023, with ninety identities publicly confirmed so far.
PPS warned that thousands of detainees remain held under harsh and dangerous conditions that threaten their lives and raise the risk of further crimes being committed against them.
