Algerian Radio
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are subjected daily to severe crimes of torture and inhumane treatment in the prisons and military camps of the Zionist occupation, prisoner support groups denounced in a report published by the Palestinian NGO "Addameer."
In the wake of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, these prisons have been transformed into a central theater where the realities of this crime manifest in the cruelest ways, the associations lamented.
According to these organizations, this includes systematic and deep-seated policies of assassination, starvation, dehumanization, humiliation, and the deliberate infliction of severe physical and psychological suffering on detainees.
"These crimes have affected all categories of prisoners, including children, women, the elderly, the wounded, and the sick, in flagrant violation of the rules of international humanitarian law and international human rights law," the report states.
The document argues that the scale of Zionist crimes against Palestinian political prisoners since the start of the genocide against the Gaza Strip has surpassed the traditional conception of torture, whether in terms of scope, brutality, or the methods utilized.
Hundreds of testimonies and sworn statements collected by Palestinian human rights and prisoner support organizations confirm that torture is no longer a matter of individual violations or isolated practices.
Testimonies from detainees in Gaza highlight the extent of the atrocities committed inside the camps of the Zionist occupation army, which detainees described as places of slow death and organized torture.
"Our institutions also confirm that UN reports and mechanisms from 2025 and 2026 concluded that there is a systematic pattern of torture and ill-treatment against Palestinian political detainees," the associations recalled.
They emphasized that the refusal to grant the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and independent international bodies access to Palestinian detainees, alongside restrictions imposed on the work of lawyers and human rights organizations, constitutes "a systematic attempt to hide evidence and erase traces of the crimes committed within the (Zionist) prison system."
Denouncing the international silence regarding these crimes, as well as the political and diplomatic immunity and impunity that the occupier continues to enjoy, the associations reiterated their demands to the international community, the UN, and competent international mechanisms to "act urgently" to apply the principle of universal jurisdiction to prosecute all Zionist officials involved in these crimes.
They call for the imposition of effective international measures and sanctions against the Zionist occupier to put an end to serious and systematic violations, and to guarantee "immediate and unconditional" access for the ICRC and independent international bodies to all Zionist places of detention.
The Palestinian associations also demand international protection for Palestinian political prisoners and detainees, and call for guaranteeing victims the right to justice, redress, and compensation.
