On the Eve of Eid al-Adha: More Than 9,400 Prisoners Face Repression and Starvation in Occupation Prisons
More than 9,400 Palestinian and Arab prisoners will spend this Eid al-Adha inside Israeli occupation prisons, subjected to enforced disappearance, repression, and starvation. Since the genocidal war on Gaza began, the systematic crimes against them have reached a scale never seen before, and no group of prisoners has been spared.
The latest count records 360 children, three of them girls, and 84 women, dozens of them mothers. Another 3,376 people are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, women and children among them.
A further 1,283 detainees from Gaza are held under the label of “unlawful combatants,” a designation built on exceptional measures that strip them of the most basic legal and human rights.
More than 100 prisoners have been martyred in custody since the war began. The occupation has named 89 of them. What happened to the rest stays hidden, and fears are growing that detainees are facing torture and systematic medical neglect.
This year Eid arrives with thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, starved and denied medical care. The abuse is constant. The occupation presses ahead with its genocidal policies while the world stays silent and does nothing to stop the crimes inside its prisons.
The holiday is broken without them. The prisoners are kept from their families and their children, and they wait for the day they come home free.
