Since October 7, 2023, the situation in Israeli prisons has been the worst it has ever been since the beginning of the Israeli occupation. Prisoners say that whoever had been detained before October 7 had never truly seen prison. Just as the Israeli occupation carries out a genocide in Gaza, it is aslo carrying it out behind bars, using torture, deliberate starvation, sexual assault, humiliation, and rape. Even Israeli doctors have notoriously assisted in the torture of Palestinian detainees, sharing prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teaching interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and sometimes directly engaging in torture themselves.
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