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Ben-Gvir Admits He's 'Pleased' With Prisoner Suffering
(MENAFN) Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared Sunday that he is satisfied with the punishing treatment endured by Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody, asserting that he personally oversees the conditions inside the prisons.
The comments emerged in footage posted to the US-owned platform X, capturing an exchange between the minister and Palestinian women held in detention.
“The conditions here are very bad, and we women are not afforded any special rights, such as access to personal necessities,” one detainee told him in the clip.
"This is our third day without showers. We are not receiving medical treatment, and our clothes are not clean," she continued.
Speaking through an interpreter, Ben-Gvir replied: “The good conditions that used to exist in the prisons are over.”
Accompanying the footage, he added in a written post: "The 'whining' of the terrorists about the conditions in the prisons doesn't work on me." When the detainee pressed him to improve conditions, he refused.
Sunday's confrontation was not an isolated incident. Ben-Gvir has repeatedly entered cells holding Palestinian detainees to belittle them — earlier this month, he dismissed one woman's complaints about inadequate conditions and missing essentials, telling her flatly that “prison is not a hotel.”
The Palestinian Prisoner Society condemned the pattern, saying in a statement that the minister's repeated taunting is designed “to normalize scenes of humiliation and torture and turn them into a political achievement.”
“Turning prisons into an arena for political spectacle is aimed at gaining support within Israeli society by boasting about the persecution of Palestinian prisoners, both men and women,” the group said.
According to the organization, the raid on the women's wing unfolded against a backdrop of intensifying restrictions imposed by Israeli prison authorities, marked by growing isolation, deprivation and denial of basic rights. It pointed to hundreds of documented testimonies of abuse collected since the war on Gaza began, describing beatings, humiliation, starvation, withheld medical care and prolonged isolation.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society went further, characterizing Israel's prison system as “one of the most prominent arenas of the crime of genocide,” and reported that more than 100 Palestinian prisoners and detainees have died in custody since fighting erupted in October 2023.
Ben-Gvir, who took office in late 2022, has since pursued a broader campaign to harden detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners — including measures involving starvation, medical neglect, torture and solitary confinement, according to rights monitors.
Roughly 9,500 Palestinians remain imprisoned in Israeli facilities, among them 94 women and over 350 children, who Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups say continue to face starvation, torture and denial of medical treatment.
The comments emerged in footage posted to the US-owned platform X, capturing an exchange between the minister and Palestinian women held in detention.
“The conditions here are very bad, and we women are not afforded any special rights, such as access to personal necessities,” one detainee told him in the clip.
"This is our third day without showers. We are not receiving medical treatment, and our clothes are not clean," she continued.
Speaking through an interpreter, Ben-Gvir replied: “The good conditions that used to exist in the prisons are over.”
Accompanying the footage, he added in a written post: "The 'whining' of the terrorists about the conditions in the prisons doesn't work on me." When the detainee pressed him to improve conditions, he refused.
Sunday's confrontation was not an isolated incident. Ben-Gvir has repeatedly entered cells holding Palestinian detainees to belittle them — earlier this month, he dismissed one woman's complaints about inadequate conditions and missing essentials, telling her flatly that “prison is not a hotel.”
The Palestinian Prisoner Society condemned the pattern, saying in a statement that the minister's repeated taunting is designed “to normalize scenes of humiliation and torture and turn them into a political achievement.”
“Turning prisons into an arena for political spectacle is aimed at gaining support within Israeli society by boasting about the persecution of Palestinian prisoners, both men and women,” the group said.
According to the organization, the raid on the women's wing unfolded against a backdrop of intensifying restrictions imposed by Israeli prison authorities, marked by growing isolation, deprivation and denial of basic rights. It pointed to hundreds of documented testimonies of abuse collected since the war on Gaza began, describing beatings, humiliation, starvation, withheld medical care and prolonged isolation.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society went further, characterizing Israel's prison system as “one of the most prominent arenas of the crime of genocide,” and reported that more than 100 Palestinian prisoners and detainees have died in custody since fighting erupted in October 2023.
Ben-Gvir, who took office in late 2022, has since pursued a broader campaign to harden detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners — including measures involving starvation, medical neglect, torture and solitary confinement, according to rights monitors.
Roughly 9,500 Palestinians remain imprisoned in Israeli facilities, among them 94 women and over 350 children, who Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups say continue to face starvation, torture and denial of medical treatment.
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