The Supreme Court of Israel says that Palestinian prisoners are not sufficiently fed

On Sunday, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that the government had not provided Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for the basic subsistence and ordered the authorities to improve their nutrition.

The decision was a rare case in which the highest courtyard of the country ruled against the conduct of the government during the war of almost two years.

Since the start of the war, Israel has grasped thousands of people in Gaza that he has suspected links with Hamas. Thousands have also been released without indictment, often after months of detention.

Rights defense groups have documented generalized abuses in prisons and detention establishments, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor health conditions and blows. In March, a 17 -year -old Palestinian boy died in an Israeli prison and the doctors said that famine was probably the main cause of death.

Sunday’s decision came in response to a petition presented last year by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the Israeli rights group Gisha. The groups allegedly alleged that a change in food policy promulgated after the war in Gaza made prisoners suffer from malnutrition and famine.

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The photo of Ibrahim Salem at Sde Teiman’s prison in the Israel Neguev desert became viral after being disclosed to CNN and spread on social networks. Salem says that standing at the fence with arms upwards, as was seen in the photo, was a form of punishment that he endured during his 52 -day detention in the military base turned in prison.

Last year, the Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the penitentiary system, boasted of having reduced the conditions of security detainees to what he described as the bare minimum required by Israeli law.

In Sunday’s decision, the panel of three judges judged that the state was legally obliged to provide prisoners with sufficient food to ensure “a basic level of existence”.

In decision 2-1, the judges declared having noted “indications that the current food supply to detainees does not sufficiently guarantee compliance with the legal standard”. They said that they had found “real doubts” that the prisoners ate properly and ordered the prison service to “take measures to ensure the supply of food which allows basic subsistence conditions in accordance with the law”.

Ben-Gvir, who leads a small extreme right ultra-nationalist party, denounced the court’s decision, claiming that even if the Israeli hostages in Gaza have no one to help them, the Supreme Court of Israel “to our shame” defends the activists of Hamas. He said the policy of providing prisoners “the minimal conditions stipulated by law” would continue unchanged.

ACI called for the implementation of the verdict immediately. In an article on the social media platform X, he said that the penitentiary service had “transformed Israeli prisons into torture camps”.

“A state is not hungry for people,” he said. “People are not hungry people – whatever they did.”