Talk:Israel Prison Service
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Questions of importance
[edit]- Hoe many prisoners does Israel have?
- How many of these may be called 'political'?
- Why is not Saharonim Penitentiary, Negev Desert, Ramat listed. Is it called something else? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.224.157 (talk) 16:17, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
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- I don't have statistics, but the IPS employs 7791 people. That could give some idea as to how many prisoners it has.
- Depends on what you define as political, but it isn't likely that statistics about something like this exist. I am fairly sure anyhow that not that many prisoners were arrested merely for a political activity, and those are mostly extreme-right Jews from the settler movement. Others who might be called 'political prisoners' were arrested for violence, rioting, etc. and this includes many Arabs and left-wingers. Finally, I am not taking into account Palestinian prisoners because the laws that apply in their case are a bit different and since they're (usually) citizens of the PA, they don't count as political prisoners. I believe the total amount is up to 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in IPS prisons, not including detention centers. —Ynhockey (Talk) 16:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
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Other language sites
[edit]- Arabic: http://www.ips.gov.il/ShabasArab/Main/index.html - Doesn't exist yet
- Russian: http://www.ips.gov.il/ShabasRuss/Main/index.html - Doesn't exist yet
Starving prisoners
[edit]This should be mentioned:
- Israeli Supreme Court orders government to stop starving Palestinian prisoners The Journal,
- Israel's Supreme Court says government is not giving Palestinian prisoners enough food ABC News, 7 September 2025.
- Palestinian prisoners not being given adequate food, Israel top court says BBC, 8 September 2025.
- Israel's Supreme Court says Palestinian prisoners are not being fed enough CBC, 7 September 2025.
- Israel deprives Palestinian prisoners of food, Israeli Supreme Court says in rare ruling NBC News, 8 September 2025.
- “In a highly rare exercise of wartime legal restraint, Israel's Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the Israeli government has deprived Palestinian detainees of even a minimum subsistence diet and ordered authorities to increase the amount and improve the quality of food served to deprived Palestinian inmates.”
NPOV
[edit]The article says: “Conditions in Israeli prisons generally meet international standards.” Considering hundres of media articles and reports by human rights organisations about torture, ill-treatment and intentional starving of prisoners in Israel’s gaols, this simply does not make sense. Babel fish (talk) 10:33, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
Torture
[edit]This should be included in the article:
- Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps B’tselem, August 2024.
This was widely reported in Israeli and international media at the time.
- B’Tselem alleges Israeli policy of abuse, torture of Palestinian prisoners Times of Israel, 6 August 2024.
- Welcome to Hell: B'Tselem's Ignored Abuse Report Shows Israel's True Face Haaretz, 8 August 2024.
- Blindfolded, bound and beaten: Palestinians tell of Israeli jail abuse BBC, 5 August 2024.
- Head of Israeli rights organization details torture and abuse of Palestinians inside Israeli prisons CNN, 14 August 2024.
- Palestinian prisoners describe systemic abuse in Israel’s jails The Guardian, 5 August 2024.
- prisons 'operate like torture camps' for Palestinian detainees Le monde, 5 August 2024.
- In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present Le monde, 10 August 2024.
- Rights groups accuse Israel of Palestinian detainee abuse Deutsche Welle, 9 August 2024.
- Israeli rights group details systematic abuse of Palestinians in Israel's jails France24, 6 August 2024.
- Israel set up facilities dedicated to torturing Palestinians: Rights group AlJazeera, 6 August 2024.
Reports about tortur in Israeli prisons have not abated since then. Babel fish (talk) 10:55, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
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