{"id":1269,"date":"2025-08-16T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:53:13","slug":"the-accursed-fate-of-palestinians-in-israeli-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"The accursed fate of Palestinians in Israeli prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>-This article was published on August 14, 2025, in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2025\/08\/14\/the-accursed-fate-of-palestinians-in-israeli-prisons\/\">People\u2019s Dispatch<\/a><\/em> by Vijay Prashad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As of August 2025, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1.jpg 652w, https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Illustration by Midhun Puthupattu<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee en espa\u00f1ol <a href=\"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/es\/2025\/08\/16\/el-destino-maldito-de-los-palestinos-en-las-carceles-israelies\/\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was astonishing to<a href=\"https:\/\/palprisoners.ps\/?p=1204&amp;lang=en\">&nbsp;read<\/a>&nbsp;about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025 inside Israel\u2019s Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the West Bank; Ahmad from Jenin and Walid from Silwad. Initially, the Israelis remained silent about the death of Walid but later consented to an autopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dci-palestine.org\/17_year_old_palestinian_child_prisoner_starved_to_death_by_israeli_prison_guards\">&nbsp;report<\/a>&nbsp;is painful. The post-mortem of Walid revealed that he had suffered from extreme body muscle and fat wasting, air collections in his chest and abdomen (\u201clikely caused by blunt trauma\u201d), and there was evidence of oedema and congestion in his large intestine (\u201cconsistent with traumatic injury\u201d). The autopsy confirmed that he died because of starvation and beatings by Israeli prison guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khaled Ahmed, Walid\u2019s father,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/walid-ahmad-1st-minor-killed-in-israeli-prisons-since-oct-7\/3528164\">&nbsp;recalled<\/a>&nbsp;that his son was not only a top student, but also the highest scorer in his local football team. \u201cWalid was preparing to join the Palestinian national team,\u201d said Khaled. Walid was killed three days before Suleiman al-Obeid, known as the \u201cPalestinian Pele\u201d, was killed by Israeli fire while waiting in line to get food for his family in Gaza. In just a few days, football lost two of its brightest stars to the Israeli genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons. On August 12, 2025, the Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 Society published a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsmo.ps\/home\/studies\/17666?culture=ar-SA\">&nbsp;report<\/a>&nbsp;detailing the state of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The report is painful to read because of the harsh conditions described. The Society notes that the Israeli prison administration \u201cin a systematic and planned manner\u201d has \u201cdeprived prisoners of their humanity\u201d to the point of causing them \u201cphysical and psychological exhaustion, which may end in their martyrdom\u201d. The three words they used to describe the overall situation are \u201ctorture\u201d, \u201cstarvation\u201d, and \u201ccruelty\u201d. Since October 2023, 76 Palestinian prisoners have died in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-electric-shocks\"><strong>Electric shocks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 2,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces at food distribution points. With those numbers in mind, it is difficult to truly comprehend what is happening to the Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Yet, this brutality must be understood within a broader context, which is Israel\u2019s shredding of the Oslo Accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel is conducting ethnic cleansing in Gaza through genocidal bombing, bulldozing Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank, encouraging the settlement of that land with Israelis, and forcibly seizing all of Jerusalem. The bombing of Gaza continues, and in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the Israelis are arresting the political leadership of the resistance and torturing them in their prisons. The bombing in Gaza and the arrests in the West Bank and Jerusalem are therefore part of the annulment of the Oslo Accords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs released a chilling<a href=\"https:\/\/cda.gov.ps\/index.php\/en\/51-slider-en\/20986-gilboa-prison-administration-inflicts-electric-shocks-torture-on-detainees\">&nbsp;report<\/a>&nbsp;on the torture of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gilboa Prison in northern Israel. The Israeli prison guards storm the cells to conduct inspections, restrain detainees, take them to the prison yard, and then beat them, insult them, and subject them to electric shocks. They are then taken to the showers, drenched in water, and then shocked again. A lawyer from the Commission recounts the situation, \u201cthe electric shocks are administered using specialized stun guns, which are also wielded as weapons to strike detainees on the head. Being made of solid metal, they cause deep wounds, leaving many detainees bleeding, while guards mock and laugh at them. The level of torture is so severe that numerous detainees lose consciousness.\u201d The use of this violence is intended not only for the detainees to blackout, but for them to also lose their sense of self and be totally deprived of basic sanity. Raed Abu al-Hummus, the Palestinian Commission\u2019s head,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/palestinian-prisoners-electrocuted-starved-and-beaten-in-israeli-jails-detainees-commission\/3654413\">&nbsp;said<\/a>, \u201cThe goal is clear: to wear them down emotionally, to push them into a state of psychological collapse. This is not isolated. It\u2019s part of an intensifying Israeli policy inside prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the political leadership of Palestine has had their sense of self broken, the political formations of resistance will suffer. The electric shocks, therefore, are as brutal as the bombs dropped on hungry civilians in Gaza: both are intended by the Israelis to crush any Palestinian resistance to the occupation of their lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magiddo prison, one of the worst Israeli prisons amongst a range of terrible prisons, holds special isolation sections for senior Palestinian political leaders such as Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa\u2019adat.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsmo.ps\/home\/news\/17299?culture=ar-SA\">&nbsp;Marwan Barghouti<\/a>&nbsp;(born 1959) is a major leader in Fatah who was arrested during the Second Intifada, and has been in prison for twenty-three years and four months. The Inter-Parliamentary Union<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ipu.org\/hr-e\/174\/report.htm\">&nbsp;found<\/a>&nbsp;that his treatment at arrest \u201cprecluded any possibility of a fair trial\u201d and that he should not be held as he is. During the past few years, Barghouti was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/28\/israeli-prison-staff-accused-of-assaulting-palestinian-detainee-marwan-barghouti\">&nbsp;beaten<\/a>&nbsp;in his cell till his ribs broke. The attempt to break his spirit continues unabated. Ahmad Sa\u2019adat (born 1953), Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has been in prison for twenty-three years and three months \u2013 one month less than Barghouti. He had initially been arrested by the Palestinian Authority and held in Jericho Prison, where the Israelis illegally seized him and brought him to Magiddo. The point of capturing and holding these leaders for long periods of time is to prevent the development of a focal point in Palestinian society that would revitalize Palestinian politics. This is what the Israeli political theorist Baruch Kimmerling<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/1850-politicide\">&nbsp;calls<\/a>&nbsp;<em>politicide<\/em>, the death of politics. Israel is not only killing Palestinians to seize the land, but they are killing the possibility of Palestinian politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-politicide\"><strong>Politicide<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What is remarkable about groups such as the Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 Society,<a href=\"https:\/\/addameer.ps\/\">&nbsp;Addameer: Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/\">&nbsp;Al-Haq: Defending Human Rights<\/a>&nbsp;is that they have continuously stood with Palestinian political prisoners and not allowed their resistance to be forgotten or diminished. In October 2021, the Israelis<a href=\"https:\/\/alhaqeurope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/suffocating-palestinian-organisations-two-pages-view-1700948458-pdf.pdf\">&nbsp;outlawed<\/a>&nbsp;six Palestinian groups \u2013 Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Centre for Research and Development, Defence for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women\u2019s Committees. The Israelis accused these groups of being in contact with the PFLP. In November 2021, the Israeli military commander of the West Bank declared these organizations to be \u201cunlawful associations\u201d. This takes&nbsp;<em>politicide<\/em>&nbsp;to another level. Now, not only are the political groups \u2013 such as PFLP \u2013 treated as terrorist groups, but even organizations that speak for the prisoners are outlawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa was a young man who deserved to live a full and long life. In September 2024, he was arrested in his home in Qabatiya. The Israelis invaded his city in the northern part of the West Bank, went to a house and<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/haaretznewsvid\/status\/1837011285642264989\">&nbsp;threw<\/a>&nbsp;Palestinians off the third floor. Ahmad was arrested, brought to Magiddo, tortured, and then killed. The way that they treated him in prison was even more brutal than the way they threw his fellow Palestinians off the third floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Vijay Prashad<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mayday.leftword.com\/\">&nbsp;<em>LeftWord Books<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;and the director of<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thetricontinental.org\/\">&nbsp;<em>Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research<\/em><\/a><em>. He has written more than 20 books, including<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Darker-Nations-Peoples-History-Third\/dp\/1595583424\/?tag=alternorg08-20\">&nbsp;<em>The Darker Nations<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;and<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Poorer-Nations-Possible-History-Global\/dp\/1781681589\/?tag=alternorg08-20\">&nbsp;<em>The Poorer Nations<\/em><\/a><em>. His latest books are<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/on-cuba\">&nbsp;<em>On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;(with Noam Chomsky),<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/1869-struggle-makes-us-human\">&nbsp;<em>Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism<\/em><\/a><em>, and (also with Noam Chomsky)<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/withdrawal\">&nbsp;<em>The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was produced by<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globetrotter.media\/\">&nbsp;<em>Globetrotter<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-This article was published on August 14, 2025, in People\u2019s Dispatch by Vijay Prashad. As of August 2025, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons. Lee en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed It was astonishing to&nbsp;read&nbsp;about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025 inside Israel\u2019s Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the West Bank; Ahmad from Jenin and Walid from Silwad. Initially, the Israelis remained silent about the death of Walid but later consented to an autopsy. The&nbsp;report&nbsp;is painful. The post-mortem of Walid revealed that he had suffered from extreme body muscle and fat wasting, air collections in his chest and abdomen (\u201clikely caused by blunt trauma\u201d), and there was evidence of oedema and congestion in his large intestine (\u201cconsistent with traumatic injury\u201d). The autopsy confirmed that he died because of starvation and beatings by Israeli prison guards. Khaled Ahmed, Walid\u2019s father,&nbsp;recalled&nbsp;that his son was not only a top student, but also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[83,142,39,45],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-opinion-2","tag-occupation","tag-palestinain-prisoners-movement","tag-palestine","tag-standwithpalestine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The accursed fate of Palestinians in Israeli prisons - Republic Palestine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The accursed fate of Palestinians in Israeli prisons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"-This article was published on August 14, 2025, in People\u2019s Dispatch by Vijay Prashad. 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As of August 2025, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons. Lee en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed It was astonishing to&nbsp;read&nbsp;about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025 inside Israel\u2019s Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the West Bank; Ahmad from Jenin and Walid from Silwad. Initially, the Israelis remained silent about the death of Walid but later consented to an autopsy. The&nbsp;report&nbsp;is painful. The post-mortem of Walid revealed that he had suffered from extreme body muscle and fat wasting, air collections in his chest and abdomen (\u201clikely caused by blunt trauma\u201d), and there was evidence of oedema and congestion in his large intestine (\u201cconsistent with traumatic injury\u201d). The autopsy confirmed that he died because of starvation and beatings by Israeli prison guards. Khaled Ahmed, Walid\u2019s father,&nbsp;recalled&nbsp;that his son was not only a top student, but also &hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269","og_site_name":"Republic Palestine","article_published_time":"2025-08-16T14:40:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-16T14:53:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":652,"height":367,"url":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"RepublicofPalestine","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"RepublicofPalestine","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269","url":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269","name":"The accursed fate of Palestinians in Israeli prisons - Republic Palestine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1.jpg","datePublished":"2025-08-16T14:40:09+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-16T14:53:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a116984632a4562b5d251d19cb8e8bf3"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/prisoners-TW1.jpg","width":652,"height":367},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1269#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629","item":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The accursed fate of Palestinians in Israeli prisons"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/","name":"Republic Palestine","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a116984632a4562b5d251d19cb8e8bf3","name":"RepublicofPalestine","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13240ade82024fefe7ea06e3569c7001?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13240ade82024fefe7ea06e3569c7001?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"RepublicofPalestine"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/republicpalestine.com"],"url":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}