One of the thousands of Palestinians that Israel is holding in its torture camps is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. Dr. Abu Safiya has been in prison for more than 550 days. His lawyer, who visited him last week, warned that he believes Dr. Abu Safiya’s life is in imminent danger.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel reported that Dr. Abu Safiya, who is in solitary confinement in the underground Rakefet facility, met them bearing fresh signs of violence so severe that he was barely recognizable. He struggled to sit, had difficulty breathing and appeared on the verge of passing out. Dr. Abu Safiya told his lawyer he feared this would be their last meeting before he was killed.
The Israeli military arrested Dr. Abu Safiya in December 2024, after he refused for a long time to leave the hospital and insisted on staying with his patients and medical team under Israeli siege and bombardment. He has been in Israeli custody ever since, without charges or a release date. Last month, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected an appeal he filed against the extension of his detention, without releasing its reasons for a decision that may cost him his life.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is not alone. Israel is holding thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in its incarceration facilities, including 13 other physicians, as well as Palestinians from the West Bank and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Testimonies given to B’Tselem by survivors of these facilities, together with extensive information published by Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organizations, show that since October 2023 Israel’s incarceration facilities have become a network of torture camps for Palestinians.
Inmates in these facilities are subjected to ongoing physical and psychological abuse, systematic starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, humiliation and sexual assault.
According to B’Tselem’s monitoring, at least 90 Palestinians have died in these incarceration facilities since October 2023, as a result of the conditions.
The torture and inhuman treatment suffered by Palestinian prisoners are not aberrations or the actions of a few individuals. They are the implementation of the brutal policies Itamar Ben Gvir, the minister in charge of the prison system, shamelessly espouses, policies that could not be applied without support from Israel’s judicial system, which is fully cognizant of what’s happening behind prison walls, or the Israeli public.
The international community also chooses to look the other way, granting Israel immunity from accountability for the crimes it commits against Palestinians. Instead, it must demand that Israel end the torture, killing and human rights violations it perpetrates in its incarceration camps and throughout the territories under its control.
Read more about Israel’s torture camps in B’Tselem’s reports “Welcome to Hell” and “Living Hell” on B’Tselem’s website:
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B'Tselem's new 360° VR documentary, Raj’in (‘We Shall Return’), which follows Palestinian shepherding communities facing forced displacement in the occupied West Bank by Israel, has been selected for Venice Immersive at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Raj’in (‘We Shall Return’) brings audiences face to face with an ongoing catastrophe: Israel is driving Palestinian communities from their land and homes as part of its project to eliminate Palestinian life in the West Bank. The world must recognize this as ethnic cleansing - and act to stop it.
Since October 2023, settler violence and military raids have forcibly displaced at least 4,635 Palestinians in the West Bank. So far, 62 Palestinian communities have been entirely forcibly displaced, with another 15 communities partially displaced.
Credits:
Co-created by B'Tselem photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh and documentary filmmaker Keren Manor, in collaboration with Jaber 'Ali Dawabseh, Jamal Hreizat, ‘Alya Mleihat And their families.
Co-produced by B’Tselem and NowHere Media.
משבר המזון ברצועת עזה מחריף עם סגירת חלק מהמטבחים הקהילתיים של ארגון המטבח המרכזי העולמי. המטבחים, שהפעיל הארגון לצד יוזמות קהילתיות מקומיות, הפכו במהלך הג׳נוסייד המתמשך למקור המזון הקבוע היחיד של מאות אלפי תושבים בעזה. כיום נותרו ברצועה שלושה מטבחים בלבד, שמספקים ביחד בכל יום 200 אלף ארוחות חמות. זאת לעומת יותר ממיליון וחצי ארוחות שחולקו מידי יום עד עכשיו.
מאז אוקטובר 2023 ישראל מגבילה את הכנסת המזון לרצועה, ובמקביל מחריבה את התשתיות המקומיות לייצור ולהפצת מזון. כך נוצר מחסור חמור, ומאות אלפי בני אדם נדחקו לתלות כמעט מוחלטת בסיוע הומניטרי. על פי משרד הבריאות הפלסטיני, עד אוקטובר 2025 מתו מרעב ומתת-תזונה 455 בני אדם, בהם 151 ילדים.
עבור משפחות רבות, המטבחים הקהילתיים היו במשך חודשים הדרך היחידה להשיג ארוחה אחת ביום. אבל כעת גם רשת הביטחון המצומצמת הזו הולכת ומתפוררת.
במרץ 2025 הטילה ישראל מצור מוחלט על הרצועה במשך יותר מחודשיים ומנעה הכנסת סיוע הומניטרי. בהמשך הטילה ישראל מגבלות נוספות על פעילותם של ארגוני הסיוע, ועשרות מהם הזהירו כי לא יוכלו להמשיך לפעול. כתוצאה, במאי 2026החל המטבח המרכזי העולמי לצמצם את פעילותו.
משבר הרעב המתמשך בעזה הוא תוצאה של מדיניות ישראלית מכוונת. סיוע הומניטרי, שמותנה ברצונה או באינטרסים המשתנים של ישראל, אינו יכול להחליף מערכת ייצור והפצת מזון מתפקדת. כל עוד ישראל ממשיכה להגביל את הכנסת המזון, לפגוע בתשתיות ולהקשות על פעילות ארגוני הסיוע, מיליוני בני אדם ימשיכו לחיות במציאות של רעב, מחסור ותלות.
למידע המלא >> https://t.co/i1i1Q2Acuj
UN watched Yezidis being massacred,kidnapped,raped and burned alive for refusing to convert to lsIam,but they didn’t help!
Nadia lost 6 of her brothers and she was kidnapped and raped by lSlS.
7K kidnapped, 2599 still missing.
10K were killed.
0 protest
2 Russian women arrive in UK together
1 marries
1 gets work for MP
Married woman divorces & MP ‘helps’ with visa
She then remarries - Arran Banks
Arran Banks finds £8 million for Brexit
Holds boozy lunch in Russian embassy
Funds Farage
Woman working for MP exposed as spy
July 17, 1944 | The Scottish Missionary Jane Haining (No. 79467) dies in #Auschwitz II. Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”
Learn more https://t.co/vQNnExB3Oc
17 July 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, Josef Butterteig, was born in Maastricht.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea
Tulsi Gabbard's choice to single out Ukraine and spread debunked fabrications about its biological research labs is pathetic.
Her last actions as DNI solidified her reputation as a traitor who actively uses her platform to validate Russian propaganda.
The biological lab conspiracy theory is one of Russia’s most aggressive disinformation campaigns, and Gabbard has been one of its primary Western drivers. She is well aware that Ukraine’s facilities are strictly rated Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3). These are ordinary diagnostic labs found in almost every country to manage local infectious diseases through controlled air currents and basic containment. The defining characteristic of a BSL-3 lab is that it handles microbes that can cause serious harm, but for which medical science has already developed functional vaccines or therapeutic treatments.
Because Ukraine has no BSL-4 labs, her claims that these facilities pose a global biological threat are entirely fabricated. BSL-4 facilities require absolute, maximum isolation to handle lethal, exotic pathogens that have no known cure or treatment whatsoever. They are heavily fortified environments where scientists must wear pressurized, oxygen-fed suits to survive. By pretending Ukraine's basic BSL-3 labs are equivalent to these maximum-risk bioweapons centers, she provided the Kremlin with a vital propaganda victory to distract from its war crimes and divide the international community.
Providing aid and comfort to a hostile foreign regime (Russia) by legitimizing their wartime deception is an egregious violation of national trust. Gabbard’s deliberate attempt to undermine the West from within means she should not just be condemned, she deserves to face the full legal consequences of her actions, including jail time for treason
Today would have marked Jewish heroine Hannah Szenes' 105th birthday. In 1944, while on a secret mission to rescue Jews in Hungary, she was arrested by the Nazis and tortured repeatedly, but she refused to reveal any information. On November 7th, 1944, she was executed at the age of 23. Today, we remember and honor her bravery and her sacrifice.
My name is Antoni Stasiak 🇵🇱,
a shoemaker from the village of Kuny, born on Jan. 14, 1905.
I was murdered by #Germans in their #Death camp #Auschwitz on July 1️⃣8️⃣, 1942 at the age of 3️⃣7️⃣ only because I was a #Pole.
I survived 6️⃣5️⃣ days.
Please, #NeverForget me!
#genocide#WWII
Marzieh Ebrahimi was the victim of an acid attack simply because she did not want to wear the hijab.
This is life for Iranian women under the Islamic regime.
18 July 1902 | An Austrian Jewish woman, Josefine Bäcker, was born in Vienna.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 4 October 1944. She did not survive.
On this day in 1861, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 6 Jul 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 15 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where he was most probably murdered on arrival. His name was Ignác Stein
17 July 1944 | Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary in Budapest, perished in Auschwitz.
Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”
Jane Haining (b. 6 June 1897) was arrested in Budapest by the Gestapo and later deported to Auschwitz. On 14 May 1944, she was registered in the camp as prisoner 79467.
She was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
Chi, in nome della “sacralità della vita”, chiedeva 12 anni di carcere per Cappato che aiutava persone consapevoli a morire con dignità, oggi pretende che un duplice omicida non veda nemmeno un giorno di carcere.
Si vede che la vita è “sacra” secondo la loro discrezionalità.