Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails report surge in torture at hand of authorities

Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons report being beaten by prison guards, and threatened with violence if they refuse to kiss the Israeli flag, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday. 

The testimonies were submitted to Haaretz and human rights groups.

One Palestinian testimony described the treatment prisoners faced: "Eleven prisoners were put in a cell that usually held a third of that. [The guards] threw the food on the floor, sometimes they mashed it with their feet, and every day – under the pretext of a "search" – they would beat the prisoners with iron sticks."

On Tuesday it was announced that a seventh Palestinian prisoner died in an Israeli jail since 7 October.