Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for Palestinian prisoners to be executed, amid a spat with Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service on the state of Israel’s prisons.
The far-right minister took to X to respond to Shin Bet accusations that the government had ignored months of warnings about prison overcrowding with at least 21,000 Palestinian detainees held since 7 October.
“Since I assumed the position of Minister of National Security, one of the highest goals I have set for myself is to worsen the conditions of the terrorists in the prisons, and to reduce their rights to the minimum required by law,” Ben-Gvir said.
The minister appeared to boast about the squalid conditions Palestinians are kept in, in remarks some observers have called an open admission that Israel is running concentration camps.
“Everything published about the abominable conditions” of Palestinians in Israeli jails “was true”, Ben-Gvir said, boasting that he had reduced food and shower times for prisoners, removed electrical devices, and stopped financial deposits.
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