GAZA,(The Palestine Foundation Pakistan)The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that Israel’s Negev prison, where the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) are holding “Global Sumud Flotilla” activists, has become a notorious site of systematic torture and abuse against Palestinian detainees.
The Society explained that the Negev prison holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including detainees from Gaza. Several prisoners have been martyred there since the start of Israel’s ongoing genocide, among them Thaer Abu Asab, who was beaten to death by IOF suppression units.
According to the PPS, the latest videos released by Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir were not the first of their kind. In previous recordings, Ben-Gvir has been seen verbally assaulting Palestinian prisoners, calling them “animals,” threatening to kill them, and boasting about policies of humiliation and abuse. The mistreatment of the flotilla activists, the Society said, is a continuation of this same policy of dehumanization and violence.
The PPS condemned Israel’s assault on the “Global Sumud Flotilla” participants and their ongoing detention in one of Israel’s harshest prisons. It also denounced the hate speech launched by Ben-Gvir, who labeled the international activists “terrorists.”
The rights group emphasized that Israel’s prison system has long violated all international human rights and legal standards, turning prisons and detention camps into spaces of slow-motion genocide through systematic torture, starvation, and neglect over the past two years.
Known historically as “Ansar 3,” the Negev prison was established by the Israeli occupation authorities in 1988 after the outbreak of the First Intifada. Thousands of Palestinians have been detained there since, and many have died as a result of torture and medical neglect.
The PPS praised the “Global Sumud Flotilla” activists for carrying a humanitarian message to the world at a time when the international community remains complicit and silent in the face of Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
