Israel’s supreme court says government is not giving Palestinian prisoners enough food | Israel
The Supreme Court of Israel decided that the government could not provide enough food to Palestinian security prisoners for basic livelihoods and ordered the authorities to improve their nutrition.
The Sunday’s decision was a rare case that the country’s highest court decided by the government’s behavior during almost two years of war.
Since the war began, Israel has seized it because it was suspected of connecting to thousands of people in Gaza with Hamas. Thousands of people were released free of charge after they were arrested for months.
Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including inadequate food and health services, as well as weak sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17 -year -old Palestinian boy died in Israeli prison, and doctors said that hunger was probably the main cause of death.
The decision came in response to a petition brought by the Civil Rights Association (ACRI) in Israel and the Israeli Group Gisha last year. The groups claimed that a change in food policy, which came into force after the war in Gaza, caused prisoners to suffer malnutrition and hunger.
Last year, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who controls the prison system, praised the security prisoners to what he defined as the naked minimum required by the Israeli law.
In the decision of Sunday, three justice panels unanimously decided that the state had to provide sufficient food to prisoners to provide prisoners a “basic level of existence”.
In his 2-1 decision, justice, prisoners found indicators that the existing food supply does not guarantee the suitability of the legal standard sufficiently ”. He ordered that prisoners had found “real doubts ve and the prison service to take steps to procure their basic livelihoods according to the law”.
Although the Israeli hostages in Gaza have no one to help them, the Israeli hostages were decided by deciding that the hostages of Israel defended Hamas militants to our “shame”. He told the prisoners that the policy of providing “the most minimum conditions stipulated by the law would continue unchanged.
Acri, the decision wanted to be implemented immediately. In an article in X, the prison service “transformed Israeli prisons into torture camps”.
“A state does not leave people hungry,” he said. “No matter what people do, they don’t leave people hungry.”
