While the bombs rain down on Gaza, another battle is being fought behind concrete walls and iron bars. In Israeli prisons, thousands of Palestinians are enduring a daily nightmare—beatings, starvation, untreated illnesses, and a system built on cruelty. As the war on Gaza escalates, so too does the violence inside these prison walls, far from the eyes of the world.

Lawyers visiting facilities like Ofer, Gilboa, and Megiddo have reported scenes of despair: skin diseases left to spread, prisoners wasting away from hunger, and medical aid deliberately withheld. Even children are not spared. In Ofer Prison, detained minors are battling rashes and infections without diagnosis or care, their bodies bearing witness to a system that sees them as less than human.

Prisoners speak of raids by masked forces using muzzled dogs, of broken bones and open wounds left to fester, of silence replacing the right to speak or scream. More than 60 prisoners have died since the war began, many of them from Gaza, their names unrecorded, their bodies withheld. It is a campaign of punishment, designed not only to imprison, but to destroy.

In the face of such brutality, the silence of the international community grows heavier. Every day that passes without intervention is another day of sanctioned abuse. These prisoners are not forgotten by their people—but they are abandoned by a world too willing to look away.