Buried beneath Ramla Prison lies the "Rekefet" section—a place that Palestinian rights groups now describe not as a detention facility, but as a tool of psychological and physical extermination. According to a statement from the Prisoners’ Media Office, the treatment of Gaza detainees in this underground wing constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.

Inside "Rekefet", detainees are reportedly subjected to systematic torture and the complete denial of fundamental rights: no access to fair trials, no communication with families, no proper medical care, and no trace of human dignity. The prison, it says, functions not to uphold justice, but to crush spirits and erase identity.

Lawyer visits, when permitted, are conducted under tight surveillance and offer only fleeting glimpses of what one official called a “silent hell.” This is not merely detention—it is collective punishment designed to break the will of Gaza’s prisoners and strip them of any hope. In the depths of this underground prison, darkness is not just a physical condition—it is a sentence.