As the world’s attention shifts to rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Israeli prison authorities have launched a wave of brutal assaults on Palestinian detainees, according to Amjad Al-Najjar, head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club.

He reported that Israeli special forces stormed several prison sections, deploying police dogs, batons, and tear gas against handcuffed inmates, under the pretext of punishing them for allegedly celebrating Iranian missile strikes. A recently surfaced video captures the violent scenes, revealing what Al-Najjar described as “a complete collapse of basic human standards.

Al-Najjar warned that Israeli authorities are using the current regional crisis as cover to intensify revenge-driven crackdowns on Palestinian prisoners, with no accountability or media scrutiny. He revealed that 72 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli custody over the past 19 months, an alarming figure when compared to nine deaths over two decades at Guantanamo Bay.

Prisoner advocacy groups have urgently appealed to the UN and human rights organisations to intervene, demanding protection for detainees and prosecution of those responsible for systematic abuse. Currently, over 10,400 Palestinians remain in Israeli detention, including 440 children, 49 women, and more than 3,500 held without charge under so-called administrative detention.

This prison crackdown mirrors the broader escalation of Israeli violence across occupied Palestine, particularly in the West Bank and Jerusalem, where nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and thousands more wounded, as Gaza continues to bleed under daily massacres.