Palestinian rights groups have denounced a surge in systematic torture inside Israeli prisons, with Gilboa Prison emerging as a focal point of abuse. Prisoners report being beaten, shackled, humiliated, and subjected to electric shocksة sometimes after guards deliberately soak them in water to maximise pain. Witnesses describe guards laughing as detainees collapse, bleed, or lose consciousness.

Beyond physical assaults, inmates face calculated deprivation: meagre food rations causing severe weight loss, shortages of cleaning materials, and months without proper utensils. Rights advocates say these conditions are not isolated incidents but part of an entrenched policy designed to crush prisoners’ morale, in violation of international law.

Despite worsening conditions and a lack of international oversight, prisoners continue to resist what they see as Israel’s campaign to strip them of dignity. Advocacy groups are calling for urgent intervention from human rights bodies, warning that the silence of the global community emboldens a system of oppression that extends far beyond prison wallsة into a wider war that Palestinians say amounts to genocide.