Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel released 15 Palestinian hostages on Sunday who had been abducted from the Gaza Strip during the genocide. Several appeared to show clear signs of starvation, while others bore visible wounds, amid a rise in deaths among Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, with confirmed reports of torture and medical negligence.
They were released via the Karem Abu Salem crossing in the south, according to local sources, who added that they were hospitalized at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.
Witnesses and journalists said that the released detainees appeared severely thin and exhausted, with some showing visible signs of injury.
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Israeli occupation authorities have been accused of torturing Palestinian detainees. This includes being handcuffed and shackled 24 hours a day, seven days a week – even while sleeping, eating, and using the restroom. Testimonies also describe regular beatings by guards, extreme overcrowding, humiliation, and inadequate hygiene.
In August 2024, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem accused Israeli occupation authorities of systematically abusing Palestinians in “torture camps”, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault.
Israel’s torture of Palestinians has resulted in the deaths of over 98 known detainees since 7 October 2023, the day Israeli laumched its ongoing genocide in Gaza, in detention facilities, making it the “bloodiest stage in the history of the prisoner movement,” according to the Palestinian Detainees’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
“Every time prisoners are released, we find the prisoners’ bodies reflecting the level of crimes committed against them,” the PPS said in a statement.
“These include medical abuses, starvation, and brutal beatings that continued until the last days of their release. These actions represent a long-standing, systematic history of crimes perpetrated by the occupation, which escalated dangerously since the start of the genocide campaign. These crimes led to the martyrdom of dozens of detainees during the bloodiest period in the history of the prisoner movement,” the group added.
There are now over 9,000 Palestinian hostages held in Israeli jails, including 90 women and 350 children, according to official Palestinian figures.
