Israel’s Ben-Gvir lauds harsh conditions for Palestinian female prisoners

Palestinian groups condemn situation footage arsenic humiliation and intimidation.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted footage from a situation holding Palestinian women connected societal media, boasting that helium is liable for the harsh conditions imposed connected them.

The video, posted connected Ben-Gvir’s X relationship connected Sunday, shows him entering a conception holding pistillate prisoners and confronting them astir their complaints regarding detention conditions.

One captive tells him: “This is our 3rd time without showering. We are not receiving aesculapian treatment, and our apparel are not clean.”

Ben-Gvir responds: “The bully conditions successful the prisons are over. This is the existent situation, and I americium straight liable for everything. I americium pleased with these conditions.”

In a station accompanying the video, the far-right curate wrote that the “whining” of prisoners implicit their conditions would not power him, arguing that Israeli captives held successful Gaza had not enjoyed capable conditions.

“I’ll proceed to pb a argumentation of the bare minimum of the minimum,” helium said.

Gaza’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs condemned Ben-Gvir’s visit, saying the filming of pistillate prisoners amounted to intimidation and humiliation.

It said his introduction into the women’s conception of the installation was “not an inspection visit”, but alternatively a “political spectacle and nationalist incitement against the pistillate prisoners” aimed astatine intimidating them and breaking their volition successful beforehand of cameras.

The Palestinian bureau said Ben-Gvir’s remarks showed that conditions wrong Israeli prisons were portion of what it described arsenic a systematic argumentation of retaliation based connected “humiliation, torture, starvation and deprivation”.

An Israeli constabulary serviceman extracurricular Ofer subject situation adjacent Jerusalem, October 13, 2025 [Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo]

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society besides condemned the footage, telling Al Jazeera that Ben-Gvir’s filming and work of the women constituted “an battle connected their quality dignity”.

It said hundreds of testimonies from released detainees and prisoners had documented superior abuses wrong Israeli prisons and detention facilities.

Push for harsher conditions

Since becoming nationalist information curate successful precocious 2022, Ben-Gvir has pushed for tougher conditions for Palestinian prisoners, including reducing nutrient and h2o supplies, restricting household visits, limiting ablution times and removing privileges wrong situation sections.

He has besides overseen the transportation of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners betwixt facilities.

Ben-Gvir has antecedently rejected efforts to amended conditions for prisoners. In 2025, helium publically opposed an Israeli tribunal ruling requiring authorities to guarantee Palestinian prisoners received capable food, insisting that harsh conditions should continue.

According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, astir 9,400 Palestinians are presently being held successful Israeli prisons, including 88 women and much than 350 children.