‘Sunlight Can’t Reach It’ – Israel Holds Detainees in Underground Prison 

Israel has opened an underground situation for detainees from Hamas and Hezbollah. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A recently reopened underground situation successful Israel houses detainees from Hamas and Hezbollah, successful immoderate of the harshest conditions imaginable.

Israel has opened an underground situation for detainees from Hamas and Hezbollah groups wherever they are denied entree to sunlight, according to Israeli media cited by the Anadolu quality agency.

According to the Israeli nationalist broadcaster KAN, the facility, located successful cardinal Israel, is designed to location “the astir unsafe individuals” from Hamas’s elite forces and Hezbollah’s Radwan Unit.

“This is their earthy place, underground,” far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the police, reportedly told KAN.

The broadcaster said immoderate 75 detainees were presently being held astatine the underground prison.

“Even the tiny model successful the ward has been sealed disconnected for the detainees,” it added.

‘Small Amounts of Food’

Describing the conditions successful the underground situation arsenic harsh, KAN said detainees determination are shackled and confined to their cells for 23 hours a day.

“They are allowed lone 1 little accidental per time to measurement into a small, enclosed yard,” it added. “Even this tiny gait is wholly closed and the sunlight can’t scope it, and detainees are allowed to spell retired into it erstwhile a day.”

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— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) January 10, 2025

According to KAN, detainees successful the underground situation are fixed a mattress and tiny amounts of food.

“This installation houses astir of the unsafe detainees, who are not expected to beryllium released for a agelong time, if ever,” it added.

‘Cutting-Edge Technology’

The Israeli Ynet quality website reported that the Rakefet helping was “a highly classified underground analyzable astatine Nafha Prison” wherever the detainees were being kept.

The wing, it said, was “one of the astir precocious and unafraid successful the IPS (Israel Prison Service), equipped with cutting-edge technology. Smart cameras are installed successful each cell, susceptible of monitoring and tracking each question of the prisoners.”

“I indispensable say, I anticipation to person the Prime Minister to walk the decease punishment for terrorists”

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led journalists connected a circuit of the high-security Rakefet helping of Nitzan Prison, wherever Hamas and Hezbollah prisoners are held… pic.twitter.com/LVBm9S2v2z

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The underground installation was reopened aft it was unopen down successful the 1970s erstwhile it housed immoderate of Israel’s astir unsafe criminals, the study added.

It has nevertheless been reopened owed to the ongoing warfare that has killed much than 46,000 Palestinians successful Gaza.

“The conditions successful the Rakefet helping are among the harshest successful the IPS,” the facility’s commandant is quoted by Ynet quality arsenic saying.

Claims of Legal Compliance

The commandant claimed that the detainees participated successful the October 7 absorption cognition “and they are highly dangerous, highly trained operatives. The IPS indispensable stay vigilant astatine each times, arsenic bonzer events tin hap astatine immoderate moment.”

The IPS besides claimed that the conditions successful the installation “comply with planetary law, with each captive receiving 1 hr of regular exercise.”

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According to Ynet, the helping “is equipped with state-of-the-art surveillance systems, including biometric cameras installed successful each compartment to continuously show the prisoners’ beingness and captious signs.”

“These cameras let the IPS to cognize precisely who is successful each compartment astatine immoderate fixed time,” it added.

Ongoing Genocide

The ongoing Israeli battle connected the Gaza Strip, which began connected October 7, 2023, has led to a humanitarian situation of unprecedented scale. As the decease toll among besieged and starved Palestinian civilians continues to emergence daily, Israel is presently facing charges of genocide against Palestinians earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

📊 The decease toll successful Gaza whitethorn beryllium 64,260—41% higher than authoritative figures, says a Lancet study.

Nearly 3% of Gaza’s colonisation has died, astir of them women, children, & elderly. This excludes deaths from healthcare illness oregon starvation.#GazaGenocide #HumanRights… pic.twitter.com/fcu8J3DMLa

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) January 10, 2025

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, astatine slightest 46,006 Palestinians person been killed, and 109,378 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023. The toll is expected to emergence further, with astatine slightest 11,000 radical inactive unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes crossed Gaza.

The war, which Palestinians telephone “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” began aft a subject cognition carried retired by Hamas connected Israeli territory. Israel reports that 1,139 of its soldiers and civilians were killed during the archetypal onslaught connected October 7. However, Israeli media person raised concerns that a important fig of Israeli casualties were caused by ‘friendly fire’ during the assault.

Humanitarian Disaster

Human rights organizations, some Palestinian and international, person reported that the overwhelming bulk of the casualties successful Gaza are women and children. The ongoing unit has besides exacerbated an acute famine, with thousands of children among the dead, highlighting the severity of the humanitarian disaster.

The warfare has displaced astir 2 cardinal radical from their homes crossed Gaza, with the bulk of the displaced forced into the already overcrowded confederate portion of the Strip. The colonisation successful Gaza remains trapped successful the ongoing conflict, with small entree to basal necessities specified arsenic food, water, and aesculapian care.

(Anadolu, PC)