The highest court in Israel claims that Palestinian prisoners are deliberately hungry in severe prison conditions.
Posted on September 8, 2025
The Supreme Court of Israel declared in a rare decision that the Israeli government intentionally deprives thousands of Palestinian prisoners even of a minimum of food for daily subsistence in the middle of the genocidal war in Gaza.
The panel of three judges, who has so far accused of taking measures against the government or the military for 23 months of war against the besieged Gaza and tirelessly Gaza, deliberated on the issue on the basis of a request for two groups for the defense of Israeli rights.
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He judged unanimously on Sunday that the Israeli government had the legal obligation to provide Palestinian prisoners with three meals a day to ensure “a basic level of existence” and ordered the authorities to fulfill this obligation.
In a decision of two to one, the court also accepted the petition tabled last year by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Gisha, moving with their allegations according to which the deliberate restriction by the government of food of prisoners in Israeli detention establishments led the Palestinians to suffer from malnutrition and starvation.
The Palestinians of Gaza suffer during this time from a famine induced by Israeli, with daily deaths of malnutrition.
“We are not talking here about life or comfortable luxury, but basic conditions of the survival required by law,” said the decision. “Let’s not share the ways of our worst enemies.”
The Israeli army has taken thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the sentence occupied since the start of the almost two year war, considerably increasing its arbitrary detention of people based on suspicions of “terrorism”.
Innumerable prisoners who have been released described brutal conditions in Israeli military detention, including torture and abuse, famine, lack of medical care, overcrowding and disease.
ACI, one of the two organizations that advanced the case, said its staff had been subject to “a harassment, verbal abuse and intimidation” dam of the Israeli government and far -right members of the Knesset during the hearings of the Supreme Court.
“The explosions began to look less like a demonstration of power and intimidation and more like moving into despair,” he said in the end of July, when the hearings began.
A main figure fighting their case was Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right national security, who heads a small party based on religion and directs the police and other armed forces.
Ben-Gvir attacked the judges of the Supreme Court following the decision, saying that they do not promote their country.
“Our hostages in Gaza do not have a supreme court to protect them,” he wrote in an article on X, suggesting that the Palestinians now have a supreme courtyard that protects them, which they do not do.
“We will continue to provide terrorists imprisoned in prison with the minimum conditions required by law,” he continued.
Last month, Ben-Gvir visited the prison unit of the Fatah chief in the hold of Marwan Barghouti for a long time and was filmed the huge in order to discourage thousands of people in Israeli prisons, attracting the conviction of the Palestinians and the rights of rights.