Hamas condemned Thursday what it called the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody and urged the international community to intervene to halt the abuses.
Citing human rights data, Hamas said that 94 Palestinians were killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
"This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people," it added in a statement on its official Telegram channel.
Palestinian prisoners are subjected to inhumane violations, "including severe beatings, scalding with boiling water, attacks by dogs, and sexual assaults," which are proven by firsthand testimonies and credible human rights reports, Hamas said.
It decried the Israeli practices as "full-fledged war crimes under international humanitarian law that expose the brutal nature of the (Israeli) occupation’s regime."
