Jerusalem: Israel’s far-right national security minister on Sunday boasted of worsening conditions for Palestinian prisoners as he visited female inmates.
Two months before elections, Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video in which a veiled woman, her face blurred out, said that prisoners had “extremely bad” conditions and “don’t get any rights, and we have particular needs as women.”
“We haven’t bathed for three days and we haven’t changed our underwear,” she said, warning of the risk of disease.
Ben Gvir responds approvingly as he compares the treatment to that of hostages held for up to two years by Hamas and other militants in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 attacks.
“Our hostages had no shampoo and had no such conditions. I am proud that we have succeeded in reducing the terrorists’ prison conditions to the bare minimum. The summer camps in the prisons are over,” Ben Gvir said.
