Israeli Minister of National Security ultranationalist Itamar Ben Gvirasked death penalty for Palestinian prisoners as a “solution” to overcrowding in prisons that are running out of space as a result of intensive detention campaigns carried out by the Israeli army following the October 7 Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) attacks.

“I am pleased that the government has approved my proposal, which will allow the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to build 936 (total 1,600) additional prison beds. (…) The death penalty for terrorists is the right solution to the problem of imprisonmentIn the meantime, I am glad that the government has approved the proposal that I made,” he wrote on his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

In this sense, Ben Gvir explained that these additional places will allow Israeli prisons to “accept more terrorists” at the same time as a “partial solution” is proposed.

It should be noted that the “security prisoners” the Minister is referring to are those detainees who are suspects or have been subject to criminal prosecution. found guilty of committing crimes against the security of Israel in “nationalistic”, according to the non-governmental organization Adalah (Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel).

In early March, Israeli authorities Administrative detainees had to be released that they had one month left in prison due to a lack of prison space.

This is the type Arbitrary detention of Palestinians used by the Israeli army and that it can be extended indefinitely based on classified information provided that those arrested are likely to commit a crime at some point in the future, as reported by some human rights non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW) or the Israeli Peace Organization . organization BTselem.

There are children detained in Israel in deteriorating conditions: Save the Children

On April 15, Israel released about 150 Palestinian prisoners, including minor under 15 years of age.

In 2023 BBC documented as Israel detains, interrogates and tries minors in military courts, some are as young as 12 years old.

“Children are usually arrested at home. Dozens of soldiers attacked the house in the middle of the night“Sometimes they break down the door, ask about the child and enter the minor’s bedroom with rifles to wake him up and take him away,” lawyer Khaled Kuzma told the above-mentioned media.

“Eat was subjected to psychological and sometimes physical torture and where many end up, under pressure, confessing to crimes they did not commit,” he condemned.

February 29, 2024 organization Save the children documented how “increasing numbers of Palestinians, including children, detained without charge in the Israeli military system Since October 7 they reported that suffer violence and abuse while they are in custody.”