By MEE staff
Published date: 4 Dec 2025 15:06 GMT

It found that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) introduced a separate, sparse menu for “security prisoners”, which is used to describe mostly Palestinian prisoners, leaving many malnourished.

Released prisoners told media outlets and rights groups that meals sometimes consisted of a tiny portion of undercooked rice shared between several inmates for an entire day, while others went days without food.

The report described the resulting hunger as “severe, manifested in extreme weight loss and associated physical symptoms, including extreme weakness and fainting”.

Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are suffering extreme hunger, overcrowding and systematic violence by prison staff, a report by Israel’s Public Defender’s Office has revealed.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}