Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Israel's Prison Service says it operates in accordance with the law.
53% : Israel's Prison Service said it operates in accordance with the law.
52% : In September, Israel's Supreme Court ordered that more and better food be served to Palestinian inmates.
51% : TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) --
51% : Sometimes, at the behest of prisoners' families, doctors were granted permission by Israel to attend autopsies and provided reports to the families on what they saw.
47% : The picture that emerges from the report by Physicians for Human Rights -Israel is consistent with findings by The Associated Press, which interviewed more than a dozen people about prison abuses, medical neglect and deaths, analyzed available data, and reviewed reports of autopsies.
43% : It declined to comment on the death count and directed any inquiries to Israel's army.
42% : A spokesperson for Israel's Prison Service wouldn't comment on the case.
39% : One morning, early in Israel's war against Hamas, the guard arrived at work to see a motionless Palestinian lying on his side in the yard, yet no guards rushed to see what had happened to the man, who was dead.
38% : Physicians for Human Rights-Israel says systematic violence and denial of medical care contributed to the majority of the deaths it looked into.
38% : Guards told to reduce the number of deaths Although hesitant at first, the former guard at the Sde Teiman military prison in southern Israel said he eventually participated in beatings of prisoners.
37% : Last year, the head of Israel's prison system, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, boasted that he had degraded prison conditions to the legal minimum.
34% : Former prisoner can't forget what he witnessed Sariy Khuorieh, an Israeli-Palestinian lawyer from Haifa, said he was detained at the start of the war after Israel accused him of inciting violence through his social media posts.
33% : PHRI says the actual death toll over this timeframe is "likely significantly higher," noting that Israel has refused to provide information about hundreds of Palestinians detained during the war.
33% : But lawyers for prisoners say Israel rarely conducts serious investigations into alleged violence and that this fuels the problem.
32% : A former guard at the Sde Teiman military prison in southern Israel tells The Associated Press that abuse there was rampant.

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