Palestinian prisoner deaths spike amid systematic abuse, neglect, rights group finds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Israel's Prison Service said it operates in accordance with the law.
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% : Last year, the minister overseeing Israel's prison system, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, boasted that he had degraded prison conditions to the legal minimum.
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.
37% : Although hesitant at first, the former guard at the Sde Teiman military prison in southern Israel said he eventually participated in the beatings of prisoners.
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% : 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.

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