Report: Majority of Palestinians died in Israeli custody were civilians

The majority of Palestinian prisoners from Gaza who died in Israeli prisons were civilians, according to a parallel investigation

At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, in many cases seemingly as a direct result of torture, medical neglect, and starvation, according to Israeli data obtained by the Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI).

The real death toll of Palestinians in Israeli jails is likely to be substantially higher because hundreds of people detained in Gaza are missing, an Israel-based human rights group has said.

In its own reports, the Israeli army classified less than one-third of those Palestinians detained from Gaza as militants, the investigation found.