Pressure Builds Over Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
As Hamas fighters swarmed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the power suddenly went out in a remote prison in the Negev Desert. When the lights briefly came back on a few hours later, a new era of hard-line policies had begun. In the wake of Hamas’s attack—which left some 1,200 in Israel dead and around 250 as hostages—the thousands of Palestinians held at Lavi prison in the Negev and other prisons across Israel now faced harsher conditions. Thousands more joined them, swept up in raids amid the ensuing war.
