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'All changed with the genocide': Palestinian women and girls face brutal abuse in Israeli jails

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Since late 2023, over 700 Palestinian women and girls have been arrested in the occupied territories, facing alleged physical and psychological abuse, starvation, and humiliation in Israeli jails. Rights groups report significantly worsened conditions since the start of the Gaza conflict, with prisoners denied basic necessities and legal access.
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Submitted by Victoria Brittain on Thu, 04/16/2026 - 16:01 More than 700 have been arrested since the Gaza genocide began, enduring brutal conditions of starvation, isolation and humiliation Israeli soldiers keep watch as Palestinians gather at the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on 20 February 2026 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) On Once you picture schoolgirls, university students, mothers, aunts and grandmothers lying on their stomachs in prison pyjamas - their hands tied

'All changed with the genocide': Palestinian women and girls face brutal abuse in Israeli jails
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