«Αυτή είναι μια τελευταία προειδοποίηση προς τους δολοφόνους και τους βιαστές της Χαμάς στη Γάζα και σε πολυτελή ξενοδοχεία στο εξωτερικό: Απελευθερώστε τους ομήρους και καταθέστε τα όπλα σας — αλλιώς η Γάζα θα καταστραφεί και εσείς θα εξαλειφθείτε», δήλωσε ο Κατζ στο X λίγο αφότου ο πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ Ντόναλντ Τραμπ εξέδωσε αυτό που χαρακτήρισε ως «τελευταία προειδοποίηση» προς τη Χαμάς να απελευθερώσει τους ομήρους που εξακολουθούν να κρατούνται στη Γάζα.
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hamas on Monday to lay down its arms or face the destruction of Gaza and its own annihilation.
“This is a final warning to the Hamas murderers and rapists in Gaza and in luxury hotels abroad: Release the hostages and put down your weapons — or Gaza will be destroyed and you will be annihilated,” Katz said on X shortly after US President Donald Trump issued what he described as a “last warning” to Hamas to release the hostages still held in Gaza.
- In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death
- In Sunday’s ruling, the panel of three justices ruled unanimously that the state is legally obligated to provide prisoners with enough food to ensure “a basic level of existence”
TEL AVIV, Israel: Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that the
government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with
adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve
their nutrition.
The decision was a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled
against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.
Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza that
it suspects of links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released
without charge, often after months of detention.
Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention
facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as
poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old
Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison and doctors said starvation
was likely the main cause of death.
Sunday’s ruling came in response to a petition brought last year by the
Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Israeli rights group
Gisha. The groups alleged that a change in the food policy enacted after
the war in Gaza began has caused prisoners to suffer malnutrition and
starvation.
Last year, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the
prison system, boasted that he had reduced the conditions of security
prisoners to what he described as the bare minimum required by Israeli
law.
In Sunday’s ruling, the panel of three justices ruled unanimously that
the state is legally obligated to provide prisoners with enough food to
ensure “a basic level of existence.”
In the 2-1 ruling, the justices said they found “indications that the
current food supply to prisoners does not sufficiently guarantee
compliance with the legal standard.” They said they had found “real
doubts” that prisoners were eating properly, and ordered the prison
service to “take steps to ensure the supply of food that allows for
basic subsistence conditions in accordance with the law.”
Ben-Gvir, who leads a small far-right ultranationalist party, lashed
out at the ruling, saying that while Israeli hostages in Gaza have no
one to help them, Israel’s Supreme Court “to our disgrace” is defending
Hamas militants. He said the policy of providing prisoners with “the
most minimal conditions stipulated by the law” would continue unchanged.
ACRI called for the verdict to be implemented immediately. In a post on
X, it said the prison service has “turned Israeli prisons into torture
camps.”
“A state does not starve people,” it said. “People do not starve people — no matter what they have done.”
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