The tension between some Zionist leaders seems to have increased in recent days by the release of 55 Palestinian prisoners, including the director of the Gaza Al-Shifa hospital, Mohammad Abu Salmiya. That is why the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will take a step: he will set up an interinstitutional organization which will henceforth supervise the decisions on the release of Palestinian prisoners, following their interrogation. They have not specified whether the new organization will only operate in the Gaza Strip, although they have limited themselves to acting.

In the midst of these discussions, several media outlets have reported that Shin Bet (or Shabak), a Zionist security and intelligence service, has issued a warning to warn of the situation in their prisons. In fact, he reminded the Government of the State of Israel that Zionist prisons have the capacity to house 14,500 prisoners and that, at the moment, they have 21,000 Palestinians in them.

According to several sources, Shin Bet has confined himself to arguing for the lack of space in prisons to release the director of Al-Shifa hospital and other Palestinians. Netanyahu and other Zionist leaders have described the decision as "serious mistake", pointing to the Prime Minister meeting yesterday with Shin Bet's leader, Ronen Bar.

Increasing prisons

The Israeli Prison Service has denied that there are agglomerations in Zionist prisons and has denied that there are agglomerations. To this end, he has published images of the cell in which Abu Salmiya was allegedly locked, in an attempt to demonstrate that there is no lack of space. The images show eight kidnapped Palestinians, who appear to be in the same cell in which they were found. They're on their knees, and several jailers are pointing at them with guns.

Since 7 October, the Zionist Prison Service has announced the expansion of 2,500 prisons to recruit "high-security" prisoners. He has also explained that in the coming months nearly 1,000 more places will be created than in the Basque Country. It also provides for the construction of an "emergency building" until the end of the year, with which a further 1,000 new places will be built.

Shin Bet’s leader has said, however, that prisons will become ‘a time bomb’ and that the Zionist authorities must begin to release Palestinian prisoners. It has also warned the Government that "the prison crisis" has negative consequences for the State of Israel, to avoid international "legitimacy" and to generate possible responses from Palestinian prisoners.

Systematic torture

As he was released, and like many Palestinian prisoners, Abu Salmiya reported having suffered savage torture in the hands of the Zionists. He reported that many Palestinians have been killed in interrogation centres and that many have been denied food or medicine. The images, which are repeatedly published, show that Zionists inflict a wide range of torture and "physical and psychological humiliations" on detainees, Abu Salmiya said in a statement.