'Israel turned detention facilities into torture camps where people are being held without charges'

Over the past two years, Director of the Prisoners and Detainees Department Naji Abbas at the Physicians for Human Rights Israel.has documented what they describe as thousands of Palestinians held without charge, subjected to torture, medical neglect and even death in Israeli detention facilities. Their work reveals not only isolated incidents but a systemic pattern: from administrative detention to the targeting of medics and hospitals, from bodies returned to Gaza as silent evidence to the international community’s inaction. Mr Abbas places these findings in the historical context of occupation, war and humanitarian collapse, and urges a reckoning. Who are the bodies being returned, he asks, and why are health‑workers held without charge, and what must happen now if accountability is to mean more than words?