Torture

Hamas using Nasser Hospital as interrogation, torture center in Gaza, IDF says

An investigation by the Shin Bet and the IDF revealed that masked Hamas terrorists were spotted in the hospital, with its second floor being used to torture Palestinians.

People gather to welcome Palestinian terrorists released from Israeli prisons under a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal, outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025
Assad-era general, Adel Issa, was detained in Lebanon and transferred to Syria.

Lebanon hands Assad-era general to Syria in first such transfer since Assad’s fall

Internally displaced Palestinians carry walter containers past hundreds tents now housing them after their homes were destroyed, in Khan Yunis southern Gaza Strip on August 11, 2026.

Hamas intensified Gaza torture, interrogations post-Oct. 2025 ceasefire, IDF Arabic spox says

A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanon's late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, in rural Aleppo, Syria, December 11, 2024.

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death for murder, torture, crimes against humanity


Palestinian who almost died in interrogation ‘not necessarily tortured’

State Attorney Shai Nitzan was asked about under staffing and insufficient funds provided to the Justice Ministry’s special unit, for probing complaints of alleged torture of detainees.

Actors demonstrate the Israeli Shin Bet torture method known as "Banana b'kiseh"

Would we know if Palestinians were being tortured by the Shin Bet?

The High Court of Justice has declared torture of detainees – whether they are sympathetic or not – to be illegal since 1999, even for terrorists.

Actors demonstrate the Israeli Shin Bet torture method known as "Banana b'kiseh"

‘Tortured’ Palestinian suspect expected to be sent back to Shin Bet

Both IDF courts and the Supreme Court rejected Arbid’s defense lawyers’ previous requests to release him from being a detainee on the grounds that the Shin Bet allegedly beat him into a coma.

IDF soldiers searching in the West Bank for the terrorists who killed Rina Shnerb, August 2019

Rina Shnerb's alleged murderer linked to European-funded BDS affiliates

Arbid was listed as an accountant for Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, which is a European-funded NGO.

Rina Shnerb, 17, was killed by an improvised explosive device in the West Bank, August 23 2019

Authorities silent on medical update of ‘tortured’ Palestinian suspect

The Jerusalem Post has learned that already on Thursday, at a detention hearing before the IDF West Bank courts, he complained of various pains from his interrogation by the Shin Bet.

Avichay Mandelblit attends Ayelet Shaked's goodbye party.

Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture

Hathloul was arrested over a year ago as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, which many of the detainees had long campaigned for. Local media tarred them as traitors.

Majdooleen, who is among the first Saudi women allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, drives her car in her neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia June 24, 2018.

Muslim Chinese woman describes torture in detention camp

FILE PHOTO - Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles roll to Tiananmen Square during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015

Court: Lawyers may meet minors in Jewish terror case on Saturday night

Fighting breaks out at courthouse between police and right-wing activists.

Man in handcuffs - illustrative

Amnesty International: Palestinian woman tortured in PA prison

Jbara, who is a US and Panamanian citizen, was arrested by the PA security forces during a raid on her home in a village north of Ramallah on November 3.

Members of the Palestinian security forces clash with demonstrators during a protest organised by Hizb-ut Tahrir against what organisers say are political arrests by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank city of Hebron February 25, 2017.

Video of Shin Bet interrogations leading to disciplinary measures

The Justice Ministry did not provide statistics on the number of disciplinary proceedings.

Ofer Prison