🔴 Palestinian Prisoner’s Society Welcomes Key UN Report on Torture of Palestinians As Foundation of Genocide

March 24, 2026

Ramallah, occupied Palestine- The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) welcomed the newly-released report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, to the Human Rights Council during its current session. The PPS considers it an important report that reaffirms that torture constitutes a structural feature of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, in addition to being part of a settler-colonial apartheid system.

The PPS emphasized that this report represents an important legal and humanitarian reference, adding to a series of reports issued by Rapporteur Albanese since the start of the genocide, which have formed a basis for understanding the human rights reality in the occupied Palestinian territories.

This comes despite ongoing attempts by occupation authorities to obstruct her work, prevent her from entering the Palestinian territories to gather evidence, and also prevent her from meeting released prisoners in Egypt.
The report indicated that torture is part of the strategies underpinning the crime of genocide, and that it includes Israeli occupation prisons and military camps where thousands of Palestinian and Arab prisoners and detainees are held. The report also documented multiple methods of torture, including: beatings, suspension, electric shocks, starvation, sexual assaults, prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, use of loud music for psychological pressure, photographing prisoners naked, and denial of medical care—leading to the killing of dozens of Palestinian detainees and the withholding of their bodies.

The report confirmed the scale of the impact of these crimes on Palestinian society, which is collectively targeted with the aim of breaking it psychologically and physically and to erase its existence. It reaffirms that systematic torture constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity that may rise to the level of genocide. It also noted that these practices are not individual acts, but rather the product of an entire system—making the genocide a “structural torture system.”

The report stressed that continued impunity and international complicity constitute major support for the continuation of the Israeli occupation’s practice of structural torture, considering genocide the most extreme form of torture.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society called on the international community to end its complicity with the Israeli occupation and to stop policies supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people. It affirmed that the transformations following the crimes of genocide threaten not only Palestinian existence, but humanity as a whole, by attempting to undermine the international system and the human rights framework, and by creating a new global order in which the Israeli occupation remains above the law.