The Daily Populous Monday July 29th, 2024 night edition
Authored by telegraph.co.uk and submitted by TheTelegraph

Hamas is filming the torture of Israeli hostages in an attempt to force Israel to ease conditions for Palestinian prisoners.

In one video, members of the terrorist group directly address Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister who controls prison policy, two Israeli officials told The Telegraph.

The video shows hostages being tortured while Hamas warn that harsher conditions for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are affecting the well-being of hostages in Gaza.

In May, CNN reported that Palestinians arrested in Gaza were facing brutal conditions at the Sde Teiman desert camp in the Negev desert, some of whom were blindfolded and beaten.

A New York Times investigation also found that some 1,200 Palestinian civilians had been held at the Sde Teiman camp “without the ability to plead their cases to a judge for up to 75 days.”

Mr Ben-Gvir has made it a priority to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners since taking office in December 2022, causing him to clash repeatedly with the Shin Bet intelligence agency who feared it would ignite another violent conflict with Hamas.

The video is understood to have intensified the rift, with Mr Ben-Gvir said to have doubled down after viewing it.

Intelligent_Town_910 on July 28th, 2024 at 14:54 UTC »

Isn't this just going to make Israel even more angrier and make sure that Israel goes even harder on them?

wish1977 on July 28th, 2024 at 14:28 UTC »

This is who Hamas is and that's why they have to go away.

OpalescentAardvark on July 28th, 2024 at 14:06 UTC »

What do they think that will achieve, apart from confirming they're exactly the kind of people that the world should want to be rid of?