Interview with Ilham Shammali: The Prisoners' Front in the Genocide War and the Attempt to Break the National Movement's Will through the Execution Law
An interview with Gaza-based researcher Dr. Ilham Shammali on the repercussions of the genocide war on Palestinian prisoners, and the escalation of policies of repression, starvation, and torture inside Israeli prisons, considering that the execution law for prisoners constitutes a tool of political revenge and an attempt to break the will of the prisoners' movement.
In an interview with Gaza-based researcher Dr. Ilham Shammali, she discusses the repercussions of the genocide war on Palestinian prisoners, and the escalation of policies of repression, starvation, and torture inside Israeli prisons. Shammali considers that the execution law for prisoners constitutes a tool of political revenge and an attempt to break the will of the prisoners' movement and end its struggle role. She points out that Israel, in its treatment of prisoners, has relied on the emergency regulations of 1945 inherited from British colonialism, which are based on using imprisonment as a means to punish Palestinian activists by keeping them in detention conditions that do not meet the minimum human needs, then taming and subjugating the prisoner through a policy of exhausting nervous attrition, psychological and material starvation, and deprivation of the most basic elements of human life. She adds that this policy was not born after October 7, 2023, nor with the fascist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, although the latter has pushed it to its extreme, in line with his fascist tendencies, satisfying his grudges, and appeasing the vengeful tendencies within Israeli society.