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Members of a Gaza-bound flotilla, who were detained by Israeli security forces, speak during a press conference after arriving at Sydney International Airport on May 25, 2026. (DAVID GRAY/AFP)
August 8, 2026, 2:37 pm
Report details further allegations that Gaza flotilla activists were abused by Israel
New York Times interviews some 2 dozen activists, most alleging physical, and in 1 instance, sexual, assault; Israel has repeatedly denied the claims
By ToI Staff
Agam Tsarafi, left, and Shilat Houta, right, suspects in the July murder of Benayahu Razi in Jerusalem, and Linor Sasson, suspected in aiding them, are brought to a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, August 7, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
August 7, 2026, 2:27 pm
Six, including four minors, charged with murdering teen in a Jerusalem Airbnb
Defendants allegedly assaulted Benayahu Razi and his friend with knives, brass knuckles, a club and a kitchen mallet; cops say one defendant was romantically involved with victim
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 7, 2026, 1:31 am
Number of Palestinian minors in Israeli administrative detention rises sharply — data
While Israel stopped holding Jewish suspects without due process, it has intensified practice against Arabs, expanding number of Palestinian minors held in past year from 103 to 191
By Nurit Yohanan
Crocodiles at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, August 18, 2024. (Police spokesperson)
August 2, 2026, 8:27 pm
Court freezes transfer of crocodiles to prison moat, putting Ben Gvir’s plan on hold
Following petition from animal rights group against move to surround Ketziot Prison with Nile crocodiles, Jerusalem District Court gives state until Wednesday to respond
By ToI Staff
Police seen detaining murder suspect Avior Sasson in a taxi in the Harel Tunnel at the entrance to Jerusalem, July 28, 2026. (Screen captures/Israel Police)
July 29, 2026, 2:39 pm
Fugitive teen arrested in murder case; prison officer suspected of helping him hide
Israel Prison Service officer allegedly had romantic relationship with suspect’s jailed brother and gave him her phone to contact people outside prison
By ToI Staff
Senior prison officials tour the crocodile farm at Hamat Gader in northern Israel, January 2026. (Via social media)
July 23, 2026, 11:03 am
Construction said already underway on Ben Gvir’s prison crocodile moat
Far-right minister’s office confirms that digging has begun at Ketziot Prison, despite objections from nature authority and environment ministry’s legal council
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
A guard grasps the hands of a cuffed prisoner through a door slot at the Givon Prison in Ramle on January 11, 2026. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
July 19, 2026, 11:16 am
With Ben Gvir’s backing, prison guards quietly branding domestic criminals as terrorists
Public defenders alarmed over uptick in Arab inmates being moved to squalid security wings where they serve alongside terror prisoners, based on questionable misconduct allegations
By Charlie Summers
Mujahed Bani Mufleh lies in a hospital bed where he is receiving treatment after being released from Israeli jail, July 8, 2026. (JOHN WESSELS/AFP)
July 9, 2026, 11:09 am
Israeli jails a ‘graveyard,’ says freed Palestinian journalist
Mujahed Bani Mufleh was imprisoned for incitement, but never charged; separately, Israel denies detained Gaza hospital chief and Hamas officer in ‘life-threatening’ condition
By AFP and Jeremy Sharon
L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025. (Democracy Now screenshot/YouTube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)
July 5, 2026, 10:57 am
Life of detained Gaza hospital chief/Hamas officer at immediate risk, lawyer says
Rights group claims Hussam Abu Safiya undergoes daily beatings, bears fresh wounds that made him barely recognizable during lawyer visit; prisoner said to say he doesn’t think he’ll survive
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir taunts detained flotilla activists at Ashdod Port on May 20, 2026. (Screenshot/Ben Gvir's X account)
June 19, 2026, 8:36 pm
Central Elections Committee orders Ben Gvir to take down flotilla abuse video
Far-right minister deletes clip after judge determines that it constituted unlawful election propaganda and orders far-right minister pay $7,800 in legal fees
By ToI Staff
L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025. (Democracy Now screenshot/YouTube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)
June 16, 2026, 2:05 pm
Supreme Court rejects appeal of Gaza hospital chief, a Hamas officer detained by Israel
Hussam Abu Safiya, who runs Kamal Adwan Hospital and is a colonel in Hamas Military Medical Services, has been in administrative detention since 2024, now in solitary confinement
By Jeremy Sharon
Gazan detainees seen in a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 9, 2026, 10:26 pm
Comptroller: Prison overcrowding has harmed Shin Bet, delayed Oct. 7 terror trials
Watchdog’s report says state was unprepared to absorb influx of thousands of detainees during war, which led to the release of several high-level security prisoners back to Gaza
By Ethan Rubinson
Lizzy Savetsky, left, appears in New York City on May 5, 2026. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Ari Ackerman); Elon Gold appears at the Tribeca Festival, June 4, 2026. (Rob Kim/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
June 9, 2026, 11:38 am
Tribeca Festival slams pro-Israel celebrities’ red-carpet jokes about Israeli dog rape allegations
Influencer Lizzy Savetsky says exchange with comedian Elon Gold was not ‘about rape’ but rather a jab at NYT’s ‘blood libel’ against Israeli jailers, which included the allegation
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrives outside Ofer military prison, located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the West Bank, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
June 3, 2026, 11:33 pm
High Court annuls government ban on Red Cross visits for Palestinian security prisoners
Court unanimously rules state must allow for visits, doesn’t give timeframe; government has justified ban by comparing conditions of Israeli hostages in Gaza, though none remain
By Jeremy Sharon
Members of the Red Cross watch while Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release from Ketziot Prison as part of a deal in exchange for hostages held in Gaza, on February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 3, 2026, 11:25 pm
Israel vowed to sue over NYT’s abuse allegations. There’s no evidence it has, or will
It’s questionable whether Israel can file a defamation suit against the New York Times over claims of sexual abuse in prisons, or if it should, given the risk of what could come out in court
By Jeremy Sharon
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