Inside Israel’s prisons, where Ben-Gvir’s cruelty is policy

When Palestinian photojournalist and former prisoner Muath Amarneh saw Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s videos gloating over the decrepit conditions endured by imprisoned Palestinians, he thought of what happened before and after the cameras started rolling.“When a figure like that comes to the prisons, they don’t show everything. What they do show is only certain video clips where the arrogance of that figure comes through,” Amarneh told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Israeli flags become the latest weapon of settlers in West Bank dominationlist 2 of 4Palestine weekly: Israeli ministers push for depopulation of Gazalist 3 of 4UK bans goods from Israeli West Bank settlements: What that really meanslist 4 of 4Shift in British policy on Israel is palpableend of list“But before and after, the prisoner is subjected to humiliation and beatings they don’t show the public. That whole hour of humiliation, they show half a minute of it, or a minute, or two minutes.”Ben-Gvir, who oversees Israel’s prison system in his role, has spent recent weeks broadcasting what he views as his accomplishments in office.An AI-generated video posted to his soci...