27 Gazan detainees who were held in Israeli military bases died since the beginning of the war on Gaza.

The website of the newspaper "Haaretz" reported on Thursday that the detainees died while being held at the "Sde Teman" base near Beersheba or the "Anatot" base in Jerusalem or during interrogations in other security facilities inside Israel.

The Israeli army claimed, according to the newspaper, that some of the detainees were injured during the fighting and another section suffered from a complex health condition before their arrest.

The Israeli army has arrested hundreds of Gazans since the beginning of the war based on the “unlawful combatants” law, which allows arbitrary arrests without trial. These detainees are not considered prisoners of war. This law allows Palestinians to be detained for 75 days without being brought to court.

Most of the Gazan detainees are detained immediately after their arrest in facilities inside the “Sde Teman” base, which lack the basic necessities of living, and are interrogated by members of Unit 504 of the Israeli Military Intelligence. In many cases, it turns out that these arrests are carried out arbitrarily, as many of them are released after investigations because they are not involved in the fighting, while others are transferred to prisons.

According to data provided by the Israeli Prison Service to the human rights organization “The Center for the Defense of the Individual,” the number of Gazan detainees in prisons under the “Unlawful Combatants Law" is 793 detainees, in addition to hundreds of detainees under “criminal procedures” and an unknown number of Gazan detainees in facilities affiliated with For the Israeli army.

In previous reports, the newspaper quoted Gazan detainees as confirming that Israeli soldiers used violence against them during interrogation. Detainees who have been released clearly show signs of torture. The newspaper also quoted an Israeli source familiar with what is happening in Sde Teman, saying that the soldiers are punishing the detainees and beating them.

A report on an investigation conducted by UNRWA confirmed that Israeli forces used brutal means of torture and abuse against hundreds of detainees from the Gaza Strip, who had been captured since the beginning of the war on Gaza. The report included testimonies from detainees from men and women who said that they were beaten, stripped of their clothes, and robbed. They were blindfolded, sexually assaulted, and denied access to lawyers and doctors, often for more than a month.

Among the detainees who died were two workers from the Gaza Strip who held a work permit. They were arrested immediately after the outbreak of war, claiming that Israel had canceled all work permits for Palestinians following the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack on October 7 last year.