🔴 Shocking Image of Released Palestinian Journalist Mujahid Bani Mifleh Sums Up Reality in Israeli Prisons of Genocide
🔴 ”I learned the true meaning of hunger when a piece of bread becomes a dream,” says freed journalist

June 24, 2026 

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Wednesday that the medical condition reached by the freed Palestinian journalist Mujahid Bani Mifleh, about six months after his release—following a grueling medical journey imposed by severe complications he suffered as a result of the horror he experienced in Israeli occupation prisons during six months without trial or charge, encapsulates the true meaning of the occupation’s extermination prisons which have turned into a tool of slow and direct killing and torture against Palestinian political prisoners.

The PPS affirmed that the case of journalist Bani Mifleh is not an exception, but rather one of thousands of cases that have faced and continue to face systematic crimes inside the Israeli occupation’s prison system, including torture, starvation, complete denial of medical treatment, and physical and psychological assaults at various levels, in addition to an ongoing policy of psychological terror imposed on prisoners around the clock.

The PPS added that relevant institutions have documented hundreds of cases of released prisoners who left detention in extremely severe physical and psychological conditions, many of which were not made public due to the state of fear, shock, and terror experienced by released prisoners and their families, out of fear of re-arrest. It also noted that a number of released prisoners died shortly after their release, as a result of the crimes and violations they were subjected to during detention.

The occupation had arrested journalist Mujahid under administrative detention in June 2025 and released him in January 2026. Just two days after his release, he suffered a severe brain hemorrhage and was transferred to the hospital in critical condition. He underwent a series of surgeries after facing serious health complications and is still awaiting a long and complex treatment journey.

In an emotional testimony given after undergoing a 14-month experience of detention and medical treatment, Bani Mifleh spoke about the extent of suffering he endured inside prisons, saying he learned the true meaning of hunger when a piece of bread becomes a distant dream, and the meaning of humiliation when a person is stripped of the simplest aspects of daily life and everything is controlled by the occupation.

He added that he came to know pain when the body becomes incapable of rest, and the harshness of nights when hours turn into a heavy burden of pain, reflection, and fear of the unknown, eventually reaching the stage of treatment where he experienced the meaning of helplessness—when the simplest daily movements become an achievement worthy of celebration.

He noted that the experience of detention was not limited to physical pain, but also redefined life’s simplest blessings: sufficient food, water, safe sleep, the ability to move, and the freedom to live with dignity.

In a related context, the PPS pointed out that the targeting of Palestinian journalists has witnessed an unprecedented escalation following the start of the genocide, whether through assassination campaigns that have killed hundreds of journalists in the Gaza Strip, or through arrest and persecution campaigns. 

According to documentation and monitoring, the number of arrests among journalists has exceeded 245 cases since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza.