Israel advancing ‘crocodile prison’ plan against Palestinian abductees
The Israeli regime is advancing plans to introduce crocodiles into prisons in an effort to prevent Palestinian abductees, being held illegally in jails, from breaking out of the facilities.
The Israeli regime’s environment minister signed a decree on Wednesday reclassifying Nile crocodiles as being “cultivated” so that Israeli prisons can now use them for security purposes, according to media on Saturday.
The move follows months of pressure from the Israeli regime’s so-called Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
On Thursday, Ben-Gvir celebrated the reclassification of crocodiles, removing them from the category of wild animals, and rebranding them as “cultivated wild animals” instead.
Ben-Gvir plans to use the reptiles to create crocodile-filled moats around a prison holding Palestinian abductees.
The plan is similar to the notorious US President Donald Trump’s now-defunct “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.
The nefarious prison boss Ben Gvir, who oversees the Israel Prison Service (IPS), admitted that the wicked Trump immigration detention center in Florida, southern US, prompted him.
According to the Israeli Walla! news service, obtained information on the number of so-called Palestinian security prisoners who have lost their lives since Ben-Gvir assumed office in December 2022, shows that at least 110 such inmates were killed between January 2023 and June 2025.
The report added that the figure shows a sharp rise and sets an unprecedented record compared with available data from previous decades.
It further noted that the condition of Palestinian prisoners has drastically deteriorated since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023 and the intensification of the arrest campaign targeting Palestinians.
The Palestine Detainees Studies Center states that approximately 60 percent of Palestinian abductees held illegally in Israeli prisons endure chronic illnesses. Tragically, a significant number have lost their lives either while imprisoned or shortly after their release, due to the severity of their medical conditions.
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