Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition.

In a 2–1 decision, justices found that current food rations in Israel’s prisons fell short of legal standards and that starvation could not be used as a form of punishment. Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, writing for the majority, called adequate nutrition “the A, B, C of the rule of law” and said evidence presented to the court raised “real doubts” about whether prisoners were receiving enough food in practice.

The ruling came in response to petitions filed in April 2024 by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and NGO Gisha. The groups alleged that National Security Minister I

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