At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023 but the real toll is likely to be higher as hundreds of people detained in Gaza were missing, an Israel-based human rights group said.

The Israeli authorities have only provided comprehensive data for the first eight months of the war. The military had last updated data on deaths in detention for May 2024, and the Israel Prison Service (IPS) in September 2024.

The Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) tracked deaths from causes including physical violence, medical neglect and malnutrition.

The Guardian quoted Naji Abbas, director of the prisoners and detainees department at PHRI, as saying that though the total number of deaths charted is significantly higher than other recent estimates, it likely fails to capture th

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