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MapBen-Gvir Says Israel Put Eight Palestinian Prisoners In Solitary Over Cake At Lavi
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Eight prisoners at Lavi were placed in solitary confinement for a cake celebrating Ben-Gvir's exit. Ben-Gvir boasted of making Palestinian detainees' lives 'hell' and confiscated their cake.
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Cupcake Leads to Solitary
Itamar Ben-Gvir boasted that Israeli prison authorities punished eight Palestinian prisoners at Lavi (Lavii) with solitary confinement and disciplinary measures after they prepared a primitive cake from leftover food to celebrate his possible departure from the government. Ben-Gvir said the prisoners collected food including bread and jam over several days, and he framed the episode as a “plot” that the Israeli Prison Service commissioner and his team discovered. Ben-Gvir also urged Israelis to vote for his party, calling on them to vote for the Hebrew letter Beit at the ballot boxes.
Israel Hayom reported that the Prison Service administration moved the eight prisoners to solitary cells after discovering they were preparing a cake to celebrate the possible end of Ben-Gvir’s term. The incident came two days before the Israeli elections scheduled for Tuesday to elect members of the Knesset, in preparation for forming a new government.
Prison Staff, Disciplinary Steps
Israel Hayom reported that prison staff found the cake in a cell at Lavi prison and ordered disciplinary proceedings against the eight prisoners before sending them to solitary confinement.
Anadolu Ajansı reported that the prisoners had saved food over several days to make the cake, hoping the Oct. 27 election would end Ben-Gvir’s tenure.
Ben-Gvir’s ministry oversees the Israel Prison Service, and Anadolu Ajansı said he tightened restrictions on Palestinian prisoners by cutting food allocations and prison amenities.
Palestinian rights groups accused Israeli authorities of systematic abuses against prisoners, including torture, starvation, solitary confinement and denial of medical care.
The episode became part of a broader election debate as Ben-Gvir used prison policies as political messaging ahead of the vote.
Election Stakes and Criticism
Ben-Gvir boasted on X that the prisoners “hoarded the little food they had”, saving bread and jam over several days to celebrate on Tuesday if he failed to win re-election.
Ben-Gvir wrote that “A spoonful of jam and another spoonful of jam, a slice of bread and another slice of bread, like this for several days, all to prepare an improvised cake,” and he said the prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said Ben-Gvir’s remarks showed that conditions inside Israeli prisons were part of a systematic policy of retaliation based on “humiliation, torture, starvation and deprivation”.
İlke Haber Ajansı said the Lavi Prison incident became the latest example of how conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners were brought into the election debate.
The reporting tied the punishment to the Oct. 27 Knesset election and to coalition negotiations involving Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party, with the prisoners’ treatment presented as an election campaign issue.