Israel Prisoners
Updated 2024-08-26
Israel Tortured Prisoners A doctor released from Israel’s torture camp was asked by a fellow prisoner to find his family in Gaza and deliver them a message: “It is better for them to die than to be captured and held here” https://www.instagram.com/p/C7H78o_r5OT/
2024-08-16 When rabbis say nothing in the face of abuse In a world where rabbinic proclamations appear regularly, rabbinical silence becomes a statement. While there is disagreement about the appropriateness of rabbis making political endorsements, there is a consensus that it is a rabbinical responsibility to promote moral behavior. In this context, the lack of rabbinic response to the campaign to protest the Israeli army’s investigating accusations of sexual and other kinds of abuse of Hamas prisoners is significant. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/when-rabbis-say-nothing-in-the-face-of-abuse/ar-AA1oUV0e?
2024-08-16 Why Israeli Soldiers Rape, Torture, and Massacre Instilling fear in the Palestinian people is not a side effect of the IDF’s brutal violations of human rights. It is the strategy.
On October 25, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore.” It might sound odd that Feiglin saw the element of fear as critical to Israel’s well-being if not its very survival. In actuality, the fear element is directly linked to Israel’s behavior and fundamental to its political discourse.
Historically, Israel has carried out massacres with a specific political strategy in mind: to instill the desired fear to drive Palestinians off their land. Deir Yassin, Tantara and the over 70 documented massacres during the Palestinian Nakba, or Catastrophe, are cases in point. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/idf-rape-torture
2024-08-16 ‘Insane Torture’: Israeli Soldiers Confirm Horrific Abuse of Palestinians at Sde Teiman An Israeli newspaper on Friday published interviews with Israel Defense Forces reservists and medical staff who witnessed the “day-to-day torture” of Palestinian prisoners at the notorious Sde Teiman prison in the Negev Desert, where dozens of detainees have died and others were allegedly raped.
The Israelis described seeing torture and abuse of Palestinians detained in Sde Teiman, who included everyone from Hamas fighters to innocent civilians, and ranged in age from children to octogenarians. “We said, ‘It’s torture.’ But you don’t get into it; you change the subject immediately.” “What’s happening there is total dehumanization. You don’t really relate to them as if they’re real human beings,” said one public hospital physician who worked at Sde Teiman. “In the end it’s no less than torture. There are ways to administer even poor treatment, or even to torture a person, without crushing cigarettes on them.” “Teeth were broken, bones were broken,” said one soldier. “You notice how easy it is to lose your humanity,” said another. https://www.commondreams.org/news/sde-teiman-torture
2024-08-08 Israel journalist urges rape to become state policy for Palestinian prisoners An Israeli journalist advocated rape, Thursday, as an official policy by the state for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Anadolu Agency reports. “The only thing that is a problem for me here is that it is not a regulated policy of the state to abuse the (Palestinian) detainees,” far-right journalist, Yehuda Schlesinger, said on a television program on Channel 12 when asked if raping prisoners is acceptable.
He justified his comments by claiming, “Because first of all, they deserve it, and it is great revenge that we need to give them.” “And, secondly, maybe it will also serve us a little more as a deterrent,” he said. “It is just a shame that we don’t do it in an institutionalised way as a part of regulations for torture of prisoners.”
The comments follow reports by media outlets that showed a video of Israeli soldier raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert in southern Israel. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240808-israel-journalist-urges-rape-to-become-state-policy-for-palestinian-prisoners/?
2024-07-31 UN Report Details Vast, Systemic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention Israeli forces are arbitrarily imprisoning at least 9,400 Palestinians, including children, the UN found. The UN has released a report detailing the many instances of systemic torture and abuse that Israeli soldiers and police have performed on Palestinians they are imprisoning arbitrarily just in the last 10 months of Israel’s genocide.
The 23-page report by the UN Human Rights Office finds that Israeli forces are holding at least 9,400 Palestinians, including many children, in prisons and military facilities, with conditions in military facilities like the infamous Sde Teiman being particularly brutal. Israeli officers relentlessly torture detainees, using all variety of methods, encompassing humiliation, deprivation of basic needs, and physical abuse. The report also includes numerous testimonies from survivors of rape by Israeli guards. https://truthout.org/articles/un-report-details-vast-systemic-torture-of-palestinians-in-israeli-detention/
2024-07-30 Israeli Militants Riot Over Investigation Into Torture of Palestinian Prisoner Israeli militants waged a violent riot on Monday, breaking into multiple facilities to support nine Israeli soldiers who were slated to appear in a military court for a hearing over allegations that they had raped a Palestinian man who they were imprisoning at a notorious Israeli torture camp.
The groups of protesters pushed up against soldiers as they broke into the Sde Teiman camp, where many Palestinians abducted from Gaza have been tortured in recent months, and a military court in a base where the accused soldiers were being held. The Associated Press reported that “several hundred” protesters broke into Sde Teiman, with some wielding megaphones and calling for the reservists to be released. https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-militants-riot-over-investigation-into-torture-of-palestinian-prisoner/
2024-06-24 Palestine Post: Doctors Without Borders Doc Returns from Gaza; CAIR Demands Condemnation of Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Detainees On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with James Smith who recently returned to London following two months of performing emergency medical care in Gaza. We speak with him alongside Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR Press release calling on Biden Admin to condemn torture of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-on-biden-admin-to-condemn-torture-of-palestinian-detainees-by-israeli-forces/ https://kpfa.org/episode/law-disorder-june-24-2024/
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