The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have raised concerns over a significant increase in the number of people abducted from Gaza amid the Israeli genocide. | The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have reported an alarming rise in the number of detainees from Gaza amid intensified military operations in the region. ● According to the two organizations, over 1,000 people have been abducted from northern Gaza, reflecting a surge in "Israel’s" campaign of detentions and war crimes. ● In a recent statement, the groups highlighted that the Israeli occupation continues to enforce forced disappearances against hundreds of detainees, leaving no clear data on the total number of those abducted from Gaza. ● Early November figures from the Israeli prison administration indicated that 1,627 detainees from Gaza are classified as "unlawful combatants", a number that excludes many detainees in detention camps, it added.

⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7 (02/09/24)

Up to 700 Palestinian children have been kidnapped each year for decades; held hostages by an unlawful occupation who saw in them a threat in the making. Tormented often beyond the breaking point, generations of Palestinians will carry the scars and trauma from the Israeli mass… https://t.co/5CFDIej2Qy

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) November 14, 2024

The UN special rapporteur for Palestine has slammed Israel’s parliament for passing a law authorizing the detention of Palestinian children, who are “tormented often beyond the breaking point” in Israeli custody. | Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in a Thursday post on X, characterized the experiences of Palestinian minors in Israeli detention as extreme and often inhumane. ● The UN expert highlighted the grave impact of this policy, noting that up to 700 Palestinian minors are taken into custody each year, a practice she described as part of an unlawful occupation that views these children as potential threats. ● Albanese said Palestinian minors in Israeli custody are “tormented often beyond the breaking point” and that “generations of Palestinians will carry the scars and trauma from the Israeli mass incarceration system.”

Sixteen years after three Iraqi men sued CACI for their torture at Abu Ghraib, a US jury awarded them $42 million in damages. | A federal jury on Tuesday ordered a US defense contractor, CACI Premier Technology Inc., to pay $42 million in damages to three Iraqi men who were tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison, according to their lawyers. ■ The company was found liable for its role in the abuse of the three men in 2003 and 2004 at the infamous prison, following a lengthy trial, the Center for Constitutional Rights reported. ■ The center stated that each of the plaintiffs—Suhail Al Shimari, a middle school principal; Asa'ad Zuba'e, a fruit vendor; and Salah Al-Ejaili, a journalist—was awarded $14 million in damages. The three men filed a lawsuit against CACI, a private company based in Arlington, Virginia, in 2008. ■ Abu Ghraib prison, located west of Baghdad, became a powerful symbol of the horrors of the US occupation of Iraq after evidence surfaced of detainee abuse by US soldiers at the facility.

Two more horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp

It's time people stop referring to these places as prisons. These are not prisons. These are concentration camps/torture camps. https://t.co/0U3PIMRTrW pic.twitter.com/bTCAo3f6Jk

— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) September 6, 2024

Since October, Israeli occupation forces have abducted thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, though the exact number of abductees remains unknown. | Hundreds of individuals abducted by "Israel" from the besieged Gaza Strip and detained at the al-Naqab prison are regularly subjected to torture, pointed out the Palestinian Detainees and ex-Detainees Commission. ● The Commission revealed that nearly 1,200 Palestinians are experiencing systematic torture, abuse, and assault, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Tuesday. Testimonies from previously abducted Palestinians revealed horrific incidents that have become normalized in Israeli occupation prisons, including severe violence, rape, electrocution, extreme hunger, humiliation, and various other forms of mistreatment. ● The Commission noted that since October 2023, Israeli detention facilities have turned into sites for torture operations.

■ Israeli Megiddo prison torture 'expression of hatred, sadism': Hamas (Al Mayadeen)
■ When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal (08/25/24)
■ Israel Is in a Death Spiral. Who Will It Take Down With It? (08/25/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24)
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ TORTURE: After 9 months of being in israeli custody, a once perfectly healthy & fit young Palestinian man is released hardly able to stand or walk unaided (07/18/24)

Israel’s war on Gaza live: 13 killed as Israel attacks school, refugee camp

 ● Israel said it attacked the Halimah al-Saadiyah school in northern Gaza, where eight Palestinians were reported killed in tent shelters. Five people were also killed in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
 ● At least 33 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medical sources say.
 ● Witness says Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was “murdered” by Israel’s military at a protest against illegal Israeli settlements near Beita in the occupied West Bank.
 ● Bana Amjad Bakr, a 13-year-old girl, was among dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank over the past week, the Wafa news agency reports.
 ● At least 40,878 people have been killed and 94,454 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.

■ Live blog: Israel bombs school and homes in Gaza, killing 13 Palestinians (TRT World)
■ Israeli Megiddo prison torture 'expression of hatred, sadism': Hamas (Al Mayadeen)
■ TRT World Exclusive: Gaza amputee in US reflects on war that took her limb (MEDIA)

A prisoner was tied to a desk and apparently electrocuted, footage shows | Ukrainian troops can be seen filming the brutal torture of a defiant Russian prisoner of war (POW) who refused to disparage his country and hail Kiev’s military, in a highly disturbing video circulating on social media. ● The 90-second undated clip depicting the mistreatment of a POW was filmed by an unidentified Ukrainian soldier stationed in occupied Russian territory, apparently in Kursk Region, and shared by several Russian Telegram channels on Tuesday. ● The video shows the interior of an apartment where three handcuffed and blindfolded Russian prisoners are lying or sitting on the floor, while a fourth has been placed in a humiliating position. A fifth soldier, blindfolded, gagged, and stripped of his shirt, boots, and socks, is tied to an upside-down desk in the other room. ● Mockingly referring to the prisoners as “Ivans,” one Ukrainian captor asks them why they are silent, before approaching the one tied to the desk. He then removes the gag and asks what unit he belongs to. When he gets no answer, the Ukrainian hits him in the face.

Newly-published testimonies from Palestinian detainees have revealed more instances of stomach-churning abuse by Israeli prison guards. | A new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has revealed gruesome cases of torture against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, with an “overwhelming majority of them” being held without trial or charge. ● The report, consisting of detailed accounts from 55 prisoners, found that the conditions of detainees have drastically worsened since October 7, even for those who have been held for years before the attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas. ● Thousands of Palestinians, classified as "security prisoners," are incarcerated in Israeli prisons at any given time. This classification entails numerous restrictions and stringent conditions regarding their prison sentences, incarceration conditions, and security arrangements, as outlined in Israel’s so-called Prison Ordinance. ● The number of Palestinians detained by Israel and classified as "security prisoners" has nearly doubled since the start of the Gaza war. As of early July 2024, there were 9,623 Palestinians incarcerated, with 4,781 of them detained without trial, without being informed of the allegations against them, and without access to the right to defend themselves, the report states. Since October 7, at least 60 people have died in Israeli custody, with 48 of them from Gaza, according to the report. None of the criminal investigations into these deaths have resulted in prosecutions.

⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
■ "Welcome to hell": Israel's torture camps (Thomas Fazi)

■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24)
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)

Israel is responsible for the death of former Palestinian prisoner Wafaa Jarrar following her release from detention, the Popular Resistance Committees said yesterday. | Israel released Wafa on 31 May after a surgery to amputate her legs, which had been injured during her arrest on 21 May. She was the wife of Abdul Jabbar Jarrar, 58, who has been held under administrative detention – without charge or trial – since February. She leaves behind four children.

A Swiss court recently ruled that the parents of a minor "stolen" by the government should provide legal documents to allow the child a gender alteration intervention despite them disagreeing with the procedure. Three years ago, the kid was separated from her parents because they refused to give their daughter puberty blockers. The kid, now 16 years old, wanted to transition into a boy. Now that the parents lost the case, the highest court in the canton of Geneva, the Court of Justice, is now ordering them to hand over the needed documents so they can submit the teenager to the alteration procedure.

"Held in cage-like facilities, stripped naked for prolonged periods, and wearing only diapers;" these are some of what Palestinians detainees are subjected to in Israeli prisons. | The United Nations Human Rights Office concluded that Palestinians abducted from Gaza since October 7 have been tortured. ● The UN report gathered testimony from men, women, and children who had been detained, who described being "held in cage-like facilities, stripped naked for prolonged periods, wearing only diapers." ● UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has lately said testimony received by his office suggested Israeli authorities have inflicted "appalling acts" on Palestinians, including "waterboarding and the release of dogs." ● Many have been held without charge or access to a lawyer and in "deplorable conditions," the report added.

■ Palestinian Prisoner Dies of Torture in Israeli Detention Camp (IMEMC)
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Schism in 'Israel': Detained soldiers accused of rape called 'heroes' (07/30/24)

Eight reservists have been accused of sodomizing a prisoner with a broomstick | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrested eight reservists on Monday as part of a probe into alleged torture of a Palestinian captive, prompting rioters, including several lawmakers, to break into a military base demanding their release. One argued that nothing was off-limits when it came to dealing with Hamas. ● Ten soldiers were originally caught up in the investigation. Two were released early on Wednesday, while eight were ordered to remain in custody through Sunday. According to the IDF, they have been accused of aggravated sodomy, causing bodily harm, abuse, and conduct unbecoming of a soldier. ● The arrest of the reservists on Monday interrupted a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, as a MP of the ruling Likud party, Hanoch Milwidsky, tried to walk out in protest.

💬 “To insert a stick in a person’s rectum, is that legitimate?” asked Ahmad Tibi, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker.
💬 “Yes!” Milwidsky shouted back. “If he is a Nukhba [Hamas unit], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”

■ IDF Soldiers 'Claim They Raped Palestinian Detainee in Self-Defense' (InfoLib)
■ Israeli Lawmakers Debate Whether It's Okay to Rape Palestinian Prisoners (InfoLib)
■ State Department Won’t Call Israeli Rape of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime (Antiwar.com)
■ Israel guilty of 'extermination, torture, sexual violence' in Gaza: UN probe (06/13/24)
■ Schism in 'Israel': Detained soldiers accused of rape called 'heroes' (07/30/24)

The Israeli army has announced a suspension of "critical security discussions regarding escalation in the North," citing the attack on the Beit Lid military base by right-wing gangs on Monday evening. [...] Reports confirm that one Palestinian detainee was subjected to gang rape by 9 or 10 Israeli soldiers and endured severe torture, resulting in paralysis and current hospitalization. According to an Israeli Army Radio report, the abuse occurred approximately three weeks ago at the Sde Teiman detention facility. The victim was discovered at the military base in critical condition and was subsequently transported to a hospital for treatment and surgery. [...]It is worth noting that Sde Teiman, a military installation in southern occupied Palestine, has gained notoriety as a site likened to a "New Guantanamo," where the Israeli army reportedly engages in the torture and killing of Palestinian civilians of all ages, including children, who have been abducted from various areas of the Gaza Strip since the onset of the war on October 7. These individuals are brought to the facility for initial interrogation, as stated by the Israeli military.

■ IDF Soldiers 'Claim They Raped Palestinian Detainee in Self-Defense' (InfoLib)
■ Israeli Lawmakers Debate Whether It's Okay to Rape Palestinian Prisoners (InfoLib)
■ State Department Won’t Call Israeli Rape of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime (Antiwar.com)
■ Israel guilty of 'extermination, torture, sexual violence' in Gaza: UN probe (06/13/24)

In another spine-chilling incident, 24-year-old Palestinian man Muhammad Bhar, who was suffering from Down syndrome and autism, was killed by an Israeli army dog in broad daylight. | Bhar’s diabolic murder earlier this month sent shock waves across the globe and once again brought to focus the genocidal war crimes of the Israeli regime against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. ● Bhar family, which had been displaced at least five times during the war, sought refuge in their home in eastern Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood when Israeli troops stormed their house on June 27. ● The regime forces first unleashed their sniffer dogs into the house. The dogs instantly attacked Bhar who was made to sit in the safest corner of the living room by his family.

After 9 months of being in israeli custody, a once perfectly healthy & fit young Palestinian man is released hardly able to stand or walk unaided pic.twitter.com/QLKrePtV4m

— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) July 9, 2024

■ 'I have the prison inside me': The emaciated Palestinian bodybuilder broken by Israel (MEE)

On Monday, Independent media outlet +972 Magazine released a report detailing interviews the outlet did with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, which describe a policy that allowed soldiers to virtually fire at will and required soldiers to burn the homes of Palestinians that they occupied. | The interviewees also alleged that the bodies of Palestinian civilians were allowed to rot in the street and were only hidden by the IDF before international organizations traveled through the area. One soldier testified that soldiers often would fire indiscriminately to blow off steam during the operation. “They report it as ‘normal fire,’ which is a codename for ‘I’m bored, so I shoot.” Another soldier said there was “total freedom of action,” for the IDF in Gaza.

💬 “If there is [even] a feeling of threat, there is no need to explain – you just shoot,” the soldier described. “It is permissible to shoot at their center mass, not into the air. It’s permissible to shoot everyone, a young girl, an old woman.”

■ ‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza (+972 Magazine)
■ Three Gazans found dead after release from Israeli custody (aNews)
■ Involvement in, and Incitement to Genocide — Report to The Hague (10/31/23)
👉 Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)

The New York Times has revealed multiple atrocities allegedly committed by Western mercenaries against Russian POWs | Russia’s Investigative Committee has said it will probe war crimes allegedly committed by a mercenary unit fighting for Ukraine, as Moscow accuses the West of ignoring Kiev's human rights violations in the conflict. ● On Saturday, the New York Times published a report describing Russian prisoners of war being executed by the so-called Chosen Company – an international mercenary unit led by a former US Army National Guard soldier. In one incident, a seriously injured Russian serviceman was allegedly killed while surrendering and pleading for help.

💬 “Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will look into more crimes by Ukraine’s armed formations,” the agency stated on their Telegram channel on Saturday, noting that “information is being circulated in the media about a crime committed against a wounded Russian prisoner of war who was killed with a shot to the head.”

Earlier in the day, Russia’s ambassador-at-large for Ukraine’s crimes, Rodion Miroshnik, said that “all the data cited by the publication will be verified and analyzed” by law enforcement agencies. He added that Moscow would also demand that international organizations with representatives in Ukraine verify the information, which, if confirmed, would qualify “as a violation of key norms and principles of humanitarian law, amounting to war crimes.”

■ New British PM assures Ukraine of ‘unshakable’ support (RT.com)
■ Western mercenaries killed Russian POWs – German medic (RT.com)
■ Moscow Slams 'Ridiculous' Western Media Silence on Brutal Killing of Russian PoWs by Ukrainian Mercs (Sputnik)
■ Washington has become an accomplice to Kiev’s crimes — Sergey Lavrov (05/30/24)
■ Russia's Lavrov Reveals to Sputnik What Will Happen to Ukrainian Officials Charged With War Crimes (12/31/23)
■ White House de facto admits to committing war crimes in Ukraine — Russian Embassy (07/10/2)

Six months after the ICJ's provisional measures, torture allegations continue unabated in Syria. | A UN expert has urged Syria to implement the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and take steps to eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment in the country. [...] The top UN court issued provisional measures on November 16, ordering Syria to take all necessary measures to prevent acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment while also instructing the regime to ensure that no one under its control can commit such acts and that evidence related to torture allegations is preserved.

A political row has broken out in Israel after about 50 Palestinian detainees from Gaza were released, including Muhammad Abu Salamiya, director of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. | Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right internal security minister described it as “security recklessness”. Haaretz reports that sources close to defense minister Yoav Gallant have said he was not aware that the release was planned, and that he was not involved. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that he had ordered an immediate inquiry, but noted that “the decision to release the prisoners follows High Court hearings,” and that releases were determined “independently by security officials.” [...] Upon his release, speaking from Nasser hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said:

💬 All the Palestinian detainees are suffering. I left them in a very dire condition. My message is that their issue must be part of any negotiations until all the Palestinian detainees are released. Al-Shifa Hospital will be rebuilt and it will be once again a beacon of healthcare for all the Palestinians, not only Gazans. I will resume my duties as soon as it is feasible. ● Israel arrests everyone, including medical teams. There are prisoners who died from torture, and there are physicians and medical staff members who are still being held and in need of treatment. We are happy about the release but we left behind thousands who are enduring indescribable suffering.

WikiLeaks confirmed the information of the American court on the conclusion of the transaction on the pleading of guilt between Assange and the Prosecutor's office of the United States | "He (Assange - approx. TASS) left the prison of the maximum security regime Belmarsh on the morning of June 24, after 1,901 days in its walls. The High Court of London released him on bail, and in the afternoon he was released to Stansted airport, where he boarded a plane and flew from the UK," - stated in the message of the organization in the social network X (formerly Twitter). WikiLeaks also confirmed the information of the American court on the conclusion of a plea deal between Assange and the US prosecutor's office. At the same time, according to the organization, it was not yet "officially finalized."

■ After Bangkok Stopover Julian Assange Will Be Heading To A Little-Known Pacific Island Next (Forbes)
■ Julian Assange 'pays $500,000 for chartered flight to Australia' as free man after striking US plea deal
■ Julian Assange's wife Stella 'elated' he is set to be freed (Reuters)

The investigation also determined that Israeli leaders are responsible of 'weaponizing' starvation against Palestinians in Gaza and 'instigating' a pattern of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank | The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on 12 June concluded that Israeli authorities are guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed during the eight-month-long campaign of genocide in Gaza. ● During its investigation, the COI found that Israeli authorities are responsible for “the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare, murder or willful killing, intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects, forcible transfer, sexual violence, torture and inhuman or cruel treatment, arbitrary detention, and outrages upon personal dignity.”

■ Israeli Aggression Continues on 250th Day: Gaza Strip Suffers More Martyrs and Wounded (Al Manar TV)
■ Israel launches air, land, sea strikes against so-called safe zone in Gaza Strip (PressTV)
■ World witnessing ‘unique level’ of death, destruction in war-torn Gaza Strip: UN chief (PressTV)

An anonymous Israeli doctor has revealed a harrowing account of the treatment faced by Palestinians abducted from Gaza. | An anonymous Israeli doctor has come forward with a disturbing account of the conditions Palestinians abducted from Gaza are subjected to. At the request of the Israeli occupation forces, the surgeon was sent to Sde Teiman military base in the al-Naqab desert to operate on a Palestinian abductee from Gaza who suffered from gunshot wounds. ● According to the doctor's account, the patients have no names. They are all strapped to their beds, unable to move. They are blindfolded and stripped down to their underwear. They wear diapers, the doctor detailed. "This is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention and the WHO Code of Ethics. It is far more than just physical and psychological torture," he stressed. ● Reports of abuse at Sde Teiman have already emerged in both Israeli and Arab media, following an outcry from Israeli and Palestinian rights groups about the conditions there. However, this rare testimony from an Israeli doctor working at the facility provides additional insight into “Israel's” policy of systematic torture and abuse amid its genocide in Gaza. It further challenges the Israeli government's repeated claims that it operates by accepted international practices and laws.

The Israeli occupation starves a 13-year-old child to death in Gaza as human rights violations continue to escalate against the people of Palestine. | Once again, the Israeli occupation shows its true colors as it starved a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Gaza to death due to its closure of the Rafah humanitarian corridor, underlining the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis in the blockaded, war-torn strip. ● The child, Abdul Qader al-Sarhi, succumbed to malnutrition at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, according to a report by Palestine’s official news agency WAFA. ● Local medical sources reported that the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip has now risen to 37 as the Israeli occupation's aggression continues unabated in the southern city of Rafah. The dire health situation in Gaza has deteriorated further, with hospitals all over the strip being out of service and unable to provide necessary medical care.

Robert Inlakesh | Israel’s claim to have lost control over military units in Gaza is an attempt to gain legal cover for its troops’ war crimes and masks a far deeper issue of systemic impunity inside the occupation army. | Several months after media commentators began predicting a “strategic defeat” for Israeli forces in Gaza, Israel’s military high command is claiming it has lost control over various units in their armed forces. ■ The argument appears to scapegoat occupation soldiers to provide plausible deniability for their superiors and dissociate them from war crimes charges. The vast body of evidence emerging on these alleged ‘rogue Israeli units’ could potentially lead to a damning indictment of Tel Aviv’s military leadership. ■ Despite the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent call on Israel to halt its military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains resolute in his vow to invade, even while personally facing an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Marred by internal division and pressure to comply with the ICJ order, Tel Aviv finds itself in a precarious position.

👉 Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)

■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Reports and a recent investigation by the IOF police find that two Israeli troops have beaten Palestinian detainees to death. | The two Palestinians were abducted by IOF troops in March from Khan Younis using the pretext that they were suspected members of the Palestinian Resistance. When they were taken, they were still alive, and the IOF strapped them and put them in a truck. However, when they arrived at Sde Teiman, a temporary IOF detention facility near Be'er Shevam, they were already dead.

Jonathan Cook | ‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile | On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building not marked on any map. Even the original road sign identifying the site as Facility 1391 had been removed after a local Haaretz newspaper investigation revealed it housed a secret prison. ■ I was the first foreign journalist to track down Facility 1391, most of it hidden within a heavily fortified complex built in the 1930s to suppress resistance to British rule in Palestine. ■ For decades, Israel had secretly held mostly Arab foreign nationals captive at the site, unknown to the Israeli courts, the Red Cross and human rights groups. Many were Lebanese citizens kidnapped during Israel’s 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon. But there were also Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Iranians.

■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Hundreds of civilians are fleeing under the gunfire as the Israeli occupation army is strenuously trying to invade Jabalia refugee camp, faced by fierce Palestinian resistance. pic.twitter.com/qCd86RzAcD

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 13, 2024

Palestinian prisoners were handcuffed for so long that their limbs died and had to be amputated, three Israeli whistleblowers who spoke to US media revealed, detailing a litany of alleged abuses against prisoners held by Israel in the Sde Teiman military base. | The whistleblowers quoted by The Hill said that the base has two parts, one which includes “intense physical restraint” and the other acting as a field hospital where prisoners are strapped to beds, blindfolded, put in diapers and fed through a tube. ● Prisoners were routinely beaten by guards the whistleblowers say, but the torture wasn’t a part of any kind of interrogation program, according to the news agency. “(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” the whistleblower claimed. “It was punishment for what they did on October 7 and punishment for behavior in the camp.” ● A prisoner from the camp claimed that even talking to another prisoner was enough to earn a beating by Israeli guards. [...] The accusations by the whistleblowers and prisoners match the accusations made in a letter addressed to top Israeli officials by an Israeli doctor who worked at the facility. He described a facility where limb amputations caused by consistent handcuffing were unfortunately “a routine event.”

■ Gaza under Israeli fire: 220 days of genocide and loss (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel carpet bombs Gaza with no goal in sight (The Cradle)
■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Heavy Israeli bombardment of Jabalia refugee camp continues. This video shows the bombardment of the medical personnel and journalists in the camp. pic.twitter.com/HFVEA5Be9B

— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) May 12, 2024

At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him. | Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights. A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men’s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves. “We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.” Guards were instructed “to scream uskot” – shut up in Arabic – and told to “pick people out that were problematic and punish them,” the source added.

■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Israel is setting up 'complex network' of checkpoints to prevent 'military age' men from fleeing Rafah assault, senior western official tells MEE | Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity. ● The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault. ● The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps. ● The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war. The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”.

■ 'Israel' has no 'Intl' credit' to invade Rafah: Ex-Israeli General (Al Mayadeen)
■ Live blog: Israeli army 'ready' to invade Gaza's Rafah in 72 hours (TRT World)
■ Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people, Palestinian officials say (Spectrum News)
■ 7 more Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes across Gaza (aNews)
■ The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face (Jonathan Cook)

Media sources report that Palestinian detainee Kareem Abu Saleh died while detained in an Israeli occupation prison. | A Palestinian father of a newborn died on Saturday evening while being detained in Israeli occupation prisons. ● Media sources reported that Kareem Abu Saleh, from the city of Sakhnin in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, was martyred as a result of a surge in Israeli occupation attacks and human rights violations against Palestinian detainees. ● Abu Saleh was blessed with his firstborn two days before his martyrdom inside his cell in the occupation's prisons. Previously, Abu Saleh had spent six years in detention before the Israeli occupation forces re-arrested him 10 days ago.

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