RT Investigations | Just outside a EU country capital, the agency ran a black site with the knowledge and assistance of the local authorities | Throughout the summer, a major scandal has been brewing in Lithuania. In late July, the country suffered a landmark defeat in the European Court of Human Rights in a case brought by Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national held in secret detention and brutally tortured for four years in CIA black sites around the world – including Lithuania. While Western governments and news outlets have ignored the judgement, the ECHR’s conclusions produced bitter political division locally, with the opposition calling for a new investigation into the CIA’s use and abuse of the country during the US-led ‘War on Terror’.

Three Israeli reservists, who had gang-raped a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military prison, are suing the Tel Aviv regime for 18 million shekels (roughly $6 million), after the army cleared them of all charges earlier this year. | The men were part of a group of five reservists who were indicted in February 2025 for an assault that took place on July 5, 2024. ● The indictment details that a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian abductee held illegally in the Israeli prison endured kicking, stomping, being beaten with clubs, being dragged on the ground, and being tasered multiple times, including on the head, for around 15 minutes. ● A soldier also inflicted a stab wound near the abductee’s anus with a sharp object, resulting in a tear to his rectum. ● The abductee sustained seven fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and significant internal injuries, necessitating surgery on his large intestine and the creation of a stoma, which was subsequently removed. ● The attack was recorded on video and was made public when surveillance footage was leaked and aired by Channel 12 in August 2024, leading to widespread outrage in the Israeli-occupied territories and around the world.

Six Pakistani men are accused of abusing children in “the most degrading way imaginable” | The trial of six members of a Pakistani ‘grooming gang’ has quietly restarted in Manchester. The retrial hasn’t made the headlines, and looking at the sordid details of the case, it’s clear the British establishment wants to keep it that way. ● The six suspects were alleged members of the Rochdale grooming gang – a group of Muslim men, predominantly Pakistani, who trafficked, sexually abused, and raped underage white British girls in the northern English town between the 1980s and 2010s. More than 75 men have been charged and 53 convicted since Greater Manchester Police began investigating the gang in 2010. ● The suspects have been charged with 46 counts of rape, sexual assault, and ‘assault by penetration’, with two of the men facing more than a dozen charges each.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has warned of the danger posed by Israeli occupation authorities beginning preparations for a dedicated wing for Palestinian prisoners sentenced to death, including a chamber for carrying out executions, calling for urgent international action to halt the measures. | Abdullah al-Zaghari, head of the PPS, said the move comes as Israel turns legislation and incitement into concrete measures targeting Palestinian prisoners. He described preparations to carry out death sentences against them as a “crime against humanity.” ● Al-Zaghari said the Israeli Knesset passed a law in March allowing the death penalty to be imposed on Palestinian prisoners. Under the law, Palestinians convicted of murder before military courts would face a mandatory death sentence unless the court determines that exceptional circumstances justify reducing the sentence to life imprisonment. ● Israel 24 reported Tuesday, citing the office of far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, that preparations had begun for the first dedicated wing for Palestinian prisoners sentenced to death, including a special execution chamber.

■ WATCH beaming Israeli security minister unveil execution facility for Palestinians (RT)
■ Ben Gvir blocks state inspectors from entering Israel’s notorious torture centers (06/01/26)

The escalated abuse against Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya following a legal challenge to his detention has sent a chilling message to the families of detained medical workers in Gaza. | Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the former director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, suffered multiple injuries, including fractured ribs, after enduring severe beatings by Israeli prison authorities on July 27, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office. The group described it as the “most difficult day” of his imprisonment since being detained without charge over a year and a half ago. ■ Israeli forces have killed approximately 1,700 health care workers since October 2023 and arrested more than 370 others, 82 of whom remain in custody, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, Dr. Nahed Abu Taima, and Dr. Mohammed Obaid, along with several surgeons and specialized doctors, according to the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh. Every hospital in Gaza has come under attack by the Israeli military and less than half are partially functioning while the rest have been closed down. The absence of these doctors has led to the suspension of vital medical services that thousands of patients rely on.

■ Rights group calls for disclosure of Gaza detainees’ fate, investigation into Israeli abuses (Press TV)
■ Bodies of Evidence (06/14/26) (VIDEO)

■ Ben Gvir blocks state inspectors from entering Israel’s notorious torture centers (06/01/26)
■ Israeli prison guards 'gang raped, tortured' dozens of Palestinian detainees, UN probe finds (05/30/26)
■ Sexual abuse in the treatment of Palestinians under Israeli occupation (05/03/26)
■ Israeli Sde Teiman Guards Admit To Training Guard Dogs To Rape (04/25/26)
■ How Israel Weaponized Sexual Torture Against Palestinian Hostages (11/25/25)
■ They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank (11/08/25)
■ Torture and Rape Are All in A Day’s Work for Israel’s Defenders (11/08/25)
■ Israeli rapists announce they ‘will win’ (11/04/25)
■ What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel (10/18/25)
■ Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution (10/16/25)
■ Tortured and humiliated: 'Israel’s' abduction of 160 Gaza medics (02/25/25)
■ Inside Ofer's eerie alleys of torture, abuse, and 'fascism' (12/18/24)
■ Torture and neglect: Harrowing testimonies from Ofer detention camp (11/18/24)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
📌 De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape (Ilana Mercer)
■ '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)
■ Schism in 'Israel': Detained soldiers accused of rape called 'heroes' (07/30/24)
■ 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 guilty of 'extermination, torture, sexual violence' in Gaza: UN probe (06/13/24)
■ Israel committed crimes against humanity in Gaza: UN-backed report (06/12/24)
■ Torture in Israeli prisons: Strapped to beds, stripped of clothes (06/03/24)

👉 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 (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 (03/12/24)

Kit Klarenberg | A bitter row has erupted between Kiev and Warsaw, after Volodymyr Zelensky renamed a Ukrainian military unit the “Heroes of the UPA”. The UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army - was an ultranationalist faction heavily implicated in the Holocaust, which slaughtered up to 100,000 Polish civilians during World War II. In addition to commemorating the mass-murdering militant group, the corpse of Andriy Melnyk, leader of UPA parent the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), was reburied in Kiev. At a grand accompanying ceremony, Zelensky declared:

The unspeakable horrors inflicted upon Poles - and Communists, Jews, Romani and other “undesirables” - by Melynk and his fellow Nazi collaborators were of course unmentioned. So too that the genocidal nationalism practiced and preached by Melynk was covertly promoted and sponsored for decades by Anglo-American intelligence, within and without Ukraine. The ongoing proxy conflict is a direct product of this little-known spectral meddling, which was specifically concerned with promoting cultural and ethnic difference, and enmity, between Russians and Ukrainians globally. ■ As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a US special forces invasion of Ukraine. Intended to collapse the wider Soviet Union, the Agency’s conspiracy depended heavily on recruiting local fascists as footsoldiers. A significant stumbling block to the Agency’s plot, however, was much of Ukraine’s population actually harbouring “few grievances” against Russians or Communism. “Points of conflict” between Russians and Ukrainians, which could be exploited by the CIA to foment a mass uprising, were scant.

For many around the world, wars cause death and destruction. But for Eric Prince, the founder of American private security company Blackwater, it’s a method for profit.

📌 The US military lobby is looking for revenge against Iran (Elena Panina)

A documentary revealing israel’s horrific crimes against the Palestinians. This is a film the entire world needs to see. No living thing deserves treatment like this. "the most moral army in the world." israel must be stopped before the way of Palestine becomes the way of the world.

■ Ben Gvir blocks state inspectors from entering Israel’s notorious torture centers (06/01/26)
■ Israeli prison guards 'gang raped, tortured' dozens of Palestinian detainees, UN probe finds (05/30/26)
■ Sexual abuse in the treatment of Palestinians under Israeli occupation (05/03/26)
■ Israeli Sde Teiman Guards Admit To Training Guard Dogs To Rape (04/25/26)
■ How Israel Weaponized Sexual Torture Against Palestinian Hostages (11/25/25)
■ They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank (11/08/25)
■ Torture and Rape Are All in A Day’s Work for Israel’s Defenders (11/08/25)
■ Israeli rapists announce they ‘will win’ (11/04/25)
■ What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel (10/18/25)
■ Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution (10/16/25)
■ Tortured and humiliated: 'Israel’s' abduction of 160 Gaza medics (02/25/25)
■ Inside Ofer's eerie alleys of torture, abuse, and 'fascism' (12/18/24)
■ Torture and neglect: Harrowing testimonies from Ofer detention camp (11/18/24)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
📌 De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape (Ilana Mercer)
■ '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)
■ Schism in 'Israel': Detained soldiers accused of rape called 'heroes' (07/30/24)
■ 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 guilty of 'extermination, torture, sexual violence' in Gaza: UN probe (06/13/24)
■ Israel committed crimes against humanity in Gaza: UN-backed report (06/12/24)
■ Torture in Israeli prisons: Strapped to beds, stripped of clothes (06/03/24)

👉 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 (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 (03/12/24)

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the fanatic Israeli minister for security affairs, says the Lebanese women and youth must be kidnapped as a means of exerting pressure on the resistance movement Hezbollah. | He made his proposal during a security cabinet meeting on Tuesday, urging officials to adopt more aggressive measures against the Lebanese group as discussions focused on expanding Israel's military invasion in Lebanon.

The security minister’s office responded to the report, saying Ben Gvir is ‘very proud’ of what goes on inside Israel’s detention facilities | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – who runs Israel’s Prison Service – is refusing to allow state inspectors from entering jails and detention facilities, according to a 27 May report by Haaretz newspaper.

A list of inspectors appointed by the Israeli Justice Ministry and Public Defender’s Office to inspect jails was handed over to the national security minister in December last year. According to the report, Ben Gvir has not approved the list and is actively disregarding inquiries on the issue.

This is utterly brutal and outrageous. There is no excuse for Dutch police violently assaulting a pregnant woman simply because she wanted to stay with her detained PALESTINIAN husband.

The Dutch authorities must ensure full accountability for this blatant human rights… pic.twitter.com/3zhTifOXrB

— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) May 31, 2026

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei reacted on Monday to a video circulated by Al Jazeera showing a Dutch police officer forcefully throwing a pregnant woman to the ground and dragging her during the arrest of her Palestinian husband. | The incident, which took place on May 19 in the Dutch town of Zeist, gained public attention over the weekend after videos emerged online showing a police officer forcefully pulling a heavily pregnant woman by the arm, causing her to fall to the ground. ● The Al Jazeera report said that the woman went into early labor as a result of her trauma, and later gave birth to a baby girl ahead of schedule. While neither the mother nor the newborn reportedly suffered serious injuries, the incident has sparked scrutiny and renewed questions over the conduct of the police officers involved.

Violations by Israeli guards consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, shooting genitals, touching breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches, and forced nudity | The UN has documented dozens of cases of torture, rape, and sexual violence against Palestinian detainees by Israeli prison guards and interrogators, Haaretz reported on 29 May, citing a new report issued by the office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. ● “Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape,” the report said. ● The UN identified 31 victims from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including 14 men, seven women, nine children, and one girl. [...] In most cases, the torture and sexual violence were carried out during the interrogation of Palestinians at military camps and detention centers, such as the Sde Teiman base and the Etzion detention center, as well as in Israeli prisons, including Megiddo, Ofer, Ramla, HaSharon, Shatta, Nafha, and Damon, and the Gush Etzion police station.

The Dissident | Now, Sde Teiman guards have confirmed that the IDF was deliberately training guard dogs to rape in order to use them as torture against Palestinian detainees. | The Israeli journalist Shaiel Ben-Ephraim has confirmed - via admissions from IDF militants guarding Sde Teiman, Israel’s torture dungeon for Palestinian- that the IDF has been training guard dogs to rape Palestinians inside the torture facility. ■ “Some have said that claims that Israel uses dogs to sexually abuse prisoners are antisemitic blood libels. Unfortunately, there is a good deal of evidence,” Ben-Ephraim wrote, adding that, “I talked to two guards in Sde Teiman, on more than one occasion. One had seen this happen and said it was too awful to talk about. The other said that he had heard about it from others and believed it was true. This happened. This is happening still. The evidence is too overwhelming.” ■ Multiple released Palestinian detainees speaking to human rights organizations have previously recounted being rape by Israeli guard dogs.

Malak Radwan | Breaking the Human Spirit: A Pattern of Sexual Torture | By the time international treaties were drafted, after the world witnessed what humanity is capable of inflicting upon itself, certain acts were marked as absolute red lines. Rape. Sexual assault. Coercive nudity. Sexualized humiliation. Crimes that strip the human being down to their rawest vulnerability. Crimes that, when committed systematically, are defined as crimes against humanity. Yet inside Israeli detention centers, according to survivors, doctors, lawyers, and human rights organizations, these red lines have not only been crossed; they have been erased.

✅ Israeli Rapists And The Depravity Of The Zionist Mind (Kevin Barrett)
✅ Why raping Palestinians is legitimate Israeli military practice (Joseph Massad)
■ What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel (10/18/25)
■ Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution (10/16/25)

Rights groups reveal that Palestinians are being detained in a secret Israeli underground prison without charges, sunlight, or contact with families, raising alarm over inhumane conditions. | "Israel" is detaining dozens of Palestinians from Gaza in a secret underground facility where they are denied sunlight, proper food, and any contact with the outside world, a report by The Guardian revealed. ● Human rights lawyers say the detainees include at least two civilians: a nurse abducted while still in his hospital scrubs and a young food vendor, both held for months without charge or trial. The men are represented by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), whose lawyers say their clients endured severe abuse consistent with previously documented torture in Israeli prisons. [...] All parts of the prison, the cells, a small exercise space, and even the meeting room for lawyers, are underground, meaning that detainees live entirely without natural light. Once designed for 15 "high-risk prisoners", the facility now holds around 100 Palestinians, according to official data obtained by PCATI.

Caitlin Johnstone | Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. | It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. [...] Israel cannot be sustained without nonstop violence. The violence cannot be sustained without hatred. The hatred cannot be sustained without systematic indoctrination. ■ That indoctrination teaches Jewish Israelis from birth that the victims of their genocidal state are all inhuman monsters who would rape and murder them all if Israel ceased its apartheid abuses, militarism, and incessant violence. It teaches them that killing off their empathy and compassion is essential for their survival, because only the Jews who are willing to do whatever it takes to survive are going to make it. ■ Just in case their childhood indoctrination isn’t enough to sway them, Israelis are also made to serve in the military where they spend two years killing off any remaining sense of human decency within themselves as they inflict acts of unfathomable cruelty upon Palestinians as part of their duty to the state.

Philip Giraldi | Let’s try to remove the United States from supporting the carnage | A couple of recent stories relating to the utter bestiality of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians have exposed the criminality of successive US governments in supporting the Jewish state no matter what it does. Observers of the lopsided relationship understand very clearly that Israel’s lobby in the United States, backed up by Jewish billionaires who are willing to spend whatever it takes to corrupt the political system and buy up the media, has succeeded in making Washington a totally controlled client state manipulated by extreme war criminals like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is rewarded by the near complete loyalty of Congress and the White House. The one sided relationship dominates both Republicans and Democrats and has been most evident in the Presidencies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who have chosen to ignore the reality of the Israeli slaughter of some hundreds of thousands of Palestinians using US weapons and Washington’s political protection in international fora. For what it is worth, neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump has spoken out effectively on the murder and torture of the Palestinians by Israel. The irony of it all is that Washington’s subjugation by Israel, far from being politically neutral, does terrible damage to the United States, both in terms of actual costs and the fact that the US is now reviled by much of the world.

✅ Palestine Genocide (Richard Hugus)
■ Israeli rapists announce they ‘will win’ (11/04/25)

The IDF "servicemen" suspected of "abusing" [torturing & killing] a [large number of] Palestinian detainee[s] have demanded “support and gratitude” | Israeli soldiers accused of torturing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention facility have publicly defended their actions, claiming they are being unfairly prosecuted and vowing to “fight for justice.” ● The case relates to a July 2024 incident at the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, where five reservists were initially charged with rape and later indicted for “aggravated abuse” after video footage appeared to show soldiers assaulting a blindfolded Palestinian detainee. The man allegedly sustained multiple injuries, including a ruptured bowel and severe rectal trauma. [...] The scandal escalated further on Monday when a Tel Aviv court ordered the arrest and three-day detention of Tomer-Yerushalmi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the leak “perhaps the most serious public relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding.” Defense Minister Israel Katz accused critics of the accused soldiers of spreading “blood libels.” The incident has drawn international criticism, including from a UN commission, which said last year it exposed only the “tip of the iceberg” regarding detainee abuse in Israeli military facilities.

✅ Israeli Rapists And The Depravity Of The Zionist Mind (Kevin Barrett)
✅ Why raping Palestinians is legitimate Israeli military practice (Joseph Massad)
■ What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel (10/18/25)
■ Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution (10/16/25)

Some bodies show evidence of strangulation, mutilation and being run over by tanks | Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned. Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.

A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains. Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation. Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.

■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp
■ 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)
⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
⚡ 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)

Jeffrey S. Kaye | Under the Shah of Iran, the CIA & Mossad shaped SAVAK into a torture & killing machine. One of its torture victims was current Iran Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei | A joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran would be the culmination of a history of attacks on Iran going back to the U.S.-UK 1953 overthrow of Iran's elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in a coup engineered by the CIA and England’s MI6 intelligence agencies. The CIA refused to admit its involvement in the operation for sixty years! The U.S. and the West have zero moral authority to tell Iran what to do or how to conduct itself. [...] While the Western press-cum-propaganda machine spins out stories about how the average Iranian man or woman in the street is opposed to Iran’s Islamic regime — and no doubt there are some, even many, in opposition — they practically never ask (especially in recent years) if any Iranians remember the previous regime’s reliance on the Shah’s society-wide political repression, courtesy of Western and Israeli intelligence services.

Over 200 Russian POWs have reportedly testified to brutal abuse by Ukrainian forces, including drowning simulations and electrocution. | Ukrainian forces have been accused of engaging in systematic torture of Russian prisoners of war (POWs), allegedly using techniques associated with US interrogation practices. The claims were presented by Maxim Grigoriev, chairman of the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, during a press conference in Moscow on Thursday, TASS reported. ● Grigoriev stated that more than 200 recently exchanged Russian POWs gave testimony detailing acts of abuse, which he described as “absolutely Nazi-like”. He emphasized that the methods used bore a strong resemblance to those previously documented in US military detention facilities. “Prisoners were tortured through the simulation of drowning. Their faces were covered with cloth, and water was poured over them, an agonizing method that prevents breathing. This is American-style torture,” he said. One of the detention rooms where the abuse allegedly took place was named “Baghdad", a detail Grigoriev said suggests the involvement of foreign, particularly American personnel. He argued that such naming, along with the methods used, indicates “the clear involvement of American ‘specialists’.”

Ahmed Hussein Zalloum, a Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, was released on November 26 after spending 22 years in different Israeli prisons. | Zalloum was 22 when the apartheid regime arrested him from his home in the occupied territories, framing him on trumped-up charges that were never proven. ● According to the local prisoners’ advocacy group, the 44-year-old's family tried to appeal against his illegal sentence several times, but the regime courts rejected the petitions repeatedly. ● Detained in 2002, Zalloum experienced years of medical neglect in different Israeli jails, which resulted in various health complications. He struggled with kidney failure and severe internal inflammation. ● The Palestinian man also suffered from injuries as a result of his arrest and custodial torture, with fragments of shrapnel embedded in the left side of his head. He endured chronic stomach and chest inflammations. ● During more than two decades of his illegal incarceration, the occupation authorities even refused to allow his father to visit the Zalloum when he was in critical condition inside the jail.

■ US bypassing law to fund 'Israel' despite rights abuses, lawsuit says (Al Mayadeen)
⚡ 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)

■ Israel kills 40 in a day as ‘world complicit’ in Gaza children starvation (Al Jazeera)

Mohamed Salah | Survivors of the violence against the Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities shares their stories with RT | Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant militant group in northwestern Syria, once presented itself as a local opposition force. Just over a month ago, the group was formally disbanded and became part of the Syrian Defense Ministry, yet its origins tell a far more sinister story. Born out of the ashes of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, HTS carries the same ideological DNA as the world’s most notorious terrorist network. While it has sought to rebrand itself for international legitimacy, its methods remain unchanged: Massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the systematic extermination of those who do not conform to its radical ideology. ■ Nowhere has this been more evident than in Syria’s coastal cities, where HTS and its foreign recruits have unleashed an unspeakable wave of violence against Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities. Entire villages have been erased, their inhabitants slaughtered in the dead of night. Yet, as these horrors unfold, the world remains indifferent, and the silence of international powers only emboldens the perpetrators.

✅ Russia Should Consider Accepting Syria’s Alawites As Refugees (Andrew Korybko)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that captured foreign mercenaries in the country's Kursk region will not be treated as prisoners of war. Article 47 of the Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions denies mercenaries combatant or POW status.

Senior doctors report enduring months of physical abuse as the UN urges the release of those still in detention. | At least 160 healthcare workers from Gaza, including over 20 doctors, remain in Israeli detention, as the World Health Organization (WHO) voiced grave concerns over their safety and well-being. ● Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical NGO, reported that 162 medical staff are still being held, among them some of Gaza’s most senior physicians, while another 24 remain missing after being abducted from hospitals during the war. ● Muath Alser, HWW’s director, condemned the mass detention of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other medical personnel as a violation of international law, emphasizing that it exacerbates civilian suffering by depriving them of critical medical care.

■ US bypassing law to fund 'Israel' despite rights abuses, lawsuit says (Al Mayadeen)
⚡ 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)

Detainees describe the circumstances in the prison facilities as so appalling that they wish the ground would swallow them up rather than undergo the savage treatment. | The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainee Affairs has revealed troubling statements from Gaza captives detained in "Israel's" Ofer Prison. The reports, gathered from inmates Mohammed Jamous, 44, Fadi Ayad, 39, and Fadi Howaydi, 38, depict terrible assault and brutality from the onset of their captivity. ● The Commission's lawyer visited them, and the inmates described the harsh conditions they endured, citing they experienced "real fascism". "We were stripped of our clothes, beaten, tortured, and bound, with our eyes blindfolded," one of the detainees stated. ● The detainees described the Israeli troops as "rabid beasts" who reveled in their misery, emphasizing their hunger, thirst, and the constant pain they were subjected to. They even expressed surprise at their ability to survive under such conditions.

■ US bypassing law to fund 'Israel' despite rights abuses, lawsuit says (Al Mayadeen)
⚡ 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)

Organizers describe how "Israel's" attacks on northern Gaza are some of the most savage and cruel assaults in its history of colonial domination. | The British Palestinian Committee (BPC) and the UK Gaza Community (UKGC) held a press conference in London Thursday, bringing together healthcare professionals and British-Palestinian voices to highlight the scope of "Israel's" deliberate devastation of Gaza amid an imposed media blackout. ● The event, which took place yards from BBC Broadcasting House, emphasized that while mainstream media attention has shifted, the situation in northern Gaza continues to worsen, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians face what the UN calls catastrophic starvation. The ongoing strikes are described as the most savage and cruel assaults in the history of "Israel's" colonial domination of Palestine, according to the organizers.

💬 “We started hearing loudspeakers asking the men in the building to come out naked, then they asked the women and children to come out. They lined up the men, and the soldiers began firing at them randomly,” she expressed. ● She explained how “many were killed, and some were wounded and left to bleed to death. Then they put all the women and children in one room and threw a gas grenade inside. It’s very clear to us that everyone is a target, and the plan is just to kill and kill more.”

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■ Day 434 in Gaza: Israeli Bombardment of Palestinians Continues (IMEMC News)
■ Live blog: Israel continues unabated killing of Palestinians across Gaza (TRT World)
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Israelis breaking the doors demanding the right to rape the Palestinian prisoners in side.

Im not even joking. This is what’s happening. pic.twitter.com/XpR2cFSRUC

— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) July 30, 2024