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.”

■ Israeli Forces Shoot a Palestinian Child Near Jenin (IMEMC News)
■ Day 434 in Gaza: Israeli Bombardment of Palestinians Continues (IMEMC News)
■ Live blog: Israel continues unabated killing of Palestinians across Gaza (TRT World)
✅ ‘Greater Israel’: With Assad out of picture, Israel moves to grab more Syrian land (Maryam Qarehgozlou)

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

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.