Because probes of war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers are virtually nonexistent in Israel, where “all state systems, including the judiciary, have been mobilized in support of these torture camps,” B’Tselem calls on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate individuals suspected of planning, directing and committing these crimes. “We appeal to all nations and to all international institutions and bodies to do everything in their power to put an immediate end to the cruelties meted out on Palestinians by Israel’s prison system, and to recognize the Israeli regime operating this system as an apartheid regime that must come to an end,” the report concludes.
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UN Report Details Vast, Systemic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention
Israeli forces are arbitrarily imprisoning at least 9,400 Palestinians, including children, the UN found.
By Sharon Zhang , TruthoutJuly 31, 2024
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir recently confirmed that conditions inside Israeli prisons “have indeed worsened,” adding, “I am proud of that.”
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has also called on the United Nations to carry out an international investigation into the “systematic torture of Palestinian detainees” who are held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.
One primary perpetrator is Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the prison system. Under Ben-Gvir’s direction, the report notes, “torturing Palestinians has become an integral part of Israel’s detention system.” Ben-Gvir himself has made no secret of these cruelties. He recently confirmed that conditions inside Israeli prisons “have indeed worsened,” adding, “I am proud of that.” Dismissing basic rights as “perks” for Palestinian detainees, he boasted that he “dramatically reduced” shower time and introduced a “minimal menu” for Palestinian prisoners. Ben-Gvir reportedly takes special sadistic pleasure in watching Palestinian prisoners being tortured. “We are live-streaming it for Ben-Gvir,” one soldier recalled. Ben-Gvir also supports a bill to execute Palestinian prisoners to solve overcrowding, stating, “They should be killed with a shot to the head, and the bill to execute Palestinian prisoners must be passed in the third reading in the Knesset.”
Israel holds nearly 10,000 Palestinian prisoners. These include some 1,500 hostages who have been kidnapped from Gaza since October and detained without charge or trial. Many of the captives are languishing in the Sde Teiman concentration camp, which was built in the Negev desert for Palestinian detainees from Gaza. Palestinian prisoners and legal observers have compared Sde Teiman to notorious torture camps like Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
“It’s more horrific than Abu Ghraib,” Palestinian lawyer Khaled Mahajneh, who had access to the camp, told Israel-based +972 Magazine in June. He continued:
I have been in this profession for 15 years…. I never expected to hear about rape of prisoners or humiliations like that. And all this is not for the purpose of interrogation — since most prisoners are only interrogated after many days of detention — but as an act of revenge. To take revenge on whom? They are all citizens [civilians], young people, adults, and children.
Mahajneh recounted to Al Jazeera that Israeli soldiers gang-raped six Palestinian prisoners in front of the other prisoners at Sde Teiman.
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