…I don’t.
For starters: this isn’t an isolated case.
Several Palestinian prisoners since returned to Gaza reported to UNWRA and the New York Times that a metal stick was used to inflict injury by penetrating the anus of detainees under interrogation and multiple prisoners reported the use of electric shocks, sometimes being forced to “sit in a chair wired with electricity”The Times of Israel reported “signs of serious abuse, including to his anus”.Tel al-Hawa to the detention camp, he was forced to wear a diaper and placed in a large warehouse-like building with chains hanging from the ceiling. Detainees, also in diapers, were suspended from chains attached to metal handcuffs. Khalili described being chained, electrocuted while wearing a garment and headband connected to wires, and subjected to beatings.
Once he got to the medical facility, Ben said he was astonished by what he saw. Even though this was late December and the place had been operational for more than two months, “patients were still wearing nothing but diapers”. He told us they were still cuffed to their beds and blindfolded at all times, including while receiving medical treatment. They were not allowed to get out of bed, so had to defecate in bed when they needed to relieve themselves.government and military .
According to numerous verified reports , many of the detainees in Sde Teiman were subjected to sexual violence ranging from forced nudity and humiliation to rape ; constant cuffing that led to injuries and in some cases the amputation of limbs; and beatings using batons, metal bars and the butts of guns and boots, sometimes until detainees lost consciousness.
I’ve posted dozens more reports and articles about Palestinians being humiliated, sexually assaulted, beaten and tortured in Israeli detention. This didn’t start after October 7th. It goes back decades .
Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza since hostilities began in October 2023, deported them to detention facilities in Israel, and allegedly tortured and ill-treated them.
Israeli authorities have dramatically increased their use of administrative detention, a form of arbitrary detention, of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank; extended emergency measures that facilitate inhuman and degrading treatment of...
Do you want to guess how many times anyone has been found accountable?
This time they had it on camera . It should have been a slam dunk .
But why do you think the (former) Chief Advocate felt they had to leak the footage? Don’t you think that suggests something important?
These are torture camps . It was captured on video. We only ever saw it because it was leaked. We can see it with our own eyes. And still people look for reasons not to believe.