An 18-month-old toddler in Gaza was returned by the Israeli army to his family with burn marks and puncture wounds on his legs. Doctors say the wounds are clearly the result of torture while the child was detained with his father.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli detention since December 2024, is in a “dire” health condition, United Nations experts warned as they called for his immediate release.
Genocide does not require mass graves; it also includes efforts to destroy a people’s capacity to bring the next generation into being.
Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against Palestinians meets that definition.
In dozens of cases, the Committee to Protect Journalists documented a recurring set of abuse – from beating to starvation, sexual violence, and medical neglect – of journalists because of their work – a deliberate strategy to silence journalists and destroy their ability to bear witness.
The continued silence from the international community enables this.
Palestinian journalist recounts rape & torture in Israeli prison, describing systematic abuse of detainees. Warning: This article contains detailed descriptions of sexual violence, torture and abuse in detention.
As the Western media was obsessing over any claim of minor suffering of Israeli captives, thousands of Palestinians were subject to systematic round-the-clock abuses.
“Sadistic sexual religious rituals” Israeli Systemic Rape turns abused youth into prison guards who then teach dogs to rape, and use techniques of torture learned from Nazis on innocent Palestinians.
The UN Committee against Torture expressed ‘particular concern’ that the number of Palestinian deaths in custody to date ‘appears to be abnormally high’
The report submitted to the UN notes that detainees received medical treatment while shackled and blindfolded, were forced to use diapers to relieve themselves, and were starved, with ‘an official diet of approximately 1,000 calories daily’
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