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’
Another report uses the word “genocide”; in Tubas, West Bank, major Israeli escalation; torture of Palestinian prisoners has increased; Trump targets ICC judge
Israel and the United States have come under fire after voting against a United Nations resolution reaffirming the absolute prohibition of torture.
Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this ‘ceasefire’ deal?
The report concluded that the treatment inflicted by IOF, intelligence services, and Israel Prison Service employees not only meets the elements of torture under international law, but also rises to the level of genocide