Human rights organizations have compiled extensive documentation and testimonies revealing widespread abuses inside Israeli prisons and military camps, including torture, starvation, denial of medical care, and various forms of physical and sexual assault.
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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.
Detainees held by Israel since November describe cruel and prolonged interrogation in custody, says Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs.
While female flotilla members were nominally searched by female prison guards, male prison guards had every opportunity to watch. Liedtke recalls a female crew member screaming that they were “touching my breasts!”
Palestinians abused in Israeli prisons are dying in unprecedented numbers due to medical neglect, and their bodies are not being returned to their families
A number of recent reports by reputable human rights agencies and news websites have detailed the prevalence of this horrifying form of torture.
Inside one Palestinian family’s harrowing experience of having their son’s dead body withheld by Israel as a bargaining chip. Israel has held the bodies of 726 Palestinians in refrigerators and the so-called “cemetery of numbers” for decades.
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