A special investigation by The Independent’s chief international correspondents reveals allegations of brutal treatment of Palestinians in Israeli facilities including rape, torture, medical neglect and death. Israel rejects all accusations of wrongdoing.
Freed Palestinian prisoners recount how Israeli jailers ‘treated them like animals’ and ‘brutally tortured’ some to death.
Like the Biden administration, Trump is claiming an “emergency” in order to bypass Congress to get approved a new $3 billion weapons package for Israel. [UPDATE: Now $4 billion]
Palestinian civilians and healthcare workers recount the horrifying reality and systemic torture going on within Israeli prisons.
An Israeli doctor exposes the dehumanization and mistreatment of Palestinian patients, stemming from the belief that medical care is a privilege, not a basic human right – and directly contradicting the Hippocratic Oath.
Two articles on new testimony of Israel’s use of torture and other horrific forms of abuse against Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society has noted severe forms of torture and abuse by Israeli prison guards. There are currently over 10,400 Palestinians imprisoned, with at least 3,376 detained in administrative detention.
Life hangs by a thread in Gaza, as Israel drops bombs, withholds polio vaccines, tortures Palestinian prisoners; illegal Israeli settlers, Israeli gov’t threaten Palestinians in West Bank, East Jerusalem; in the US: silencing pro-Palestine voices on social media, at DNC convention; Blinken is “selling a bridge to nowhere”; more.
CNN spoke to Israeli whistleblowers who worked at a desert camp that holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. They describe a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot…