Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include a nurse deprived of natural light since January, and a teenager held for nine months
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
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‘The Silence after the Screams’: How Western Media Helped Justify the Rape of Palestinians
Western media amplified Israel’s unverified claims of Hamas “mass rape” while downplaying documented Israeli sexual crimes against Palestinians.
Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society
There’s outrage in Israel over the leaked video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner. However, the outrage isn’t about the rape itself but the fact that the video was leaked in the first place.
Israel launches ‘most violent’ strikes on Gaza since 7 October – War on Gaza Day 709
Israeli forces kill at least 53 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 3 aid seekers; 425 starved to death; chaos in Gaza City; Palestinian prisoner released in critical condition; Hamas can’t be defeated by destroying Gaza City; Ben Gvir’s latest illegal idea; flotilla update; more
41 percent of Palestinian child detainees have no charges
Under international law, including Article 37(d) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, every child has the right to prompt access to legal assistance and to challenge the legality of their detention before a court. Israel consistently deprives Palestinian kids of this right.
Israeli captives will eat when Gazans eat – War on Gaza Day 667
Israel kills 92, incl 56 aid seekers; 6 die of starvation; 22K aid trucks wait to enter Gaza; no special treatment for Israeli captives; another Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison; Ben Gvir leads settler raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque; Mike Johnson prays at Western Wall; 300K march in Sydney for Gaza
Israel allows a bit of flour, denies doctors entry into Gaza; 16,500 children confirmed killed – War on Gaza Day 594
Israel killed 104 Gazans in the last 24 hours, 629 in the last week; food trickles in, some bakeries reopen; Israeli plan to ‘steal humanitarian aid’; US/Israeli new “plan” for food distribution demonstrates incompetence; more Israeli attacks on healthcare; Netanyahu’s latest unhinged statement; much more.
The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”
Although Edan Alexander was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described him as a prisoner of war.
‘Tortured, starved, and even killed’: How Israeli forces have accelerated arrest campaigns against Palestinian children since genocide began
Since October 7, 2023, the treatment of Palestinian minors in Israeli prisons has reached new extremes, with children facing more suffering than ever before
Inside Israel’s ‘torture’ jails where Palestinians held without charge tell of brutal treatment
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.