Detained while fleeing northern Gaza, Saeda al-Shrafi recalls weeks of interrogation, torture, and imprisonment that changed her life, as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is marked
Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by ‘highest levels’ of Israeli leadership
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.
51 percent of the total are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, which is both the highest number and the highest proportion on record since Defense for Children International
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.
By dropping all charges against the soldiers filmed abusing a Palestinian detainee, Israel has abandoned the whole masquerade of accountability.
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.
Israelis cheer two of the five suspects in the gang rape of a detainee, which was captured on video, as they appear in court.
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?