10/21/2024–|Last updated: 10/21/202411:31 PM (Mecca time)
The Axios website quoted American and Israeli officials on Monday as saying that the US State Department is investigating violations by the Israeli army against detainees from the Gaza Strip, while the Walla website said that the investigation may lead to placing the military unit responsible for the violations on a blacklist.
Citing its sources, Axios explained that the United States has begun a review of an Israeli army unit that may have repercussions on American aid provided to Israel.
The officials added to the website that the Washington Embassy in Jerusalem handed the US administration a list of questions regarding violations by the Israeli army, while the Israeli Walla website said that the investigation would prevent the military unit responsible for the violations from receiving American aid, equipment, or training.
While no results have been reached yet, the review focuses on the “Force 100” of the occupation army, which is responsible for guarding prisoners and detainees from Gaza, but a number of members of the unit are currently being tried in Israel on charges of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, according to what was reported by Reuters. About the American site.
At the beginning of last August, an Israeli military court extended the detention of 5 soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teman camp in the Negev desert, where prisoners from Gaza have been held since the beginning of the war.
Israeli media said at the time that the prisoner was tortured and sexually assaulted by soldiers who tried to hide their faces because they knew that there were surveillance cameras, before the Israeli military spokesman announced that the accused soldiers would be transferred to home detention.
Israeli Channel 14 also revealed that an agreement had been reached to release the soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teman camp, and imprisoning them in their homes.
It was reported that the investigation took place without any indictment being brought against the soldiers, in a move that Israeli human rights organizations describe as an approach that enables soldiers and army commanders to escape punishment, according to human rights reports.
Palestinian sources and human rights reports reported that the occupation imposed severe restrictions on Gaza prisoners and committed the crime of enforced disappearance against them, as their families do not know any information about them, whether those arrested from homes or shelter centers, or those detained at the military checkpoint that separates the Gaza Strip into two parts.
According to Palestinian human rights organizations, the occupation recently admitted that it arrested at least 4,000 citizens from Gaza, 1,500 of whom were released, noting that the occupation arrested hundreds of Gaza workers in the West Bank, in addition to citizens from Gaza who were in the West Bank for the purpose of treatment.
This comes as the occupation army continues its war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic and a worsening famine looming over the besieged Strip.
