5/28/2024–|Last updated: 5/28/202408:21 PM (Mecca time)
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted two sources as saying that an Israeli investigation concluded that two Palestinian detainees died in the Sde Teman center in Israel after being beaten.
It stated that the two detainees were brought from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip last March and were alive before they were found dead.
The newspaper added, citing sources in the Israeli army, that two other detainees died suddenly as a result of negligence or insufficient medical treatment in their detention center, noting that a number of Israeli soldiers were interrogated in connection with this, without any of them being arrested.
Last Friday, the British newspaper The Guardian revealed that Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli prison in the Negev Desert are being subjected to systematic torture, causing many of them to suffer serious health complications.
The newspaper said in a report that the hands of detainees in Timan Prison remain shackled all the time, and that at least one of the detainees had his hand amputated due to being constantly shackled.
The Guardian quoted two of those who work in the prison as saying that the prisoners are tied up even inside the hospitals where they are transferred blindfolded, and they are in difficult health conditions and their rights are violated.
The newspaper added that the detention center, which is located about 29 kilometers from Gaza, consists of two parts, the first of which is a fenced area inside which about 200 Palestinians are detained in what resembles cages, and the other area is a field hospital of tents inside which dozens of wounded prisoners and those deprived of painkillers are held. the pain.
Testimonies of brutal torture
Some time ago, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said that it had received new testimonies about Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip – including women and children – being subjected to severe torture and treatment that degrades human dignity, including nudity and sexual harassment or the threat thereof, calling for urgent international action to stop these violations. .
The Observatory explained that its teams received testimonies from a group of detainees released during the past few days, after spending various periods of detention, in which they spoke about their exposure to harsh practices, which included beating them in a “brutal and retaliatory” manner, releasing dogs at them, ghosting them for long hours, and stripping them of their clothes in a manner Completely, depriving them of food and going to the bathroom.
The Observatory indicated that the most dangerous testimonies it received were female detainees being subjected to direct sexual harassment, explaining that a number of female detainees reported that “Israeli soldiers harassed them, including placing their hands on private parts, and forcing them to strip naked and remove their hijab.”
The Observatory added that the soldiers also directed threats of rape and indecent assault to female detainees, men and their families, as part of a process of torture and blackmail to force them to provide information about others.
The Observatory said that the report published by the Israeli media about the detention center where Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are held “indicates its recognition of systematic torture and its disregard for human rights conventions that criminalize torture.”