The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become “a network of torture camps,” where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine. The report, titled “Welcome to Hell,” collects the testimony of 55 Palestinians who were detained by Israeli authorities since October 7 and later released, almost all without charges. This comes as a group of U.N. experts condemned the widespread torture of Palestinians and as Israel’s Channel 12 News aired shocking footage of Israeli soldiers sexually abusing a prisoner at the Sde Teiman army base, where thousands of detainees from Gaza are held. Sarit Michaeli, the international advocacy lead for B’Tselem, says the abuse in Israeli prisons is “systemic, ongoing and state-sanctioned,” reflecting the cruelty and thirst for revenge among a growing number of Israelis. “They would like to have a completely open field in terms of what they can do to Palestinians,” says Michaeli.

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become “a network of torture camps,” where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine.

The report, titled “Welcome to Hell,” collects the testimony of 55 Palestinians who were detained by Israeli authorities since October 7 and later released, almost all without charges. This comes as a group of U.N. experts condemned the widespread torture of Palestinians and as Israel’s Channel 12 News aired shocking footage of Israeli soldiers sexually abusing a prisoner at the Sde Teiman army base, where thousands of detainees from Gaza are held.

Sarit Michaeli, the international advocacy lead for B’Tselem, says the abuse in Israeli prisons is “systemic, ongoing and state-sanctioned,” reflecting the cruelty and thirst for revenge among a growing number of Israelis. “They would like to have a completely open field in terms of what they can do to Palestinians,” says Michaeli.

You can find the full report of testimonies here

  • barsoapEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Then why did the population of Arabs in the area exponentially grow.

    Because child mortality decreased while birth rates didn’t fall. Natural population growth.

    Why shouldn’t Jews have a colony in Israel anyways? Why only Arabs?

    Jews have always lived in the area as not all Palestinians happened to convert to Christianity and later Islam back in the day.

    Why should random diaspora Jews have a right to settle there, though? Two different ways:

    1. Ask nicely, and if the people already there agree, come on over, or
    2. Terrorise the local population into submission

    Israel is founded on a myth of #1 while actually doing, or at least tolerating, #2. That’s what the Nakhba was.

    Also you have to think once they got their own state or colony or whatever you call it the Irgun ended all that.

    It became state policy.

    Did you ever wonder where the IDF was on the 7th of October? Why it wasn’t at the ready to repel the attack? It was busy backing up settler violence in the West Bank. Or do you want to deny what Israel is doing in the West Bank? The state-sanctioned terror going on there?

    Of course it did. They been terrorizing for hundreds of years.

    No, actually, they didn’t. Jews haven’t terrorised anyone for millennia, that’s a development which started with Zionism, particularly in its right-wing incarnations.

    • Snowflake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      29 days ago
      1. Ask nicely, and if the people already there agree, come on over,

      “No stay where you are in Russia where they are killing and raping you.”

      Nakhba

      You have revisionist context. The nakhba started in 1948. You act like the Palestine Arabs did nothing wrong themselves over the 66 years since the first settlements.

      You leave out stuff like this

      And this

      In 1922 11% of the population was Jew settlers.

      that’s a development which started with Zionism, particularly in its right-wing

      It started after 30 years of being ransacked by the Arabian looters of the area who were doing that for at least 300 years.

      Then you brought up land sales as well. So, this all started because they sold their land to Jews then were mad Jews moved into the land?

      Or do you want to deny what Israel is doing in the West Bank? The state-sanctioned terror going on there?

      People were once saying there was no Hamas in West Bank. There were no supporters there. Then it came out Hamas was indeed there. They should just leave them alone, eh?

      • barsoapEnglish
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        29 days ago

        “No stay where you are in Russia where they are killing and raping you.”

        Why Israel? As far as I can see New York is the real Zion.

        Then it came out Hamas was indeed there. They should just leave them alone, eh?

        What the burned olive trees, cared about for by one Palestinian family for generations, were Hamas?

        • Snowflake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          29 days ago

          You’re worried about olive trees when they kill innocent and kidnap them into torture tunnels? You’re worried about West bank terrorist olive trees? Olive trees are what you’re worried about? While there are still hostages in tunnels you worry about olive trees?

          They should burn every last centuries old as well as sapling olive tree until those people are returned.

          In a video of one protest in the West Bank city of Jenin on the night of July 31, one Palestinian man yelled, “We from the land of Jenin affirm that we are all Hamas,” as he led dozens of people walking through the streets.

          Would you say the olive trees of jenin are Hamas olive trees?

          • barsoapEnglish
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            28 days ago

            One guy yelled that all are Hamas? When the rest didn’t say anything then obviously it must be true because it’s what you like to believe.