A medic who worked at Sde Teiman’s field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped “of anything that resembles human beings” and that the harassment and torture are done not to “gather intelligence” but “out of revenge” for the October 7 attacks.

Israel has detained thousands of Gaza residents since October, with many of them held under a recently amended law that empowers Israeli authorities to imprison people indefinitely without charge or due process. Human rights organizations have documented Israeli forces’ brutal and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, including women and children.

“A 19-year-old detainee told an Al Mezan lawyer that he was tortured from the moment he was arrested,” the group said. “He described how three of his fingernails were removed with pliers during interrogation. He also stated that investigators unleashed a dog on him and subjected him to shabeh—a form of torture which involves detainees being handcuffed and bound in stress positions for long periods—three times over three days of interrogation. He was then placed in a cell for 70 days, where he experienced starvation and extreme fatigue.”

  • WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Seems like Israel is plowing the lands, cultivating, and sowing the seeds for a perky field of new Hamas converts to fight against. Familiar…

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      6 months ago

      This works in their favour actually. Now they can keep saying: “Look these Muslims are all Hamas, they had no reason to attack us, we didn’t provoke.” Like shit you didn’t provoke. They’re literally the Gestapo holy shit man.