GENEVA — On Sunday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Monitor
New revealed testimonies regarding the systematic torture
and inhumane treatment inflicted upon Palestinian detainees in Israeli
Occupation camps—some of whom have forcibly disappeared from the Gaza
Strip—have been received by Euro-Med Monitor.
اضافة اعلان
According to testimonies received by
Euro-Med Monitor from
newly-released individuals who spent several days in Israeli custody, the
Israeli occupation army and Shin Bet investigators have treated the Palestinian
detainees like "non-human animals."
The majority of the horrific torture operations, as per the
testimonies, commence as soon as individuals are taken from their homes or
asylum centers, where many
Gazans seek shelter from the ongoing Israeli
attacks.
Occupation officers beat the detained individuals, strip
them naked (except for their undergarments), and force them to sit on their
knees in the street for hours while being harassed and treated with contempt.
Multiple freed prisoners stated that after being made to
curse themselves and disparage Palestinian groups and political figures, they
were violently transferred in trucks to
open-air detention facilities, where
they endured brutal beatings and other forms of mistreatment.
According to a released prisoner who insisted on anonymity
due to safety concerns, the majority of inmates are held in Israeli army camps
rather than by the Israeli Prison Administration.
Consequently, they are not held under legal detention
circumstances. He added that once they are transferred, detainees are forced to
remain inside iron cages despite the very cold weather. Detainees frequently
endure severe beatings all over their bodies, electric shock torture,
purposeful burning with cigarette butts, being tied up by the hands and feet in
different positions, and "ghost" operations, referring to the
suspension of inmates by their hands and feet.
Euro-Med Monitor reported that the Sde Teman occupation army
camp, located between Beersheba and Gaza, has been turned into a
Guantánamo-like prison. There, detainees are held in harsh conditions akin to
open-air chicken cages, without access to food or drink for long periods, while
being prevented from meeting with lawyers or receiving Red Cross visits.
The Euro-Med Monitor team highlighted testimonies it
received about the deaths of two detainees inside the Sde Teman camp, one of
whom had an amputated foot; Israel has not officially announced their deaths.
The human rights organization also documented the arrest of elderly men and
women, including an 80-year-old woman, as well as men over the age of 70.
75-year-old Jihad Zaqout told Euro-Med Monitor’s team that
on December 12, 2023, Israeli forces took him into custody from his Gaza City
home. After beating, kicking, and tying him up with iron baskets, the soldiers
used him as a human shield by putting him in a home in a neighborhood where
military activity was taking place.
Zakout reported that while he was being transported in a
truck along with other Palestinian prisoners, Israeli soldiers continually beat
them on their heads with rifle butts. Upon reaching an army camp housing
hundreds of prisoners, Zakout and his fellow detainees were forced to sleep on
the ground without a mattress and were only permitted to use the restroom once
every two or three days. Detainees were also beaten and denied access to
medical treatment.
Euro-Med Monitor reported on November 3, 2023, the death of
worker Mansour Nabhan Muhammad Warsh, only 24 hours after his arrest by Israeli
forces. His body was covered in bruises and evidence of handcuffing, which
likely contributed to his death by a heart attack.
Just four days later, on November 7, 2023, Euro-Med Monitor
documented the death of 32-year-old detained worker Majed Ahmed Zaqoul, who was
proclaimed dead in Israel’s Ofer prison after being subjected to severe
torture. The fate of hundreds of other Gaza Strip workers remains unknown.
The Euro-Med Monitor field teams previously documented the
detention of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in random Israeli arrest
campaigns in different areas of the Gaza Strip, following Israeli forces’
storming of residential homes and schools sheltering thousands of displaced
people. These random arrest campaigns have targeted doctors, nurses,
journalists, and elderly people, including dozens of women, such as Hadeel
Youssef Issa Al-Dahdouh.
In an inhumane scene, Dahdouh appears in a photo alongside a
group of naked male detainees in an Israeli military truck.
Euro-Med Monitor called on Israel to immediately reveal the
names, whereabouts, and fate of all forcibly disappeared detainees and to
immediately stop its policy of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian
detainees. The Geneva-based rights group called on the International Committee
of the Red Cross to bear its responsibilities and verify the detention
conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
Euro-Med Monitor also called on the Special Rapporteur on
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to open an impartial and urgent
investigation. This investigation is needed, it said, to probe the Israeli
occupation army’s liquidation of Palestinian civilians after their arrest in
different areas of the Gaza Strip and to hold those responsible accountable and
provide justice to the survivors as well as the families of victims.
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