Al Mezan Heart for Human Rights says 2,650 Palestinians taken from Gaza since October stay in Israeli custody.
Palestinian detainees are enduring extreme physical and psychological torture in Israeli amenities, the Al Mezan Heart for Human Rights has mentioned, calling for accountability for the abuses.
The prisoners “have been uncovered bare to the scorching solar whereas standing on sharp gravel stones, subjected to verbal abuse, and threatened with rape, demise, and bombing, together with threats in opposition to their households”, it mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
The rights group mentioned that latest testimony and proof “reveal a degree of violence that resounds with the atrocities documented in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib”, referring to the United States-run detention facility in Cuba and the jail in Iraq the place US troopers abused detainees.
Al Mezan mentioned that the detainees have additionally been “disadvantaged of meals, water, sleep, and entry to sanitation for prolonged durations, all whereas dealing with extraordinarily harsh dwelling circumstances”.
The group estimated a minimum of 2,650 Palestinians taken from the Gaza Strip after October 7 stay in Israeli custody, together with 12 youngsters and two ladies.
Amongst them, roughly 300 are dealing with trials, whereas 2,350 are categorized as “illegal combatants” with no outlined detention interval or particular fees.
Al Mezan mentioned the torture has resulted in a number of deaths however there was no definitive document of the entire variety of Palestinians who’ve died in Israeli custody.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Membership disclosed the complete identities of twenty-two Palestinians who died because of torture or medical negligence.
“The concentrating on of Palestinian residents of Gaza seems to be a part of a broader sample of abuse, per the crime of genocide,” in keeping with Al Mezan.
The findings echo reviews by the United Nations and different rights teams who’ve denounced the widespread abuse.
Footage just lately broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 make clear the sexual abuse inflicted on Palestinian detainees, drawing worldwide condemnation and confirming quite a few witness accounts.
The Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report final month detailing how Palestinians imprisoned for the reason that October 7 Hamas-led assaults on Israel that triggered the present battle had confronted torture and mistreatment.
“Some detainees mentioned canine have been launched on them, and others mentioned they have been subjected to waterboarding, or that their arms have been tied they usually have been suspended from the ceiling. Some men and women additionally spoke of sexual and gender-based violence,” the report mentioned.
In a report titled Welcome to Hell, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem offered testimonies from 55 Palestinians, together with 21 from the Gaza Strip, who had been held in Israeli prisons.
The violations they recounted included “frequent acts of extreme, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate hunger; compelled unhygienic circumstances; sleep deprivation”.
B’Tselem mentioned a minimum of 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 7, together with about 48 individuals from Gaza.
It known as on the Worldwide Legal Courtroom to analyze “people suspected of planning, directing and committing these crimes”, saying the probe was not doable inside Israel “since all state methods, together with the judiciary, have been mobilised in help of those torture camps”.