Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner
Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner
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,” collect...
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
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Meanwhile, we've got "stop being antisemitic" trolls casting doubt among the uninformed.
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I find it more bizarre that most of the world leaders are turning a blind eye to it all and keep the bullshit up with “right to defend themselves”.
Nothing of this has anything to do with defending.
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Since october 7th, the US has sent Israel 39 F-35s, the most advanced aircraft in the world. This brings Israels count of F-35s (again, the most advanced aircraft in the world) to 50. Meanwhile, Ukraine has been begging us for F-16s, an outdated aircraft that the US Military has relegated to National Guard service and plans to retire in 2025. The Netherlands and Denmark have been who has donated all of the F-16s Ukraine is receiving.
I want to point out, literal days after Ukraine received the F-16s, they launched a counter invasion and captured Kursk. This is something that could have been much more impactful back when Ukraine started asking for the F-16s (which I want to make sure everyone remembers is a fighter platform from the 1970s that we are retiring in a few months). I don't even know... What I want people to do with this information. I just want people to sit with it and draw their own conclusions about America's priorities, and what it means to ask for and receive aid from the US.
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I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but I am very disturbed at AIPAC and similar organizations spending millions in local primaries to unseat candidates that are vocally pro Palestine. Cori Bush and others in the "squad" dare to speak against them and are actively being replaced by big money.
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Do you want to make terrorists? Because this is how you make desperate people feel like their only option is to become terrorists.
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This seems to be precisely what Netenyahu has in mind, unfortunately.
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I’m pretty sure he does, yeah. He needs a bloody conflict to go on to remain in power (and possibly out of prison). Scared people are easier to rule, and terrorism is scary.
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The irony of calling them terrorists instead of freedom fighters.
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Netanyahu saw the Bush admin create the Iraqi insurgency and said, "hold my beer".
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Palestinian joker is watching thier Mom and sisters treated like this.
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This is what Westerners love to say, but from the Israeli (or, say, Azeri and Turkish) viewpoint they've already outraged all the potential "terrorists" long ago and there's nobody else who can oppose them but doesn't do that yet. That is, they feel impunity. And they are right if a Westerner reading this says something like
Do you want to make terrorists? Because this is how you make desperate people feel like their only option is to become terrorists.
, not even bothering to send something poisonous in an envelope to an Israeli embassy, even such a little action.
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My lord. Listening to those testimonies.
This is horrible. Evil. The Palestinian people deserve so much better than this.
The page with the full report: https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/welcome-hell-israeli-prison-system-network-torture-camps-enarhe
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Absolutely, they are long overdue for basic human rights and civil rights.
Thanks for the link to the full report, I just added it to the description to help promote awareness
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Every time I think Israel can't do worse... it gets worse.
Israel went to great lengths to remind people of the Holocaust and caution against Antisemitism but looks like they forgot themselves.
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Anyone who is against RAPE is ANTISEMITIC!
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Yes, this is the quite likely position of the Israeli government. After all, they are looking for the person who published the video of the crime - not as a witness against the criminals, but because that person exposed them.
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Well fuck, guess I'm antisemitic then......
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And that's another layer of fucked up to calling all critics antisemitic. It can normalise actual antisemitism when it bubbles up.
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the most moral army strikes again, fucking ghouls
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They have been running concentration and labor camps since 1948
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-little-known-concentration-and-labor-camps-1948-1955/
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Meanwhile their politicians are freeing these rapists, and discussing in the Knesset (basically their parliament) if rape is an appropriate punishment. Their TV channels are discussing the same thing publicly, and bringing IDF soldiers on the shows to defend raping prisoners. I don't understand how a society can become so disgustingly genocidal. Nazi shit.
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They will of course find it not to be rape as according to Israeli law, only a citizen is capable of being raped. Captured Palestinians are not citizens.
And it is ridiculous how many people on social media somehow think this makes everything okay.
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It probably happened. If you've shown the whole world that you bomb refugee camps and international food relief convoys, then you don't get "the benefit of the doubt" anymore.
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Anyone else nazi this ending well?
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Israel just improved on the things the nazis did to them in ww2. What they learned from the ghetto in warsaw they used in Gaza
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Israel just improved on the things the nazis did to them in ww2.
Not quite yet. Nazis did extremely worse. But they are surely on their way getting there. >.<
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It's time to hold Netanyahu accountable for his atrocities. If the U.S. refuses to participate in ICC proceedings, we should at least discontinue our abusive, manipulative, toxic relationahip with Israel.
Israel has a rich legacy of treating their neighbors like absolute shit while using the U.S. as their personal weapon. They should defend themselves from the neighbors they have mistreated for the last several decades. It's time for them to grow up and be responsible for their own actions.
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Isis bornt from Abu Ghraib
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I'm glad it's being documented, but we all pretty much expected this, right? These are the same guys that use injured Palestinians as hood ornaments in public. They get in trouble for that then, but in private, who knows what you can get away with?
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Free palestine bro ✊🇵🇸
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Further evidence that time is a flat circle
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https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/8/welcome_to_hell_btselem_israel_torture
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This has been reported by B'Tselem an Israeli human rights organization https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell
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Do me next! But let's use the smooth stick 🍡🏒 with no spikes okay 👍😜 and do it gently and slowly. I brought my own ky....how much is this service again? Oh it's free? WOW!
Oh wait, hold on! Hold on, I'm a little sore now. I'm thinking I gotta go home now. But can I come back next weekend? Please 🥺??? ...oh I can't leave? I won't say anything I swear!