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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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[-] Bell@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago

Do you want to make terrorists? Because this is how you make desperate people feel like their only option is to become terrorists.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 year ago

This seems to be precisely what Netenyahu has in mind, unfortunately.

[-] amanda@aggregatet.org 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

The irony of calling them terrorists instead of freedom fighters.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Netanyahu saw the Bush admin create the Iraqi insurgency and said, "hold my beer".

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Palestinian joker is watching thier Mom and sisters treated like this.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

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

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

Every time I think Israel can't do worse... it gets worse.

Also this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/israel-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-starve-2m-people-comments

Israel went to great lengths to remind people of the Holocaust and caution against Antisemitism but looks like they forgot themselves.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 71 points 1 year ago

Anyone who is against RAPE is ANTISEMITIC!

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago

Well fuck, guess I'm antisemitic then......

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

And that's another layer of fucked up to calling all critics antisemitic. It can normalise actual antisemitism when it bubbles up.

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 59 points 1 year ago

the most moral army strikes again, fucking ghouls

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago
[-] febra@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Anyone else nazi this ending well?

[-] unrigged6112@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago

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. >.<

[-] PoisonTheWell@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Shut the fuck up

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] tostos@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Isis bornt from Abu Ghraib

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 year ago

Free palestine bro ✊🇵🇸

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[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This has been reported by B'Tselem an Israeli human rights organization https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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!

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