GENEVA – On Monday, the Euro-Mediterrenen Human Rights Monitor called for an impartial
and urgent investigation into the Israeli Occupation Forces’ torture and murder
of Palestinian civilians detained in different areas of the Gaza Strip.
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According to a statement by the
organization, testimonies gathered by Euro-Med teams confirm reports published
by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper regarding Israeli field executions of Gazan
detainees.
Furthermore, The Sde Teman Israeli
Occupation camp, located between Beersheba and Gaza, has allegedly become a new
Guantánamo-like prison, the Geneva-based human rights group said, where
detainees, including children and the elderly, are held in inhumane conditions.
Euro-Med Monitor cited that the occupation forces use open-air chicken coops to
house the detained and withhold food or drink for long periods.
The detainees are also reported to be
blindfolded and subjected to harsh interrogations with their hands tied. Lights
are turned on and intensely shone upon them at night, to exhaust and torture
them.
Newly released detainees of the Sde
Teman camp state that they endured various forms of torture and mistreatment
there, were not allowed to use phones, and were barred from meeting with
lawyers and from receiving visits from the International Committee of the Red
Cross, according to testimonies gathered by Euro-Med Monitor.
The testimonies also affirm that
multiple elderly prisoners endured cruel beatings and humiliating treatment,
the human rights organization said. The detainees were blindfolded and bound,
with both their hands and feet handcuffed, and if they tried to ask for
anything, they were met with abuse and threats.
One of the released detainees, who
requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, said that he witnessed Israeli
soldiers directly shooting and killing five detainees in separate incidents.
Haaretz reported that two Gazan detainees were killed in the Israeli army camp.
However, unlike in similar cases involving the deaths of prisoners in Israeli
jails, the Israeli army chose not to announce the deaths.
One of the prisoners—a former
employee in Israel—asked for medical treatment before his death, but the army
ignored his request and kept him in appalling conditions, which ultimately
caused his death, according to Haaretz.
Out of 500 detainees arrested during the
ongoing violence, 71 have been brought before Israeli courts, Haaretz noted;
the remaining detainees have been moved to prisons run by the Israeli Prison
Service or to detention facilities run by the Israeli General Security Service
(Shin Bet).
Euro-Med Monitor reported the death
of Palestinian worker Mansour Nabhan Muhammad Warsh on November 3, only 24
hours after his arrest. His body was covered in bruises, which is evidence of
handcuffing, and likely contributed to his fatal heart attack. Another
Palestinian worker Majed Ahmed Zaqul, 32, was proclaimed dead on November 7 in
Israel’s Ofer Prison after being subjected to severe torture. The fate of
hundreds of other Gaza Strip workers remains unknown.
Previously, it documented the
detention of more than 1,200 Palestinian civilians in random Israeli arrest
campaigns in different areas of the Gaza Strip during Israel’s current genocide
there. These arrests occurred after the storming of residential homes and
schools sheltering thousands of displaced people.
Following their release from
detention, occupation forces purposefully left Palestinian prisoners
blindfolded, nearly nude, and kneeling on the ground, after subjecting them to
all forms of beatings and ill-treatment. Furthermore, Euro-Med Monitor stated
that members of the IOF have forced some detainees to carry weapons, so that
they can be filmed to support Israeli campaigns of arrests, torture, severe
beatings, and other abuses, according to testimonies obtained from recently
released detainees.
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 men in an Israeli military truck.
The organization urged the
International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Working Group
on Arbitrary Detention to pressure Israeli occupation authorities to reveal the
fate of all detainees from the Gaza Strip, release every arrested civilian, and
investigate the horrific violations that these detained civilians are being
subjected to.
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