Testimonies from 55 ex-Palestinian detainees reveal that greater than a dozen Israeli jail camps arrange after October 7 are devoted to the abuse of these in custody, a report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem says.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians, together with 21 from the Gaza Strip, who had been held in Israeli prisons, detailing the torture they had been subjected to.
The B’Tselem report, titled Welcome to Hell, revealed on Tuesday that greater than a dozen Israeli jail services have been transformed right into a community of camps “devoted to the abuse of inmates” because the begin of Israel’s conflict on Gaza.
“Such areas, through which each inmate is deliberately condemned to extreme, relentless ache and struggling, function in truth as torture camps,” it mentioned.
The violations embrace “frequent acts of extreme, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate hunger; compelled unhygienic circumstances; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, non secular worship; confiscation of all communal and private belongings; and denial of enough medical therapy”.
B’Tselem mentioned a minimum of 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 7, together with about 48 folks from Gaza.
The report mentioned that detainee testimonies reveal “a systemic, institutional coverage centered on the continuous abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners”.
This coverage, it mentioned, is carried out beneath the course of Minister of Nationwide Safety Itamar Ben-Gvir, with the complete assist of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Given the severity of the acts, the extent to which the provisions of worldwide legislation are being violated, and the truth that these violations are directed on the total inhabitants of Palestinian prisoners each day and over time – the one doable conclusion is that in finishing up these acts, Israel is committing torture that quantities to a conflict crime and even a criminal offense in opposition to humanity,” the report mentioned in its conclusion.
Name for ICC probe
It referred to as on the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) to research “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 mobilized in assist of those torture camps”.
B’Tselem additionally famous that the variety of Palestinians held in Israeli jails has doubled to 9,623 because the conflict on Gaza started.
“We enchantment to all nations and to all worldwide establishments and our bodies to do every little thing of their energy to place an instantaneous finish to the cruelties meted out on Palestinians by Israel’s jail system, and to acknowledge the Israeli regime working this method as an apartheid regime that should come to an finish,” the group concluded.
There was no quick response to the report from the Israeli authorities.
