After 10 days of detention by Israeli occupation forces, the traces of #torture on the body of Palestinian #prisoner Amir Shuja'iyeh from #Ramallah are evident.
"Regardless of ethics or laws, Israeli medical personnel first and foremost operate as agents of Israel’s settler colonial regime. Under settler colonialism, all aspects of a colonizer’s society serve one purpose — to further the oppression of the colonized people"
"While Israel executes Palestinian patients, their doctors share medical research to help better torture Palestinian detainees"
I am not going to quote from this article the details of the torture meted out to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. However, the fish rots from the head.
"Lawyers and prisoners’ rights groups draw a direct line between the abuse of Palestinians detained within the Israeli prison system and far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees it and handpicked its new acting head Kobi Yaakobi for his tough stance"
“There are multiple reports of extreme #torture and ill treatment. This is the Israeli Guantánamo, with all of the issues connected to forced disappearances.” Tal Steiner from Public Committee Against Torture in #Israel on condition of detention after multiplication of detentions without charge https://stoptorture.org.il/en/
"Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next, as they were all destroyed by the IDF. He has not been back to his home in Jabalya since the start of the war, and last December all trace of him disappeared. Recently, it transpired that he had died in an Israeli jail, apparently due to the torture of beatings during interrogation"
New from Gideon Levy
"The last people to see him were other doctors and detainees who have been released. They told Haaretz correspondents Jack Khoury and Bar Peleg that they had barely recognized him. "It was clear he had been through hell, torture, humiliation, and sleep deprivation. He wasn't the person we knew; he was a shadow of himself." (Haaretz, May 12.)
"A doctor, a hospital ward director, was beaten and tortured to death in an Israeli jail. That did not set off alarms here. Nearly all his physician colleagues, including heads of the medical establishment and those who take part in the horrific torture ongoing at Sde Teiman base and in Israeli prisons, did not say a word. A department director was beaten to death. So what?"
Gideon Levy on the murder of Dr Adnan Al-Bursh
Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners in this camp is torture. There is no excuse.
' [This] rare testimony from Israelis working at the facility sheds further light on Israel’s conduct as it wages war in Gaza, with fresh allegations of mistreatment. It also casts more doubt on the Israeli government’s repeated assertions that it acts in accordance with accepted international practices and law. ' #IsraelGazaWar#HumanRights#WatCrimes#torture#SdeTeiman
Documentation shows the extent of #torture perpetrated by Israeli prison guards on the released #prisoner Adeeb Mustafa Samoudi while in the occupation’s “Gilboa” prison.
Samoudi, who is from #Jenin, spent a total of two years in Israeli prisons with no charges and was released yesterday.
"“We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in the #Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa #hospitals, including of #women and #children, with many reportedly showing signs of #torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said.
‘You say you are a musician, they beat you more’: the Ukrainian sax player who survived Putin’s torture prisons (www.theguardian.com)
Yuriy Merkotan played in a military band and, after being caught up in the Mariupol siege, spent nearly two years in various jails