The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a report that thousands of Palestinians were forcibly removed from Gaza, sometimes from bomb shelters, and taken to detention centers in Israel, where some were tortured and dozens died.
“The Israel Prison Service is holding more than 9,400 security detainees as of the end of June, some of whom are being held incommunicado without access to lawyers or respect for their legal rights,” he said, noting that “the detainees were taken from Gaza, Israel and the West Bank, and Israel has not provided information on the fate or whereabouts of many, and the International Committee of the Red Cross has been denied access to the facilities where they are being held.”
The report stated that “Israel used dogs, waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks and other forms of torture and ill-treatment against detainees,” indicating that “detainees were held in cage-like facilities, stripped naked for long periods, wearing only diapers, deprived of food, sleep and water, and subjected to electric shocks and cigarette burns.”
The report added that “at least 53 of these detainees died in Israeli detention centers and prisons.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, denounced the “horrific acts against Palestinian detainees,” saying that “the testimonies collected by my office and other entities to a range of horrific acts, such as waterboarding and unleashing dogs on detainees, among others, point to a blatant violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.”
Source: RT + AP
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2024-08-01 02:15:53
