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Date: June 09, 2024 at 05:49:46
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Israel’s use of rape against Palestinian detainees from Gaza exposed |
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A shocking three-month investigation by the New York
Times has revealed gruesome details of abuse, torture
and mistreatment of Palestinians held at Israel’s Sde
Teiman detention facility.
A shocking three-month investigation by the New York
Times has revealed gruesome details of abuse, torture
and mistreatment of Palestinians held at Israel’s Sde
Teiman detention facility. The exposé, based on
interviews with former detainees, Israeli military
officers, doctors and soldiers who served at the site,
paints a harrowing picture of the conditions endured by
the roughly 4,000 Palestinian detainees who have passed
through the facility since 7 October.
Sde Teiman, an army base in southern Israel, has become
a makeshift interrogation site where most Gazans
captured by the occupation army have been brought for
initial questioning. Detainees, classified as “unlawful
combatants” under Israeli legislation, can be held for
up to 75 days without judicial permission and 90 days
without access to a lawyer or a trial. Their location is
withheld from rights groups and even the International
Committee of the Red Cross, in what legal experts say
contravenes international law.
Read: Israel to transfer detainees from Gaza to military
detention centres in West Bank
Former detainees described a litany of abuses at the
hands of their captors, including beatings, electric
shocks, humiliating treatment and rape. Eight former
detainees, whose detention at the site has been
confirmed by the military, reported being punched,
kicked, and beaten with batons, rifle butts, and a hand-
held metal detector while in custody.
Two detainees said their ribs were broken as a result of
the assaults, with one claiming he was kneed in the
chest and another stating he was kicked and beaten with
a rifle. Seven detainees said they were forced to wear
only a diaper during interrogations, and three claimed
to have received electric shocks.
The Times’ investigation also uncovered allegations of
sexual abuse and torture. Muhammad Al-Hamlawi, a 39-
year-old senior nurse, recounted a horrific ordeal in
which a female officer ordered two soldiers to lift him
up and press his rectum against a metal stick fixed to
the ground. The stick penetrated his rectum for roughly
five seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him in
“unbearable pain.”
Read: Israeli soldiers accused of raping Palestinian
women and children
A leaked draft of a report by UNRWA, the main UN agency
for Palestinians, cited similar accounts, including one
detainee who said interrogators “made me sit on
something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire.”
Another detainee according to the UN “died after they
put the electric stick up” his anus.
Detainees described the dehumanising conditions they
were subjected to, including being blindfolded,
handcuffed and stripped naked except for their
underwear. They were crammed into military trucks and
driven to Sde Teiman, where they were held in open-sided
hangars, forced to sit handcuffed in silence on mats for
up to 18 hours a day. Exhausted detainees who fell
asleep were summoned by officers and beaten as
punishment.
The interrogation process itself was a nightmarish
ordeal. Detainees were brought to a separate enclosure
they dubbed the “disco room,” where extremely loud music
was played to prevent them from sleeping – a form of
torture that caused one detainee’s ear to bleed. Wearing
nothing but a diaper, they were questioned and accused
of being members of Hamas, then beaten when they denied
any connection to the group.
The Israeli military has denied allegations of
“systematic abuse” at Sde Teiman, claiming that any
abuse of detainees is strictly prohibited and thoroughly
investigated. However, the sheer number of consistent
accounts from former detainees, coupled with the
testimony of Israeli personnel at the site, suggests a
disturbing pattern of mistreatment and torture.
Perhaps most disturbingly, of the 4,000 detainees held
at Sde Teiman since October, 35 have died either at the
site or after being brought to nearby civilian
hospitals.
The revelations of the Sde Teiman detention facility
have attracted growing scrutiny from the media. In May,
CNN exposed gruesome details of abuse, torture and
mistreatment of Palestinians in Sde Teiman. Israel’s
Supreme Court has also begun hearing a petition from
rights groups to close the site. As a result, Israel has
begun moving Palestinians held in Sde Teiman to
military-run prisons in the occupied West Bank.
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Date: June 09, 2024 at 17:14:20
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: VTforeign: Blogs/unverified/no fact cks/sketchy |
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from their about page:
VT is NOT News. It is a blog about Foreign Policy
issues with opinions and comments from writers and
readers…it’s an international online community
discussing the issues.
We are proudly 100% USA-owned and operated. Period!
The Owner
VT is managed by Chief Justin Time. (LOL)
and this disclaimer:
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fully independent international writers, VT cannot
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full responsibility of the article author and NOT VT.
Caution advised--unvalidated information.
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Date: June 09, 2024 at 05:55:10
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Israeli soldiers accused of raping Palestinian women and children |
URL: link |
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Credible reports have emerged of Israeli soldiers raping
and sexually abusing Palestinian women and children. UN
experts found credible cases of rape and sexual assault
in Israeli prisons, and women who were threatened by
sexual violence and rape. Many Palestinian women reported
that they had been humiliated, stripped naked, and
assaulted at an Israeli checkpoint that had been
established between the north and the south of Gaza.
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Date: June 09, 2024 at 17:17:10
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Israeli soldiers accused of raping Palestinian women and children |
URL: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/middle-east-monitor/ |
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Since Akira doesn't like mixed/medium credibility
sources:
"Overall, we rate the Middle East Monitor Left Biased
based on story selection that favors the left and Mixed
for factual reporting due to the use of poor sources
who are questionable at times.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Organization/Foundation
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY"
Same as Daily Express she objected to
...failed fact cks listed at link
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