"Twenty-seven Palestinians captured by Israel from the Gaza Strip died in Israeli military facilities during their detention since last October, according to a report published in an Israeli newspaper Thursday.
The detainees lost their lives at the Sde Teiman and Anatot facilities or while being questioned by Israeli investigators, the Israeli daily Haaretz said.
No details were provided by the Israeli army about the death of the Israeli detainees, only saying that some suffered from prior health conditions or were wounded during the Gaza conflict.
The Israeli army said an investigation has been launched by the Investigative Military Police into the deaths, without providing details.
Several Palestinians released by Israel have testified about being beaten and abused by Israeli soldiers during questioning.
Pictures of released detainees showed bruises and marks on their wrists from prolonged handcuffing, Haaretz said.
According to a report by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) published by The New York Times on Tuesday, Palestinian detainees released to Gaza testified that they were beaten, robbed, stripped, sexually assaulted and prevented access to doctors and lawyers.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounced the deaths of Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody as a "horrific crime.”
"This crime is part of the atrocities and war of extermination by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” the ministry said in a statement.
It called on the international community to intervene "to protect the Palestinian people against the systematic and widespread crimes of the occupation, especially in Gaza.”
"The crimes of the Israeli occupation must not go unpunished, and justice must be served to the Palestinian victims,” the ministry said.
Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 killing more than 30,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring over 72,000 others amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities."
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ReplyDeleteThis shifts blame off the Netanyahu government. "The people wouldn't let the aid trucks in."
At the edge of Gaza, Israelis try to stop aid trucks
Angry Israelis cut across a field of stubble to try to get around a police blockade to disrupt shipments of food and supplies intended for Gaza.
For weeks Israeli border officers allowed protesters to disrupt the critical aid convoys at Kerem Shalom, the country’s sole functioning border crossing with Gaza. But at the end of last month, with international pressure and condemnation mounting, authorities announced they were moving additional officers to the crossing to take back control. But even with the area now declared a closed military zone, protesters continue to arrive and try to outmaneuver the police.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-israelis-aid-trucks-protests/index.html
‘Israel’ Pressured UNRWA Employees to Make False Statements on Hamas Links: Agency (Torture confessions)
Israeli occupation forced employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the UNRWA said.
The assertions were contained in a report by the UN agency reviewed by Reuters and dated February 2024 which detailed testimonies of mistreatment in Israeli detention made by Palestinians, including several working for UNRWA.
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2061523