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30 Jul 2024

Israel has detained nine soldiers working at the Sde Teiman detention
camp in the Naqab (Negev) desert, accused of abusing Palestinians held
there.

The base – which has been compared to Guantanamo – has been used as a
facility to house Palestinians rounded up in Gaza and held without
charge. Many are now pointing to the detention of the soldiers as
evidence of the continued abuse of prisoners. Reports from human
rights organisations indicate that at least 13 prisoners have died
from abuse in Israeli prisons — and Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported
that number is as high as 27 — since October 7, when Israel’s current
war on Gaza began.

However, right-wing Israelis – including leading ministers and
politicians – reacted to the arrests of the soldiers on Monday with
anger, and a mob broke through the gates of Sde Teiman in an effort to
free the soldiers. The detained soldiers were taken to another
facility.

Members of a unit known as Force 100 are alleged to have committed
“substantial abuse” towards Palestinian prisoners. Israeli media
outlets reported that one prisoner was taken to hospital after
suffering severe injuries that prevented him from being able to walk.
The “severe injury to the buttocks” could not have been
self-inflicted, medical officials were reported to have said.

Abuse of Palestinian prisoners has previously been reported at Sde
Teiman. One Palestinian journalist held at the base recounted to a
lawyer that he had witnessed the rape of detainees from Gaza.

International news outlets such as CNN and The Associated Press (AP)
have also reported on the conditions at Sde Teiman. CNN’s report,
based on testimony from three Israelis who worked at the base, said
that Palestinians held without charge were blindfolded, beaten, and
held in stress positions. Whistleblowers claimed that some prisoners
even had their limbs amputated after they were so badly injured from
constantly being held in handcuffs.

One worker who spoke to The AP said that most detainees were forced to
wear nappies and not allowed to use the toilet. The same report said
that some of those held at the base appeared to be non-combatants, and
that disease was rife because of the conditions the prisoners were
being held in.

Similar allegations have been reported from prisons holding
Palestinians across Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Reporting from Gaza after the release of prisoners from Ofer prison in
the West Bank earlier in July, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said that
eight former prisoners said they had been tortured, and deprived of
medicine and clothes. Some of the prisoners showed signs of physical
abuse on their bodies.

Another released prisoner, Muhammad Abu Salmiya – the director of
Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital – said that several inmates had died in
interrogation centres, and that prisoners had been beaten.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/30/are-palestinians-being-tortured-in-israeli-prisons

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