Israel's defence force denies serious allegations of abuse and torture from several Gazan men who say they were detained without charge. WARNING: Readers might find some of the details in this story distressing.
Here’s an article about Israel’s policy of “administrative detention” by which large numbers of Palestinians are held without trial or even charges for an AVERAGE of a year. “Before October 7, the number of Palestinians held by Israel under administrative detention was already at a 20-year high. According to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, there were 1,310 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial at the end of September, including at least 146 minors. Since then, Israel has dramatically increased its use of administrative detention, pushing the number of detainees to over 2,000 within the first four weeks of the war. (That’s out of a total of roughly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners.)” It’s just taking hostages with a less offensive name.
Yesterday Israeli national security minister Ben Gvir made a social media post with a last line that translates to: “The death penalty for terrorists is the right solution to the incarceration problem, until then - glad that the government approved the proposal I brought.” The incarceration problem he’s referring to is a lack of space to hold all the prisoners/hostages Israel is taking, and he’s advocating for executions until more prison cells are built.
Sorry this is a long one, but it’s packed with lots of info about Israeli treatment of prisoners. Tried to keep each point brief.
It’s not a recent development. Here’s a trailer for a 2014 ABC News Australia documentary called Stone Cold Justice - the TL:DR is that for decades IDF have taken and tortured Palestinian youths, coercing them into signing confessions so they can be convicted in court. Here’s the full “Stone Cold Justice: Israel’s torture of Palestinian children” documentary if anyone wishes to watch it.
Josh Paul resigned from a position as a director for the US State Department after war came to Gaza because of his ethics. Here he’s talking about an investigation he directed of the rape of a 13-year-old boy in an Israeli prison as requested by Defense for Children International - Palestine. His department found the allegations to be credible, and when they asked the Israeli government for explanation the IDF raided the DCIP the next day and declared them a terrorist organization (a move condemned by multiple human rights groups, the UN, and 9 EU nations).
Here’s an article about Israel’s policy of “administrative detention” by which large numbers of Palestinians are held without trial or even charges for an AVERAGE of a year. “Before October 7, the number of Palestinians held by Israel under administrative detention was already at a 20-year high. According to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, there were 1,310 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial at the end of September, including at least 146 minors. Since then, Israel has dramatically increased its use of administrative detention, pushing the number of detainees to over 2,000 within the first four weeks of the war. (That’s out of a total of roughly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners.)” It’s just taking hostages with a less offensive name.
Yesterday Israeli national security minister Ben Gvir made a social media post with a last line that translates to: “The death penalty for terrorists is the right solution to the incarceration problem, until then - glad that the government approved the proposal I brought.” The incarceration problem he’s referring to is a lack of space to hold all the prisoners/hostages Israel is taking, and he’s advocating for executions until more prison cells are built.
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