World Courant
JERUSALEM
Israel’s Sde Teiman jail, a navy set up within the Negev desert in southern Israel, homes hundreds of Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza in the middle of their devastating onslaught since Oct. 7.
For the reason that early days of Israel’s conflict on the enclave, the jail, dubbed “Israel’s Guantanamo Bay, was at all times within the forefront of the information as reviews emerged on the dimensions of torture and violations dedicated towards Palestinian detainees inside the power, which is much from the oversight of rights teams.
In response to Israel’s Military Radio, 10 troopers have been just lately detained for questioning as a part of an investigation into the gang-rape of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza within the jail.
In response, a whole lot of Israeli protesters, together with officers, stormed the jail facility to protest the arrest of the troopers over the incident.
Historical past of abuses
The navy base, which is presently beneath the military’s southern command, was established following an operation by the Jewish Company to carry 49,000 Jews from Yemen to Israel in 1949 and 1950.
Throughout the Israeli wars on Gaza in 2008 and 2014, a whole lot of Palestinians from Gaza have been arrested and despatched to Sde Teiman.
Within the newest Israeli conflict on Gaza, Israel arrested a whole lot of Palestinians and labeled them as “illegal combatants”
In a press release, the Affiliation for Civil Rights in Israel mentioned the detainees are disadvantaged of meals, and after they eat, they achieve this whereas blindfolded and handcuffed.
It added that the jail is crowded and prisoners sleep and defecate whereas blindfolded and handcuffed, whereas there’s additionally no well being care, with many dying in consequence.
There’s additionally no actual variety of Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman.
In mid-July, Israel’s Haaretz each day reported that the Israeli military has been holding the our bodies of 1,500 Palestinians believed to be Hamas gunmen at Sde Teiman since Oct. 7.
Haaretz quoted an Israeli soldier who served at Sde Teiman as saying that the our bodies are held in fridges and labeled as numbers, not based mostly on names.
Petition to shut Sde Teiman
The Affiliation for Civil Rights in Israel together with 5 different rights teams filed a petition in Might earlier than the Israeli Supreme Courtroom to right away shut the jail.
It mentioned in its petition that previously few months, proof had collected of violations on the jail.
Surgical operations have been carried out on the jail facility with out anesthesia, and detainees have been cuffed in ways in which precipitated amputations, the affiliation mentioned.
It famous {that a} discipline hospital was established within the jail however does not supply the minimal well being care wanted for the detainees.
In response to Haaretz, 36 Palestinians have died on the jail since Oct. 7.
Torture testimonies
The Israeli Supreme Courtroom continues to be trying right into a case introduced by Israeli human rights organizations demanding to right away shut Sde Teiman following reviews of torture and killings of Palestinians detained on the middle.
Haaretz quoted one Israeli soldier who was a part of the military’s Pressure 100 that supervises the jail as confirming the unhealthy remedy towards the detainees.
Based mostly on testimonies from just lately launched detainees, they’re topic to quite a few types of torture and inhumane remedy, together with compelled stripping, extended binding and blindfolding, electrocution, systematic hunger and slicing the physique with sharp instruments.
Different reported abuses embody deprivation of sleep, bathing and medical care, canine assaults and publicity to excessive chilly.
Israel, flouting a UN Safety Council decision demanding an instantaneous cease-fire, has confronted worldwide condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 assault by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Over 39,300 Palestinians have since been killed, largely ladies and youngsters, and almost 91,000 injured, in keeping with native well being authorities.
Over 9 months into the Israeli onslaught, huge tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and medication.
Israel is accused of genocide on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, which ordered it to right away halt its navy operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place greater than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the conflict earlier than it was invaded on Might 6.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar
Anadolu Company web site accommodates solely a portion of the information tales provided to subscribers within the AA Information Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized type. Please contact us for subscription choices.
