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INDEPENDENT NEWS: Western-sponsored Israel humiliates Palestinian prisoners from Gaza by torturing them in front of settlers: Rights body.

An independent Geneva-based human rights organization says Israeli forces allow settlers to watch the torture and humiliation of Palestinians who have been abducted from the Gaza Strip during the regime’s ongoing genocidal war.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor revealed the information on Monday, citing shocking testimonies by recently released Palestinians.

According to Euro-Med, the development took place at the Zikim military base used as a public forum to the north of Gaza’s border with the occupied territories and the Negev prison to the south of the besieged Palestinian territory.

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Released Palestinian abductees told Euro-Med that groups of settlers were brought into those detention centers on many occasions. They were allowed to watch and even film and take pictures of the prisoners who were being subjected to various types of inhumane and degrading treatment.

Instances of ill-treatment of Gazan abductees ranged from being forced to appear naked before the settlers to being beaten with metal batons and electric sticks and showered with hot water.

‘I was subjected to torture and abuse at all stages. The arrest lasted for about 52 days,’ 43-year-old Gazan Omar Abu Mudallala told Euro-Med, pointing out that Israeli troops brought settlers to watch ‘our nude torture.’

Upon bringing in the settlers, the Israeli forces would claim the prisoners were the same Palestinian fighters, who staged Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the occupied territories on October 7, 2023, following which the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza, the rights body said.

‘The settlers were filming us on their mobile phones while we were subjected to beating, abuse, and torture. They were making fun of us,’ Abu Mudallala said.

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‘This happened five times while I was being held. The first time was in Barkasat Zikim, where we were blindfolded. The other four incidents took place in the Negev detention facility, where successive Israeli groups were taken inside tents to witness our abuse and record the torture methods we were subjected to without allowing us to speak or interact with them. Since we were not wearing blindfolds at the time, I saw them all four times with my own eyes,’ he noted.

Euro-Med Monitor said in its report that it was taken aback by the evident falseness of the Israeli army’s claim that the Palestinian civilians subjected to torture in the presence of Israeli settlers were fighters involved in the October 7 operation.

It added, ‘…the subsequent release of the detainees serves as proof that this narrative is untrue and was intended as a means of exacting revenge on Palestinian civilians and attacking their dignity.’

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‘The Washinton-backed and financed Israeli army’s torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees is illegal under the Rome Statute and constitutes crimes against humanity,’ the Euro-Med said.

It added that staging of these abuses as entertainment for Israeli settlers ‘and subsequent photography of the victims amounts to a grave violation of the dignity of these individuals, as well as the commission of war crimes.’

Palestinians from Khan Younis kept by Israeli troops and released in Rafah after weeks have recounted their suffering due to inhuman treatment and abuse at the hands of the regime’s jailers.

The Palestinians displayed their injuries at a hospital in Rafah on Thursday. They suffered as a result of beatings by the Israeli forces. The Palestinians were held without any charge. Arbitrary detention is used by Israel as a tool to persecute the Palestinians.

Khaled al-Nabrisse, 48, a resident of southern Khan Younis, was hit in the neck. He was wearing a neck brace. Palestinians have been ‘tortured relentlessly,’ he said. ‘During the first 72 hours, drinking, eating or using the restroom was banned, and we were handcuffed and blindfolded.’

‘The situation was really tough and we suffered torture like we never saw before.’ Nabrisse said the regime’s troops also used dogs to intimidate them.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said the released Palestinians included Mohammed al-Ran, head of the surgery department at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. Ran was taken by the Israeli military when they stormed the hospital two months ago, the ministry said.

Harrowing testimonies by the released Palestinians as well as human rights lawyers, and several pieces of video footage illustrate some of the worst forms of torture and ill-treatment by the Israeli forces since October 7. Similar accounts of torture have already been documented from decades of Israeli hostility across the occupied West Bank. 

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The United Nations human rights representative in the Palestinian territories told reporters last month of the horrific conditions the Palestinians kept by the regime face.

Ajith Sunghay said the Palestinians held by Israel reported being blindfolded for long periods, some for several consecutive days. Sunghay said he was unable to give an exact figure of the number of the Palestinians the regime is holding but it was ‘believed to number in the thousands.’ HELP US TO REACH OUT BY SHARING ON TWITTER AND SOCIAL MEDIA

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