More than 200 Global Sumud Flotilla activists, bound for Gaza Strip, were released after being intercepted by Israeli forces and detained in Crete, many bearing visible signs of torture and reporting physical and psychological abuse in custody.
The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has denounced the Israeli regime for enforcing a state policy of organized and widespread torture of Palestinian abductees raising concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.
Medical and field evidence accompanying the handover of Palestinian bodies indicates they were subjected to summary executions following torture, restraint, and being run over by military vehicles, the Prisoners’ Information Office affiliated with Hamas said on Friday, Anadolu reports.
A Palestinian rights group on Friday said Israeli prison authorities are systematically torturing detainees with electric shocks and other forms of abuse, warning of a growing pattern of physical and psychological cruelty.
A Palestinian abductee who was recently released explains the dire conditions inside the Israeli prisons, including torture, medical neglect, and starvation.
Hassan, 39, from the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanoun, was among the many men ordered to evacuate their homes by the Israeli Occupation forces, who invaded the city at the onset of the ongoing genocide. While the Israeli soldiers conducted field interrogations, Hassan's experience was notably different.
The United Nations has denounced normalization of the sexual abuse of Palestinian abductees by Israeli forces following several reports of rape in Israeli jails.
“The Israeli occupation forces carried out brutal field investigations with Palestinians in Tulkarm, Jenin, Tubas and Ramallah in the West Bank,” the rights groups said in a joint statement.
On 31 July, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, issued a report stating that since 7 October, many Palestinians have been detained in secret locations, and illegal practices have been carried out against them, amounting to torture.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for holding Israeli leaders accountable for torture of Palestinian prisoners in the regime’s jails.
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has called for an international investigation into the abduction and execution of Palestinian doctor under so-called ‘interrogation’ in Israeli regime jail.
A report by the UN commission of Inquiry has called Israeli regime responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during over eight months of Israeli atrocities against the besieged strip.
A new investigation by the New York Times has revealed that Israeli regime is carrying out a systematic system of torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners in the army base of Sde Teiman.
A Geneva-based rights group has issued a report detailing testimonies regarding abducted Palestinians, including women and children, tortured by Israeli forces.
Outrage and concern raised over the fate of Palestinians abducted by Israeli forces after a viral image shows a stripped, handcuffed Palestinian man being tortured by an Israeli soldier.