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Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees
Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
By
Yuval Abraham
January 5, 2024
Palestinians recount settler, army torture amid surge in West Bank expulsions
Under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel is displacing rural Palestinian communities en masse. In Wadi al-Siq, the ordeal was particularly horrifying.
By
Oren Ziv
October 30, 2023
A Palestinian prisoner’s letter to his Israeli occupiers
Do I regret my imprisonment after being convicted of carrying out attacks? That’s complicated. I do regret one thing: letting them push me into a corner.
By
Tareq Barghouth
March 23, 2023
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Report alleges abuse, torture at Shin Bet interrogation facility
A new report by B’Tselem and Hamoked includes testimonies of Palestinian detainees who were held in Israel’s ‘Shikma’ interrogation facility. Human Rights organizations “Hamoked — Defence of the Individual” and B’Tselem on Wednesday published a report that draws on affidavits and statements from 116 Palestinians who spent time in the Shin Bet’s (Israel Security Agency)…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 24, 2016
Views on torture split along ethnic lines, Israeli poll finds
Attitudes toward torture in Israel differ significantly among Jews and Arabs. Poll also finds conciliatory views about the legitimacy of the ‘other’ and their claims to the land. More than 55 percent of Jewish Israelis think it is permissible to use “physical methods” of interrogation, i.e. torture, against terrorism suspects even if there is no “ticking…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 5, 2016
Palestinian journalist on hunger strike to protest admin detention
It took Israeli authorities weeks to even tell Muhammad Al-Qiq why he is being imprisoned without charge or trial — ‘incitement.’ He has been on hunger strike for 32 days. By Yael Marom and Noam Rotem Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, 33 from the Hebron area, has been on hunger strike for 32 days — since…
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December 27, 2015
Israel isn’t denying that it uses torture, it’s justifying it
Responding to a right-wing campaign accusing it of torturing ‘Jewish terrorism’ suspects, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency basically admits doing so, and insists it is acting within the law. Last week’s episode of “This American Life” was called The Poetry of Propaganda. The Chicago-based radio program discussed how official government messaging often contains different meanings for different…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 25, 2015
Settlers protest alleged torture of Jewish teens in Tel Aviv
Israel’s security service, the Shin Bet, has been using torture against suspects in the arson-murder of an entire Palestinian family, their attorneys and friends allege. Approximately 15 far-right settlers gathered in front of Israel’s national theater in central Tel Aviv Wednesday afternoon to stage a theatrical protest against Israeli authorities’ alleged use of terror against…
By
Edo Konrad
December 23, 2015
When Israel tortures Jewish terror suspects
The Right is furious over the alleged use of torture against the suspects in the murder of a Palestinian family. But is it any surprise that the tools used against Palestinians would eventually be used against Jews too? “Torture in Israel? The Shin Bet’s actions in the Duma case may turn out to be the…
By
Noam Sheizaf
December 21, 2015
Maybe there’s just no room for human rights in Israel
Those trying to delegitimize rights groups because their funds come from overseas are sending a very clear message: human and civil rights are not values that exist naturally in Israel. Left-leaning Israelis have for decades warned that the occupation will one day come home to roost — that the injustices visited upon Palestinians in the territories…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 16, 2015
‘I was force-fed six times — in a Soviet prison’
As Israel contemplates force-feeding Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan, a rabbi and human rights activist recalls how he was force-fed six times while imprisoned by the Soviet regime. The pain and humiliation remain with him until today. By Rabbi Michael Rivkin I was force-fed twice in two different periods of my life. The first time…
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August 11, 2015
12 Palestinian members of parliament are in Israeli prison
While we often hear Palestinian prisoners in the news, little is said about the lawmakers currently sitting in Israeli prisons. Many of them have spent years in jail, often as political prisoners in administrative detention, suffering beatings, interrogations and imprisonment in difficult conditions. Yet many of them still see a chance of living side-by-side with Israel, whether…
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+972 Magazine
June 6, 2015
U.S. torture report shows the danger of Israel’s legal loopholes
In American discourse, torture is a dark stain on the country’s recent history. In Israel, there is no law against torture and the justification of its use is still mainstream. By Nadeem Shehadeh and Amjad Iraqi The United States Senate this week released its long-awaited report on the CIA’s use of torture during the so-called…
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Amjad Iraqi
December 13, 2014
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