Sde Teiman prison...Palestinians' hell on earth in Israel's Guantánamo...International silence!
7th of Aug 2024 The whole world was shocked by footage released by the Hebrew channel 12 showing Israeli soldiers using shields while raping a Palestinian hostage at the Sde Teiman torture concentration camp.
later the man was hospitalized with injuries, including a torn rectum, broken ribs, and ruptured bowels according to SMohyeddin and CH12 Hebrew.
Early on Jul, 15 Lawyer Khaled Mahanja conveyed testimonies from inside Sde Taman Prison that “the soldiers insert fire hoses into the Palestinian prisoners' buttocks and pump substances inside them”
Mahajneh described the prison and The situation there as more horrific than anything we’ve heard about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, which was proved by the video above indicating one of the most horrific actions in modern history.
The first publications about the Sde Teiman concentration camp were released back on Sat May 11, 2024, we followed the most important footage and testimonies by B'Tselem and the comments by Human Rights Watch as follows:
Lawyer Khaled Mahajneh, the first lawyer granted access to the Israeli detention facility "Sde Teiman," has reported shocking accounts of severe torture endured by Gaza prisoners there. Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman are detained in four barracks, each holding between 100 to 150 individuals who sleep on bare floors without blankets or pillows.
“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges.
Thirty of the witnesses are residents of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; 21 are residents of the Gaza Strip; and four are Israeli citizens.
They spoke with B'Tselem after they were released from detention, the overwhelming majority of them without being tried.
Their testimonies uncover a systemic, institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners.
This includes frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment.
These descriptions appear time and again in the testimonies, in horrifying detail, and with chilling similarities.
Hadil a-Dahduh Zaza (24), mother of two from Gaza City
people were arrested and taken in a truck driven to a detention facility outside the Gaza Strip, two days later, they brought more women from the Gaza Strip and there were 19 of us in the cell.
The soldiers told us again and again: "You're Hamas." female soldiers told me to strip to my underwear and searched me like that.
The whole time, they hit me and swore at me The bus took us to a detention facility called Anatot, where female soldiers told me to strip to my underwear and searched me like that.
After 54 days in detention, on 26 January 2024, we were taken to Kerem Shalom Crossing and released.
‘Abd al-Qader Tafesh (32), father of two from Jabalya Refugee Camp
There were tanks and soldiers around the hospital and they had a camera crew with them, a soldier told me: "You're Hamas." I told him I was just a displaced civilian whose home was destroyed, we stayed standing like that, in a line, for about three hours, while the soldiers kept beating us.
We kept our heads down the whole way and the soldiers swore at us, later a female soldier came up to me, hit me on the back of the head, and said: "Shut up!" Then soldiers took me into a room and removed my blindfold.
Then they took us outside and put us on a bus. They ordered us all to say in Arabic: “Long live Israel, long live the people of Israel, they called us “sons of bitches” and “filthy” and cursed Allah and Islam.
I was held there for 40 days – 40 days of beatings, swear words, kneeling, and being hung up by my hands. It was very cold and there were no blankets. We were only allowed to sleep from midnight to 4:00 A.M. I didn’t know what was going on with my father until a detainee transferred to my cell said he was in very poor health.
I was taken to a hospital twice. The first time I remember being taken away in handcuffs without knowing where I was going. At the hospital, they did a CT scan and told me, “You need shoulder surgery, but you’ll have it in Gaza.” The second time they took me was after I fainted.
Muhammad Nazzal (18) from Qabatiyah, Jenin District
Each inmate had to stand, put both hands on his head, and bend his neck, every time I tried to cover my head with my hands, they hit me on the hands as well as the rest of my body, the night after the assault, when I went to the toilet, I passed out and fell on the floor.
The next day, a female medic or doctor came and checked me, especially my upper body my back, shoulders, and hands, they forced me to give fingerprints, which was hard because of the pain in my hands.
Ibrahim Salem explained the story behind the image that shook the world, saying the torture occurred after he protested when occupation soldiers prevented an elderly Palestinian with diabetes from going to the toilet, forcing him to urinate on himself, he was then taken for torture, stripped naked, and put in an extremely cold air-conditioned room during winter. He was tortured by electrocution and forced to stand in the position seen in the picture for four consecutive hours, not only that but he was subjected to mental torture when IOF officers used to lie to him during interrogation, telling him his children in the ICU had been martyred.
Detainees in gray tracksuits blindfolded and sitting on paper-thin mattresses.
A leaked Information to CNN indicates the kind of horror at Sde Teiman Field Hospital includes:
Inability to move or to see anything around you and being completely naked, which leaves you completely exposed,”
Being handcuffed and blindfolded leaves the prisoner in total psychological torture.”
Doctors were asked to learn how to do things on the patients, performing minor medical procedures that are outside of their expertise
Also, Doctors were asked to do operations frequently without anesthesia and the only pain relief that was given was paracetamol
Israeli doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; medical procedures were sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.
Strapped to beds in a field hospital
Some victims also spoke of loud music being played until their ears bled, being attacked by dogs, waterboarding, suspension from ceilings, and severe sexual and gender-based violence.
With all these proofs and testimonies Israeli police raided to investigate 10 soldiers who tortured and were involved in the sexual assault of a Palestinian prisoner.
Later settlers attacked the military base and confrontations erupted between Israeli army police and Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teman detention facility later settlers refused to consider this kind of crime as something that requires any investigations.
No actions were taken against anyone complicit in this crime, settlers, Mk members and even ministers in Israel defended this action claiming that these soldiers did their job.
5 August 2024
Human Rights Reports of alleged torture and sexual violence in Israel's Sde Teiman prison represent "The tip of the iceberg", UN independent human rights experts warned on Monday, calling for swift action to end impunity surrounding reports of violations against Palestinian detainees.
"Israel's widespread and systemic abuse of Palestinians in detention and arbitrary arrest practices over decades, coupled with the absence of any restraints by the Israeli State since 7 October 2023, paints a shocking picture enabled by absolute impunity," the experts said.
Human Rights Watch calls for international observers "What is required now is nothing short of an independent, global presence of human rights observers.
Experts said, "There is a failure to prevent and address the heinous rights violations against Palestinian prisoners and detainees." This came after experts have received substantiated reports of widespread abuse, torture, sexual assault, and rape, amid atrocious inhumane conditions.
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