Systematic abuse, torture: This is how IOF treated detained Gazans

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: +972 Magazine
6 Jan 2024 01:43
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An investigation by the +972 magazine reveals the atrocities that Israeli occupation forces committed against civilians Gazans that they detained.

Israeli occupation soldiers sit at the back of a military vehicle driving along the border with the Gaza Strip on January 5, 2024. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

An investigation by the Canadian +972 magazine news website revealed that dozens of Palestinian men who were detained in Gaza were subjected to systematic violations and torture at the hands of Israeli occupation soldiers.

The report recalled that "in early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle."

No, this is not a video from Nazi #Germany in the 1940s.

It is a video showing the Israeli occupation rounding stripped #Palestinian detainees in a stadium.

A child and a toddler can be seen in the horrific video.

This is just one example of Israeli savagery practiced in #Gaza… pic.twitter.com/NNgBNxOQVE
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 26, 2023

According to the report, "The vast majority of these detainees were civilians with no affiliation to Hamas, Israeli security officials later confirmed, and the men were taken away by the army without notifying their families of the detainees’ whereabouts."

"Some of them never returned," it noted.

The website cited testimonies of several Palestinian civilians who were detained as saying that "Israeli soldiers subjected Palestinian detainees to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves."

The investigative report revealed that many detainees "were tied to a fence for hours, handcuffed, and blindfolded for most of the day. Some testified to having been beaten all over their bodies and having cigarettes extinguished on their necks or backs."

"Several people are known to have died as a result of being held in these conditions," it noted.

The report mentioned that Israeli occupation soldiers "ordered all the men to undress, gathered them in one place, and took the photos that were later disseminated on social media."