Torture in Israeli prisons: Strapped to beds, stripped of clothes
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An anonymous Israeli doctor has revealed a harrowing account of the treatment faced by Palestinians abducted from Gaza.
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CNN released leaked images of the Israeli torture camp Sde Teiman in the al-Naqab desert where IOF committed grave crimes against Palestinians. (Social media)
An anonymous Israeli doctor has come forward with a disturbing account of the conditions Palestinians abducted from Gaza are subjected to. At the request of the Israeli occupation forces, the surgeon was sent to Sde Teiman military base in the al-Naqab desert to operate on a Palestinian abductee from Gaza who suffered from gunshot wounds.
According to the doctor's account, the patients have no names. They are all strapped to their beds, unable to move. They are blindfolded and stripped down to their underwear. They wear diapers, the doctor detailed.
"This is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention and the WHO Code of Ethics. It is far more than just physical and psychological torture," he stressed.
Reports of abuse at Sde Teiman have already emerged in both Israeli and Arab media, following an outcry from Israeli and Palestinian rights groups about the conditions there. However, this rare testimony from an Israeli doctor working at the facility provides additional insight into “Israel's” policy of systematic torture and abuse amid its genocide in Gaza. It further challenges the Israeli government's repeated claims that it operates by accepted international practices and laws.
It is also worth noting that the details in the doctor's account align with those gathered by CNN from numerous other sources describing the horrifying conditions of Palestinians abducted from Gaza.
CNN exposes horrible Israeli torture methods on Palestinian detainees
Last month, three Israeli whistleblowers working at the Sde Teiman torture camp, a "holding" site for Palestinians abducted during "Israel's" invasion of Gaza, have come forward with testimonies of systemic abuses by the military, including prisoners being restrained, blindfolded, and forced to wear diapers, CNN reported.
The whistleblowers described the grim conditions that Palestinian detainees face in Sde Teiman, stating that they were not allowed to move, talk, or even peek under their blindfolds.
"We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold," the whistleblowers told CNN.
Guards were instructed to enforce silence using Arabic commands like "uskot" (shut up: اسكت) and to identify and punish individuals labeled as "problematic".
They described "a routine search when the guards would unleash large dogs on sleeping detainees, lobbing a sound grenade at the enclosure as troops barged in."
Located approximately 18 miles from the Gaza separation fence, the facility is said to be divided into two sections: enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are subjected to extreme physical restraint and a field hospital where injured detainees are immobilized, diapered, and fed through straws.
"They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings," they said.
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According to the whistleblowers, the beatings inflicted upon detainees were said to be done out of spite and not intended for intelligence gathering.
"[The beatings] were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge," one of the whistleblowers said.
One whistleblower recounted witnessing an amputation performed on a man who had sustained injuries caused by the constant zip-tying of his wrists.
At the time, Hamas made it clear that the systematic assault on prisoners and detainees "will not weaken their resolve," reiterating that the Resistance is committed to their liberation, a statement read.
It pointed out that the reported abuse and torture of prisoners and detainees indicate that the Israeli occupation government adopts a policy of deliberate attacks against them, motivated by punishment and revenge.
Hamas emphasized that the Palestinian people "will not leave their prisoners and detainees to fall victim to the brutality of the Nazi-like occupation," stressing that the Resistance remains committed to achieving their imminent freedom.
The movement called on the masses of the Palestinian people, their factions, and youths to boost their revolutionary and resistant actions in support of the prisoners by all means.
Elsewhere, Hamas warned the "fascist Israeli government" against continuing with its criminal policy and held it fully responsible for the well-being of every prisoner and detainee.
