Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it?
By Jonathan Cook
August 7, 2024
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences
There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel, are routinely using rape as a weapon of torture against Palestinian inmates.
Last week, nine soldiers from a prison unit, Force 100, were arrested for gang-raping a Palestinian inmate with a sharp object. He had to be hospitalised with his injuries.
At least 53 prisoners are known to have died in Israeli detention, presumed in most cases to be either through torture or following the denial of access to medical care. No investigations have been carried out by Israel and no arrests have been made.
Why should it be of any surprise that Israel’s self-proclaimed “most moral army in the world” uses torture and rape against Palestinians? It would be truly surprising if this was not happening.
After all, this is the same military that for 10 months has used starvation as a weapon of war against the 2.3 million people of Gaza, half of them children.
It is the same military that since October has laid waste to all of Gaza’s hospitals, as well as destroying almost all of its schools and 70 percent of its homes. It is the same military that is known to have killed over that period at least 40,000 Palestinians, with a further 21,000 children missing.
It is the same military currently on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest court in the world.
If there are no red lines for Israel when it comes to brutalising Palestinian civilians trapped inside Gaza, why would there be any red lines for those kidnapped off its streets and dragged into its dungeons?
Read more: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2024-08-07/israel-death-spiral/
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Israelis Say It’s Okay to Rape Palestinian Prisoners
By Mike Whitney
July 30, 2024
https://www.unz.com/article/israelis-say-its-okay-to-rape-palestinian-prisoners/
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Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody a preventable crime against humanity: UN experts
UN-OHCHR
August 5, 2024
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A/HRC/53/59: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
UN-OHCHR
June 9, 2023
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Amir Mortasawi (alias Afsane Bahar) (امیر مرتضوی (افسانه بهار 