The London-based human rights group Amnesty International on Thursday accused Israel of mistreating and torturing Palestinian prisoners.
Under the Unlawful Combatants Law, Israel systematically detains Palestinians “incommunicado,” the group mentioned, with the detainees being denied entry to legal professionals or contact with their households.
The report, based mostly on interviews with 27 Palestinians together with 5 girls and a 14-year-old boy, contains allegations of torture, enforced disappearance, and merciless, inhuman or degrading remedy by Israeli forces.
One man, a 57-year-old pediatrician detained throughout a raid on a hospital in Gaza City in December 2023, mentioned he was saved handcuffed and blindfolded for 45 days at a navy camp whereas struggling hunger and beatings.
Israel has not commented on the allegations within the report. It has beforehand denied accusations of torture and mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners.
The Amnesty report criticized the Unlawful Combatants Law, which has been prolonged a variety of instances for the reason that battle started after Palestinian resistance group Hamas’s assault on Israel on Oct. 7.
Since then, Israel has killed greater than 38,840 individuals, principally civilians, in Gaza, based on figures from the native well being officers.
Hamas’s assault resulted within the deaths of 1,195 individuals, based on Israeli figures.
The struggle has destroyed a lot of Gaza’s housing and different infrastructure, leaving virtually the entire inhabitants displaced and wanting meals and consuming water.
Amnesty mentioned that Israel is sidestepping worldwide human rights conventions by labeling the detainees “unlawful combatants.”
It mentioned it’s “calling for all detainees held under the Unlawful Combatants Law, including suspected members of armed groups, to be treated humanely and given access to lawyers.”
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