Israel is subjecting Gazan detainees to inhumane remedy, together with critical abuse, leaving them fully traumatized, in response to the U.N. Palestinian refugee company.
Detainees reported being subjected to a “broad range of ill-treatment” together with threats of electrocution, being photographed bare, sleep deprivation and having canine used to intimidate them, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini instructed a media briefing Monday.
The feedback observe reporting by the New York Times on an inside investigation compiled by UNRWA employees documenting the state of returning detainees on the Kerem Shalom border.
“We have seen these people coming back from detention, some of them for a couple of weeks, some of them for a couple of months, and most of them coming back (are) completely traumatized by the ordeal they have gone through,” Lazzarini mentioned.
“A number of people have been … debriefed about their ordeal, and we have indeed (compiled) an internal report about their experiences.”
The report had been shared with rights teams specializing in detention, he added.
Ahead of Lazzarini’s feedback, in the meantime, UNRWA mentioned Israeli authorities had “detained several of its staff from the Gaza Strip,” who later described abuses in custody.
“Our staff have reported atrocious events while they were detained and during interrogations by the Israeli authorities. These reports included torture, severe ill-treatment, abuse and sexual exploitation,” UNRWA mentioned in a press release to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they were forced to sign confessions under torture and ill-treatment” whereas being requested about Hamas’s Oct. 7 incursion.
The “IDF denies general and unsubstantiated claims regarding sexual abuse of detainees in the IDF’s detention facilities,” the Israeli navy mentioned in a press release, utilizing the abbreviation for the Israeli Defense Forces.
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