Screams From Israeli Torture Camps Silenced
The New York Times publishes an investigative report on barbaric torture suffered by Palestinians, but hides it in 4000 words of shield for Israel. I think Palestinians deserve more dignity than that.
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The US empire’s rabid dog that is Israel continues to enjoy total impunity even as they commit genocide and the most egregious forms of torture against the Palestinians they have kidnapped from the West Bank and Gaza since October 7th. American media is forefront in covering up for Israeli war crimes during this genocide, so much so that they have openly referred to Hamas as Nazis. However as we watch the live-streamed genocide of Gaza, we realize the actions of the Israeli military are far more akin to Nazis than Hamas. This was made very evident when 4 Israeli hostages were rescued last Saturday, 8th June. However, via this article, I will not only expose the extreme hypocrisy of Israel and its genocidal partners in the West but also the decades-long history of Israel torturing Palestinian hostages in their dungeons of hell.
The fanfare and celebrations drowned out the real screams from real hostages. Tortured Palestinian hostages are being held in Israeli torture dungeons mere kilometres away from the Gaza fence. Despite the New York Times, the “paper of record,” releasing an investigative piece on the widespread culture of torture in Israeli prisons against Palestinians on the 6th of June, the mainstream news media and American politicians and their spokespeople have been utterly silent. This is deliberate.
The so-called investigation from the NYT was deliberately a word salad of an article, with editors finding it difficult to ignore the whistleblowers approaching them. However, since the beginning of the Gaza holocaust, the NYT's coverage has been comparable to that of Fox News, with editors in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem dictating their coverage of the genocide in Gaza.
The New York Times is not new to the claims of torture of Palestinians by Israelis. They have long been aware of this prevalent torture culture in Israeli society. They reported on it back in the 70s. During the 70s, the NYT relied on original reporting from the London Times. The same London Times, though now owned by Rupert Murdoch, recently reported that the rape allegations made by Israel against Hamas on October 7th were totally fabricated. This is eye-opening, considering NYT did a feature piece on supposed mass rapes that occurred on the day, without providing any evidence and testimony of survivors.
Failed Rescue Operation, But Celebrations
Last Saturday Israel committed another brazen massacre in Al-Nuseirat, killing at least 278 Palestinians and injuring 700 more. This was Israel’s grand rescue mission wherein they rescued 4 and killed 3 Israeli hostages. Israel since has claimed they practised this “rescue” operation for 3 weeks. Did their practice include killing every Palestinian in their way, including 72 children? Yes!
During this genocidal attack in Nuseirat, Israel also violated every international law they could. Israel’s Yamam forces undertook this mission including dressing up as humanitarian aid workers. Yamam soldiers were hidden in a truck of humanitarian assistance that transported them to the most densely populated area in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
As days have passed, more details of this gruesome terrorist attack by Israel keep rolling out. The New York Post reports that Israeli spies on the ground in the Nuseirat camp were instrumental in the genocidal hostage rescue mission. When we spoke to our former SAS source, he claimed under any circumstances, such an operation wherein 300 civilians were murdered would be considered a failed operation by both British and American military standards. Our source also claimed that the US and UK have constant drone surveillance of the entire strip of Gaza, and most of the intelligence collected for the Israeli military comes from these drones. With human intelligence, aka Israeli spies on the ground, Israeli’s Yamam forces would have known about the dense population of civilians at 11 am in a market in Nuseirat, the time of the massacre.
The more we learn about this murderous rescue mission, the more we realize this rescue operation deliberately included killing dozens of Palestinian children and hundreds of Palestinians. However, that has not stopped Israeli and American media from their celebrations. The same celebrations drowned out the harrowing reports coming out about Palestinian hostages in the torture cells in Israel for months. The NYT was not the first to report on this.
Lastly, we must ask ourselves whether Israel genuinely wants to recover those hostages alive. Given that their indiscriminate bombing of Gaza has resulted in more hostage deaths than rescues, and the only significant retrieval of hostages occurred during the 7-day “humanitarian pause,” it is legitimate to question if the primary objective for those in power in Israel is to kill more Palestinians rather than save the hostages.
The Hostage Disparity
As global colonial powers exert pressure on the Hamas resistance to release the 116 Israeli hostages, there is a conspicuous lack of equivalent demands on Israel to free the more than 14,000 Palestinians it has abducted since October of the previous year.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club reports that "Israeli occupation authorities, after almost 260 days of genocidal warfare, persist in intensifying systematic arrest campaigns. These efforts have ensnared over 9,170 hostages from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, along with thousands from Gaza.
The organization highlights that "the occupation has perpetrated horrific crimes" against these prisoners, resulting in at least 18 deaths. Furthermore, it is estimated that "dozens more of hostages from Gaza have been martyred." In a recent statement issued on Wednesday, the group revealed that "an investigative report by the occupation indicates that 36 hostages from Gaza have been martyred, yet it continues to withhold their identities and the details surrounding their deaths."
However such reports have been coming out for months, without any mainstream media in the West reporting on it honestly and with the urgency it requires. One such hostage was Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon who refused to leave Gaza during the genocide. Dr Al-Bursh, the head of the orthopaedics department at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, was murdered at Israel’s Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank, a facility notorious for subjecting Palestinian hostages to inhumane conditions.
"He was beaten to death”, ex-prisoners who shared the same prison recounted. Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah tells us, “he exhibited signs of trauma to the face and head”. Dr Abu Sittah is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who had collaborated with Al-Bursh in Gaza hospitals during previous instances of Israel mowing the grass in Gaza.
The news of Al-Bursh’s death surfaced only after some kidnapped hostages, released on May 2 at the Karam Abu Salem crossing, conveyed the information to Palestinian NGOs. After that, the Israeli military swiftly confirmed that the doctor had died on April 19, after hiding the news of his death for weeks.
Israel has refused to release Al-Bursh’s body, with activists asserting that Tel Aviv aims to prevent the world from discovering that he was tortured to death. Israel has also refused to release the bodies of other prisoners martyred under torture in their prisons, staying true to their campaign of maximum harassment of prisoner families.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club also emphasized to us that 310 women and at least 640 children have been abducted, alongside approximately 85 journalists, 52 of whom remain in custody, including 14 journalists from Gaza. Among the prisoners are 6 female journalists held under administrative detention or charged with incitement, as claimed by the occupation.
The number of administrative detention orders has soared to about 6,627. This form of detention is a severe Israeli military order that allows imprisonment without charge for up to six months, with the possibility of indefinite renewal. It seems Israel has the right to indefinite torture.
The PAL Prisoners’ Club pressed that;
"The plight of Gaza detainees is the foremost challenge for human rights organizations, particularly given the occupation's ongoing practice of enforced disappearance against the majority of Gaza detainees and its refusal to permit the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit and inspect their detention conditions."
A Desert Death Camp
On May 11, Wasim Saleem discovered a leaked photograph of his missing brother Ibrahim in a media report on Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. The image showed Ibrahim, blindfolded and with his hands tied above his head, raising fears of Israel operating a detention centre akin to Abu Ghraib. When shown the photograph, Ibrahim's family immediately recognized him, providing the first indication of his whereabouts in five months. Ibrahim, a 34-year-old father of three, had gone missing after being abducted by Israeli forces during a raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital following a bombing campaign that destroyed his home and killed most of his relatives. Ibrahim’s brother, Wasim, questions why he was detained, noting that Ibrahim is a hairdresser with no known charges against him.
A whistleblower provided this information to CNN directly from the Sde Teiman torture facility. However, Wasim Saleem has no idea whether his brother is alive.
Initially a military base, Sde Teiman was transformed into a concentration camp-like detention centre during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Situated about 30 kilometres from the Gaza frontier in the Negev desert, it now houses the majority of Palestinian hostages abducted by Israeli forces, subjecting them to severe physical and psychological torture, sometimes resulting in death.
The whistleblower’s accounts, which describe the harrowing treatment of Palestinian hostages—including beatings, dog attacks, starvation, and denial of medical care—are supported by reports from human rights groups, as well as leaked photographs, videos, and testimonies from released hostages.
These sources collectively indicate a significant escalation since October 7th, in Israel’s long-standing mistreatment and torture of Palestinian prisoners.
“The frequency of arrests has significantly increased since October 7, reflecting a policy of revenge and aggressive behaviour by the occupation army,” said Abdullah Al Zaghari, head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS).
“From the moment of arrest through interrogation and detention, detainees have been subjected to various methods of torture”.
Al Zaghari added that the testimonies from some released prisoners from Gaza describe systematic torture methods that defy human comprehension.
“Prisoners are left in these prisons with their hands and legs shackled and their eyes blindfolded for days and weeks. The use of shackles as a means of torture has led to the amputation of limbs for some detainees inside the Sde Teiman prison, where a large number of detainees have died,” he said.
We know that 36 Palestinians have died at the torture camp, with the Israeli military acknowledging the deaths but they continue to insist hostages are being treated "appropriately and carefully" and that any misconduct is investigated.
Despite clear evidence of severe mistreatment and torture, formal investigations are conducted by the Israeli government itself. For instance, on May 23, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, urged Israel to investigate “allegations of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment against detained Palestinians since October 7, 2023”. The response has been minimal, what else could be expected?
Meanwhile, the United States, Israel's genocidal partner, has expressed only "deep concern" regarding reports of Palestinian torture in Israeli custody. Conversely, American media and politicians assert with certainty that Hamas is torturing Israeli hostages in Gaza, despite no released hostages making such claims. One former hostage did report an incident where a 19-year-old Hamas fighter attempted to sexually assault her, later apologizing and refraining from further contact. However, this isolated incident does not substantiate the Israeli and US claims of systematic sexual violence as a tactic of Hamas.
On June 3, Haaretz reported that the Israeli military police had initiated 48 criminal investigations, mostly involving detainee deaths, including the 36 Palestinians who died in Sde Teiman and two Gaza hostages who died en route to the facility.
Although as expected from Israel, no criminal charges have been filed, and no suspects have been arrested.
Despite the constant flow of reports of inhumane torture at these Israeli concentration camp prisons, the US and other allies of Israel have given Israel the responsibility to conduct their investigations into these obvious torturous acts. The Israeli justice system is notorious for covering up war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli forces in their torture cells. When have Palestinians who faced systematic rape and abuse received any justice from the Israeli Kangaroo court system?
Al-Zhagri on hostages from Gaza alone;
“We estimate that the number of detainees from the Gaza Strip exceeds 4,000 Palestinians, who are held in oppressive conditions and inhumane circumstances. Gaza prisoners face coercive policies, enforced disappearances, and a lack of disclosure of any information, preventing local or international human rights organisations from communicating with the detainees”.
The lack of transparency surrounding these detentions exacerbates the distress for families, who are left with no clear avenue for obtaining information or seeking justice. Hostages seem to vanish into a legal void, held without charge or explanation and stripped of their basic rights.
Buried somewhere in 3800 words, the New York Times revealed several cases of severe torture and human rights abuses at an Israeli torture camp in Sde Teiman, southern Israel that are nothing short of barbarism. However, since the beginning of Israel's conflict in Gaza, disturbing reports of extreme mistreatment have surfaced from within the walls of Sde Teiman. Where has the New York Times been since December last year?
Palestinian hostages have described horrifying experiences: subjected to metal rod insertions, electric shocks inside their anus, and brutal beatings with batons, rifle butts, and handheld metal detectors.
Many hostages spoke of being constantly blindfolded and stripped down to their underwear during their captivity.
Younis al-Hamlawi, a 39-year-old paramedic, recounted the intense pain he endured from torture at Sde Teiman. He described being forced by a female officer to press his rectum against a metal object fixed to the ground, resulting in severe bleeding and excruciating agony. "It was like fire," he said, echoing the sentiments of Muhammad al-Kurdi, a 38-year-old ambulance driver who endured similar suffering.
Since October 7th, allegations of rape and torture against Hamas and PIJ fighters emerged when female IDF soldiers were taken hostage. These claims have persisted in Israeli and Western discourse until today. Israeli accounts circulated photographs purportedly showing evidence of rape by Hamas fighters, but later footage of the soldiers' abduction revealed the blood on their pants was from struggling with zip-tied hands.
Additionally, despite claims that the women were civilians, they were confirmed to be Israeli soldiers. A female soldier similar to the case involving the torture of al-Hamlawi, just a Palestinian paramedic.
It almost seems like Israel is deliberately using female soldiers to sodomize Palestinian men to death who have nothing to do with Hamas in an act of revenge. However, revenge for what? Every bit of evidence from October 7th shows Hamas or other Palestinian resistance groups did not use rape as a weapon.
This is internalizing of Hasbara. Israel has always excelled in making their citizens believe in something that does not exist by constantly replaying the horrors of the Holocaust of European Jews by Germans. Their actions are forever excused.
"I was imprisoned for 32 days, it felt like 32 years."
Physicians for Human Rights, an Israeli organization focused on human rights, condemned the hospital at Sde Teiman, a facility notorious for torture, as "a glaring example of ethical and professional misconduct."
Dr. Yoel Donchin, a military physician stationed at the compound, expressed bewilderment over the hostages' profiles, pointing out that many were non-combatants. Among them were a paraplegic, and another who had relied on a neck tube since childhood.
In all eight former Palestinian hostages, with their voices trembling with shared trauma, broke their silence to expose the horrors endured at Sde Teiman. Their testimonies depict a harrowing scene of relentless brutality.
One detainee named Falid Bakr, 25, recalled the chilling words of an officer who brutally beat him for falling asleep: "This is the punishment for anyone who sleeps." Other hostages recounted being stripped down to just a diaper and subjected to electric shocks.
According to the NYT report, hostages such as Bakr were taken to a room known as the "disco room," where loud music played incessantly to prevent sleep, a tactic considered a form of torture that caused one detainee to bleed from his ear.
Ibrahim Shaheen, a truck driver, recounted being subjected to multiple electric shocks while officers accused him of withholding information about the whereabouts of deceased hostages. Israeli way of getting information on their hostages held in Gaza is to abduct random Palestinian men in Gaza and torture them.
The irony is Israel has constantly run Hasbara campaigns focused on their hostages where they claim Hamas and Palestinians are torturing Israeli hostages. Amongst these claims is wild rape atrocity propaganda that serves no purpose but to manufacture consent for the Gaza genocide and the torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
Some of the released Palestinian hostages have been so tortured that the Red Cross nurses and doctors had to ask if they were even alive. This means a clear indication of horrific physical and psychological torture.
The Swiss Red Cross has made numerous requests to visit Israeli prisons and assess the conditions of Palestinian hostages, all of which have been consistently denied by the Israeli government. Similarly, the United Nations Investigative Commission has encountered repeated refusals from Israeli authorities when seeking permission to interview Palestinian prisoners.
Since last Saturday, the latest released hostages from Gaza and the Nuseirat Massacre have not reported any bit of torture close to what the Palestinian prisoners have all reported and have even provided forensic evidence for, medically and visually through photographs and videos.
Noa Argamani, one of the female Israeli soldiers taken hostage on October 7th revealed she was more afraid of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. She even reported being a victim of a missile strike from Israel that killed 2 of her fellow hostages. Miss Argamani told an Israeli news outlet in an interview, that she was allowed to wear a burkha and go shopping with the family she was kept with after changing multiple apartments in Gaza due to them being bombed.
This is evidence that the 41 Israeli hostages that are believed to be dead already, are most likely the natural cause of Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaign of Gaza. This is also evidence of the contradiction of Palestinian hostages’ conditions, who are bound for days with handcuffs so tight that have led to several amputations of limbs as reported earlier.
When hostages were released in the November Humanitarian pause of 7 days, except one, every hostage claimed they were treated well, and were taken care of by Hamas. This is not to justify taking hostages in any situation. However, the contrast between what Palestinian hostages are going through versus how Hamas and Palestinian fighters have treated the Israeli hostages is a story that has to be more prevalent. The evidence is in front of us, the propaganda is trying to drown it with wild, false claims about Israeli hostages being tortured, while the actual victims of torture are the thousands of Palestinian hostages.
Notice who the prisoners from Gaza are: medical workers, doctors, nurses, paramedics, and aid truck drivers, many of whom were taken hostage from Gaza's hospitals. What happened to the hundreds and thousands of others? Numerous Palestinians have been discovered in mass graves at locations like the Al Shifa and Nasser Hospital compounds, among others.
When Israel deliberately destroyed all hospitals in Gaza, they also tortured patients and their family members, executing hundreds of Palestinians with their eyes and arms bound. A United Nations commission investigating survivors from these hospitals reported credible evidence and testimonies of women being raped in front of their family members by the occupation forces. Is this not torture? Yet, the New York Times conveniently omits these details in their reporting.
Pride In Their History Of Torture
Lea Tsemel, an Israeli lawyer renowned for her defence of Palestinian prisoners subjected to torture from the 1990s to the present day, authored a report in 2012 detailing Israel's extensive history of torturing Palestinians within its prison and judicial systems.
“Almost every Palestinian who was interrogated can tell you about the sleep deprivation, the denial of access to a toilet or shower, the hunger, the physical pressures, including being made to sit tied to a small stool for days, the beatings and the kicks, the threats, the hanging, the bending, the shaking, sometimes to death”.
"Every Palestinian who was interrogated." This chilling statement comes from Lea Tsemel, an Israeli Jewish lawyer who has witnessed the extensive physical and mental damage inflicted on Palestinians throughout the country's history. In her report, she highlights her discovery of documents from the Haifa trials of 1972, revealing that the torture of Palestinian prisoners was far more widespread compared to that of Jewish suspects. The Haifa trials primarily involved espionage charges against Israeli collaborators, but Tsemel's findings indicate that Palestinians and Israeli Arabs were consistently treated worse than Jewish men accused of spying.
Lea Tsemel goes deeper after the Haifa trials' revelations. In 1977 the New York Times did their report of torture tactics Israel uses against Palestinians piggybacking on original reporting from the London Times. Unlike the recent 2024 report, the 1977 NYT reporting was more balanced and did not attempt to bury the truth to maintain Israel’s impunity. These revelations in 1977 were shocking to the Israeli public who largely remain ignorant about anything to do with Palestinians.
Since the 1972 Haifa trials and the 1977 London Times and NYT reporting, what steps did Israel take after it got widespread condemnation for their torturous practices against Palestinians?
Following the Haifa Trials, torture practices in Israel evolved to include extreme methods such as beatings, electrocution, sexual abuse and hanging. These brutal techniques were primarily employed by the General Security Services (GSS or Shabak) and Military Intelligence, marking a period characterized by severe physical abuse to extract confessions from detainees. Unfortunately, the revelations of the Haifa trials and the NYT / London Times reporting only resulted in torture techniques becoming more widespread in Israeli prisons against Palestinians.
Since October 7th, we have seen Israelis releasing “confession tapes” of supposed Hamas fighters confessing to every war crime Israel has accused them of, especially the accusations of rape and torture. These are claims that have no evidence in the photographs and GoPro video footage from the day. As an aspiring lawyer, I studied these supposed confessions. We must ask the question, how is it that every “Hamas terrorist” confesses with damning details to every accusation Israelis levied on Hamas happened on October 7th, but have no proof of?
Israel’s policies and history suggest these confessions were obtained after torture. Around 1987, Israel came up with a new technique to torture Palestinians. This time it was torture without direct contact or physical violence.
The Palestine Theatre: “Asafeer” (birds), collaborators posing as fellow detainees manipulate and extract confessions through psychological and sometimes physical threats. It is common practice to have Arab Israelis pose as Asafeers. “It was like your worst nightmare coming true.
“He told me my 16-year-old daughter was taken prisoner and no one knows where she has been kept in detention. I lied several times until he was satisfied with my answer. When I got out, I realized my daughter was never taken but every day an Israeli soldier would come and harass my family, telling them about how I was being treated in the prison. They made my family go through hell every day”.
Saliva Factory: Israeli interrogators are trained to fill their mouths with saliva and deliberately spit on Palestinian prisoners tied to a pole or chair while shouting at them. This dehumanizing act, which lasts for half an hour at a time, leaves the prisoner's face drenched in spit. Due to their hands being tied, they cannot wipe their faces. The prisoner is then left to sit for hours until another session begins. This degrading practice, aimed at humiliating and dehumanizing Palestinian detainees, remains common to this day.
“I felt like I was not even fit to be an animal for her. She spat on me till I could not take it anymore, but if I spoke, it would be worse. When I was released without charges, I could not open my mouth even to eat. I did not want to show my face to my mother, I felt like worse than an animal”.
Isolation In Faecal Matter: When all other methods fail, a Palestinian prisoner who does not comply with an Israeli interrogator's demands is placed in a filthy, solitary room, often stripped down to their underwear. These cells lack a toilet, basin, or any access to water. Food and water are provided at the bare minimum, and prisoners can be left in these conditions for days, weeks, or even months. Those kept the longest are often Palestinian academics, poets, politicians, and activists, who are forced to survive in their faecal matter due to the lack of sanitation facilities. The most recent version of this tactic is being used at the Ofer and Sde Teiman torture camps. Palestinian hostages are kept in solitary confinement or torture tents as shown in the above CNN reconstruction video with only adult diapers on, forcing them to defecate themselves and remain in the condition for hours, sometimes days.
I often wondered if I was still meant to be alive. They make you give up all will to even live.
Back in 2012, attorney Lea Tsemel's report provided a comprehensive overview of the history and ongoing issues surrounding the use of torture in Israel. However,, many human rights organizations based in Israel like B’tsalem have detailed accounts of Palestinian hostages and prisoners who underwent dehumanizing torture. We have provided a few quotes from B’tsalem above while protecting the identity of said Palestinians.
Despite existing legal frameworks and international scrutiny, the use of torture remains a deeply ingrained and troubling aspect of Israel's security and interrogation tactics. It is the Israeli way.
A report published by Military Court Watch in 2017 reported that 67% of all Palestinian children taken hostage are tortured and abused in Israeli military prisons. Israel is the only country in the world where children are sent directly to military courts and prisons. Children as young as 6 are taken by Israelis and abused in their torture cells. These children have no legal representation, are hidden away in dungeons and are separated from their families for months and sometimes years. Between 2012 and 2017, Israel “arrested” 6000 Palestinian children and put 72% of them in administrative detention.
Legal Intervention For Show
Due to international pressure, Israeli courts have sometimes intervened to address these atrocities being committed regularly by Israeli military and intelligence services. Two such notable interventions reported by Lea Tsemel were:
Landau Commission
1987 Landau Commission: Established to address torture practices, concluding that while torture might sometimes be necessary, lying to the courts was unacceptable. This led to the development of a secret list of approved and prohibited methods of torture.
Supreme Court Rulings
1999 Supreme Court Ruling: Declared torture illegal, yet left a loophole for cases deemed as “necessity,” which has allowed the continuation of certain coercive practices under specific conditions.
Israel’s intelligence and military continue to use torture using these loopholes because by their statements and actions, “all Palestinians are terrorists”. Hence these tactics become “necessities” in the cases of most Palestinian prisoners/hostages.
To Conclude
Almost every independent investigation and whistleblower report that emerges from the "Israel-Hamas conflict" indicates that the true perpetrator of barbarism is Israel. However, the rape atrocities and "bring them home" campaigns for the hostages have become an excuse for Israel to commit genocide. The glaring fact we have tried to reveal in this article is that the same institutions participating in these atrocity propaganda efforts have known for decades about Israel's culture of barbarically torturing Palestinians.
Every Palestinian in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th lives in fear and grave psychological trauma. To people who say Hamas is responsible for all this misery of Palestinians, do you think every Palestinian child deserves to live shivering every moment as they constantly hear the sound of drones and Israeli air bombers above them?
The fact is, this was never about what Hamas did on October 7th. If it were, Israel would not be killing Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Jenin wouldn't be getting bombed, as Hamas does not hold power in the West Bank or Jerusalem.
The reality is that Israelis were committing acts similar to Abu Ghraib long before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Israel had multiple Guantanamo Bay-like facilities even before 9/11. Throughout 2023, Israel was killing Palestinians while the world remained silent.
The New York Times similarly masked the screams of Palestinian torture victims with their convoluted writing, while prominently featuring false stories of mass rape from October 7th. They used fabricated evidence to highlight the suffering of Israeli women. However, when reporting on the severe torture experienced by Palestinians in Israeli torture camps, they opted to write a 4,000-word article, burying the legitimate accounts of Palestinian suffering until the very end.
Despite the NYT and CNN investigations, prime-time news in Western countries has continued their despicable silence over the systematic torture of Palestinian hostages. This has given Israel the confidence to pass a new law since the June 6th NYT article, by which ONLY Palestinians and “Israeli Arabs” will be eligible for “administrative detention without charges”, not Israeli Jews. Earlier in this article we defined what Israeli Administrative Detention means.
Silence is participation at this point. Given Israel's history of torture policies, it is time for anyone with a conscience to speak out. We decided that crimes against Palestinians required a real article. We decided to give Palestinian survivors the dignity the New York Times inhumanely denied them.
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This is so difficult to even read. I cannot believe humans can do †his. Also I know what you would have gone through writing this, here for you. Long live PALESTINE!! Thank you for writing this Noon.
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