Zionist Regime Torture Program

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer New reports out of occupied Palestine shows that the number of cases of torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons has soared in the past two years.

Date: 07 March 2015 - 21:56

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The "Israeli” findings goes on to suggest that there have been numerous reports of torture and violent interrogation by the Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, and the military court system, including sleep deprivation cases and beatings. Still, it is hard to believe the torture program stops there.
According to numerous reports by international rights groups, including the United Nations, the Israeli Torture Program is far more barbaric than that. The systematic crimes against Palestinian detainees – even women and children - are perpetrated from the time of arrest, during transfer and interrogation, to long-term solitary confinement and incarceration. Israeli soldiers and media as well as international lawyers and independent legal groups have all testified these systematic abuses time and again.
The Zionist regime might try to claim otherwise. Unfortunately, the fact is that almost every Palestinian prisoner has been tortured – even minors. Under the Israeli Torture Program, Palestinian prisoners are:
Sexually abused and raped, including homosexual rape; attacked and bitten by dogs; penetrated in the penis with a pen; metal rods up urethra; exposed, blindfolded and pelted with rocks by settlers at sporting events; forced to drink urine; forced to grasp barbed wire and endure electric shock; forced to stand in electrically charged water; forced to run the gauntlet of beatings by soldiers; dragged by rope around neck; tortured in front of family members; crushed under bulldozer and blindfolded and hung from helicopter.
The torture program is remarkably well documented in Israel, where torture has to be reported to the courts, but is usually not treated as any particular problem!
This is while international rights groups have on several occasions and reports urged the Zionist regime to honor the sanctity of life and its responsibility to prevent the torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners, whose only crime is protest against occupation and land theft.
Rights groups have also expressed their deepest concerns about the practice of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian children arrested, prosecuted and detained by the military and the police, and about the regime’s failure to end these practices in spite of repeated concerns expressed by international treaty bodies.
Under international law, the usurper regime has to stop its large-scale torture program that includes physical and verbal violence, humiliation, painful restraints, physical violence, and sexual assault against Palestinian prisoners or members of their family.
The international law also makes it unquestionably clear that all those Zionist war criminals behind the torture regime should be brought to justice at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. There is no other way to instigate justice.