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Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees
Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
By
Yuval Abraham
January 5, 2024
Palestinians recount settler, army torture amid surge in West Bank expulsions
Under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel is displacing rural Palestinian communities en masse. In Wadi al-Siq, the ordeal was particularly horrifying.
By
Oren Ziv
October 30, 2023
A Palestinian prisoner’s letter to his Israeli occupiers
Do I regret my imprisonment after being convicted of carrying out attacks? That’s complicated. I do regret one thing: letting them push me into a corner.
By
Tareq Barghouth
March 23, 2023
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Breaking the wall of denial: In memory of Yossi Gurvitz
Gurvitz revolutionized activist-journalism in Israel, blazing a path for many of us to challenge the mainstream discourse and speak out about the occupation.
By
Noam Sheizaf
February 21, 2023
PA admits fault for activist’s death — then continues assaults on critics
The Palestinian Authority has taken responsibility for Nizar Banat's killing, but its crackdown has only escalated since, in some cases amounting to torture.
By
Dima Abumaria
July 27, 2021
Palestinians demand Abbas step down after death of Nizar Banat
The activist and critic of the Palestinian Authority died of 'unnatural' causes after his violent arrest, in the latest PA crackdown on dissent.
By
Dima Abumaria
June 25, 2021
Israeli police ran a ‘torture room’ in Nazareth, says rights group
Testimonies collected by Adalah reveal that officers beat detainees and deprived them of medical treatment during police crackdown on Palestinian citizens.
By
Dima Abumaria
June 16, 2021
The missing link to expose Israeli apartheid at The Hague? Torture
The ICC has overlooked how the Palestinian Authority, like its occupier, is using torture to maintain Israel's regime of racial domination.
By
Itamar Mann
February 18, 2021
Why Shin Bet torturers don’t have to worry about punishment
By clearing the Shin Bet for the brutal interrogation of a Palestinian detainee, the attorney general played his part in masking Israel's approval of torture.
By
Yael Stein
February 2, 2021
Dozens protest administrative detention, torture outside Shin Bet offices
On Human Rights Day, Israeli activists hold a first-of-its-kind protest outside the Shin Bet's offices, demanding an end to the agency's worst practices.
By
Oren Ziv
December 10, 2020
‘The occupation broke her once. Now Israel is trying to break her again.’
Israeli soldiers arrested Birzeit student Mais Abu Ghosh and reportedly tortured her for weeks over political activities on her university campus.
By
Jaclynn Ashly
February 7, 2020
How Israeli doctors enable the Shin Bet’s torture industry
From approving brutal interrogation techniques to writing false medical reports, doctors in Israel have taken an active role in the torture of Palestinian prisoners. By Ruchama Marton If the Shin Bet runs a school for its agents and interrogators, the curriculum most certainly includes a class on how to tell a lie. The texts taught, it seems,…
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+972 Magazine
October 7, 2019
Top court gives Israel even broader powers to use torture
Nearly 20 years after it banned torture, Israel’s High Court is finding new ways to justify using physical force in the interrogation of security suspects. Israel’s High Court of Justice last week ruled that Israeli authorities’ torture of a Hamas suspect was not illegal and that the Shin Bet interrogators do not need to be prosecuted. The ruling…
By
Edo Konrad
December 2, 2018
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