Newspaper Haaretz is one of several Israeli press outlets that is far more honest about the reality of the occupation’s torture, rape and murder of Palestinian detainees – hostages held indefinitely almost entirely without charges, let alone without trial, in so-called ‘administrative detention’ – in Israel’s horrific torture camps than the UK’s ‘mainstream’ media and government, most of whom have either ignored it completely or barely skimmed the surface of the crimes committed in them.
And in an exposé yesterday, the paper features appalling-but-not-surprising testimony from a whistleblowing soldier who worked as a guard inside Sde Teiman, the most notorious of the torture camps. The former guard relates the sadism, sexual torture perpetrated routinely against civilian hostages who “enter alive and leave in body bags”:
Sde Teiman, as anyone who was there knows, is a sadistic torture camp. Dozens of detainees entered alive and left in body bags. There are testimonies from guards, doctors, and detainees. None of that was mentioned in the [state-owned TV channel KAN 11] investigation. As if the entire hell we created there boils down to whether or not an object was inserted into a detainee’s anus. But I saw that hell.
I saw a detainee die in front of my eyes—he was sitting with other detainees, blindfolded,...
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