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Sexual torture of Palestinian detainees from Gaza in Israeli prisons
is an "organised state policy", endorsed by the "highest, political,
military, and judicial authorities", a new report has revealed.
The report, seen exclusively by Middle East Eye, is based on
testimonies from Palestinian former prisoners gathered by the rights
watchdog Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
It reveals how the scope of sexual violence of Palestinian prisoners,
including rape using objects and trained military dogs, constitutes an "organised state policy", aided and abetted by Israeli institutions
and leadership.
One former detainee, a 42-year-old woman from north Gaza who was held
in the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre, said she was bound naked
to a metal table and repeatedly raped by two masked soldiers over the
course of two days.
She recalled that she was left shackled, naked and bleeding throughout
the night before the soldiers returned the next day to continue raping
her.
She said she wished for death and likened her experience to "another
genocide behind walls".
Throughout her ordeal, she was filmed. Soldiers later showed her the
footage while she was hung by her wrists under interrogation,
threatening to publish the videos if she did not "cooperate".
Amir, a 35-year-old Palestinian man also held at Sde Teiman, recounted
how soldiers forced him to strip naked, before their dogs urinated on
him and raped him.
He described how the dog "penetrated my anus in a trained manner while
I was being beaten".
"This continued for several minutes. I felt profoundly humiliated and violated."
Khaled Mahajna, an attorney with the Commission of Detainees and
Ex-Detainees Affairs, described how a soldier in Sde Teiman inserted a
fire extinguisher nozzle into a Palestinian prisonerAs anus and then
discharged its contents into his body, resulting in severe internal
injuries and intense pain.
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