Hamas calls for intl. probe after Palestinian prisoner raped by Israeli guards

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has demanded an international investigation into the conditions of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons after several Israeli reservists were detained for gang raping a Palestinian detainee at a detention center in the southern part of the 1948 occupied lands.

“We demand an international committee investigate these horrific and brutal crimes against the prisoners,” Hamas said in a statement.

It stressed the need for the international community, the United Nations and rights groups to devote their attention “to conditions at the occupying regime’s prisons and follow up on the unknown fate of those who are currently forcibly disappeared.”

Additionally, Head of the official Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, Qadura Fares, urged the international community to “urgently intervene to stop the unprecedented crimes committed against Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.”

“The farce that the occupation military police came up with, and their detention of several soldiers aim to mislead world public opinion,” he said.

Fares went on to lament that the Israeli crimes against Palestinian detainees “no longer have any conceivable limits.”

According to the Israeli Army Radio, ten soldiers were detained for questioning as part of an investigation into the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza at the notorious Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev Desert.

Israeli public broadcaster KAN, citing a security source, said the Palestinian man was taken to a hospital with severe injuries to an intimate body part and unable to walk due to his medical condition.

Located in the southern sector of the 1948 occupied territories, the Sde Teiman was used by the Israeli military as a camp for holding Palestinians captured during its bloody onslaught against the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian prisoner raped by Israeli guards at notorious facility: Watchdog

Palestinian prisoner is reportedly subjected to rape by Israeli guards at a notorious facility in the Negev Desert.

According to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), an Israeli human rights group, “dozens” of incarcerated Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank have died in Sde Teiman and other Israeli detention centers due to the prevention of basic medical care, beatings, sleep deprivation, attacks with dogs, sexual abuse, and hunger.

The Israeli army is believed to have detained thousands of Palestinians, including women, children and medics since the outbreak of Gaza war on October 7, 2023. Those released have shown signs of torture.

Both CNN television news channel and the American daily newspaper New York Times have reported on the abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention since the bombing of Gaza began.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their illegal detention.

Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws. 

According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, a number of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.

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