4 Palestinians tortured to death during Israel’s Shin Bet interrogation
Four Palestinians have been tortured to death during interrogations conducted by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency since October 2023.
Media outlets quoting sources reported on Wednesday that the attorney general’s office had ruled out opening a criminal investigation against Shin Bet personnel in two of the cases.
One of the cases concerns the death of Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi, who died six days after he was abducted from the Gaza Strip in November 2023. Rantisi directed a women's hospital that is part of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.
On June 18, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Rantisi, 53, was abducted on November 11 at an Israeli checkpoint while seeking to flee south from Israeli bombing in northern Gaza. Rantisi was declared dead six days later at Shikma Prison, which is home to a Shin Bet interrogation facility. His body bore signs of trauma after interrogation.
It is unclear how Rantisi died, but Israel has a long history of torturing Palestinians.
Another Palestinian physician from Gaza, Adnan al-Bursh, 53, was also killed while in Israeli custody.
Bursh led the orthopedic surgery department at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital and was abducted in Khan Yunis in December. The father of six died four months later, on April 19, at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli authorities have not explained the circumstances of Bursh's death.
Dozens of Palestinians from Gaza held at Israel's notorious Sde Teiman detention facility have also died, presumably under torture.
These figures do not include Palestinians from Gaza who died in prisons operated by the Israel Prison Service.
The New York Times earlier this year published a report which included accounts of torture at Sde Teiman. Israeli guards used electric chairs to shock detainees.
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