Ex-detainee recounts how Israeli guards forced Palestinian prisoners to ‘bark like dogs’
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released video testimony from Palestinian lawyer Sari Huriyyah detailing the barbaric treatment of prisoners at Israel’s Megiddo prison, which he now calls “Abu Ghraib” after the notorious US prison camp during the US occupation of Iraq.
Huriyyah tells of how Israeli prison guards made some of the Palestinian prisoners “bark like dogs”.
“If they refused, the beat them until they started barking,” he tells the rights group.
Young Palestinian prisoners “were beaten and humiliated”, he says, recounting how “they forced the young guys to kiss an Israeli flag on the wall”.
“Whoever refused was abused. One of the female guards even took a picture with one of the detainees as he kissed the flag. There was constant beating, cursing and humiliation,” he says in his testimony.
Attn. Sari Huriyyah (53), a father of four from Shfaram, Israel, arrested over a Facebook post : "I was in Megiddo prison, which I now call Abu Ghraib".
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Israeli medic describes ‘horrifying’ sexual abuse of Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman
An Israeli medical staffer has spoken to The Wall Street Journal about the “shocking” condition of the Palestinian detainee whose sexual abuse at Israel’s Sde Teiman prison triggered a military investigation last week.
The staffer said the detainee’s wounds were so severe they required surgery.
The life-threatening injuries included broken ribs, “obvious signs of assault” to the abdomen and chest, and a severe injury to the rectum most likely caused by the insertion of a foreign object, the staffer said.
“It was pretty horrifying,” the staffer was quoted as saying. “It’s just setting the bar so low that I don’t know how we can deteriorate more morally. I was aware things like that could happen but I’ve never witnessed anything like that.”
WSJ, citing lawyers and medics, said the case only came about because the victim was transferred to a civilian hospital and people treating him had raised concerns.
Turkey submits request to join genocide case against Israel in UN court: Report
Turkey has filed a formal request with the International Court of Justice to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel, Turkey’s state-run news agency reports.
Turkey’s ambassador to The Netherlands submitted a declaration of intervention at the UN court in The Hague, Anadolu Agency reported. Turkey, one of the fiercest critics of Israel’s actions in Gaza, becomes the latest nation to seek to participate in the case.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of genocide, called for it to be punished in international courts and criticized Western nations for backing Israel.
Israel has strongly rejected accusations of genocide.
