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UN committee presses Israel to investigate torture claims
A UN committee has urged Israel to set up an independent investigatory commission to investigate claims of torture of Palestinians, saying the situation has “gravely intensified” since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza.
The Committee against Torture said it’s “deeply concerned about reports indicating a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill-treatment” in Israel.
The committee – with 10 independent experts who monitor how countries implement an international convention against torture – stressed it “unequivocally condemned the attack perpetrated by Hamas and other groups on October 7, 2023 against Israel”.
But it also highlighted “the disproportionate nature of Israel’s response to these attacks” while imposing “cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population”.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, rejected the allegations, branding them “disinformation”.
Useless UN continues to urge, call, denounce, condemn.
‘They only came to us to beat us … nothing else’
Mohammed Ibrahim and Tasneem al-Hams, ages 16 and 22, respectively, were both just released from Israeli custody. As they reunited with their loved ones, both described brutal conditions inside the prisons.
Palestinian American teenager Ibrahim was arrested in February for allegedly throwing stones in the occupied West Bank. He spent almost 10 months in an Israeli prison.
An armed group abducted al-Hams from a medical facility in Gaza where she was working as a nurse – and then handed her over to Israel. For almost two months, Israel moved her from prison to prison, where she described violent treatment and soldiers denying women from wearing their hijabs.
