Shocking Abuse of Gazans Inside Israeli Detention Camp: Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers working at the desert detention camp said Palestinian captives were strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers, and some had limbs amputated

Israel is torturing Palestinian captives at a detention facility in the Negev desert, a new investigation published by CNN on 10 May revealed, including by strapping injured captives to beds in diapers, feeding them through tubes, and amputating limbs after constant handcuffing.

CNN spoke to three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the Sde Teiman desert camp, which holds Palestinians abducted in Gaza by the Israeli army during military operations.

CNN writes, “They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being ‘a paradise for interns’; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.”

One of the whistleblowers provided a photo showing rows of blindfolded men in gray tracksuits sitting on paper-thin mattresses behind a fence and barbed wire.

The military base turned detention facility has two parts. One holds 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza under “extreme physical restraint,” while injured captives are held in a field hospital where they “are strapped to their beds, wearing diapers and fed through straws,” CNN writes.

“They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,” said one whistleblower who worked as a medic at the field hospital.

“[The beatings] were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” said another whistleblower. “It was punishment for what they [the Palestinians] did on October 7 and punishment for behavior in the camp.”

One whistleblower who worked as a guard said he saw a man who was beaten until he had both broken teeth and bones.

The detention camp is one of three holding an unknown number of Palestinians from Gaza, who are often swept up randomly en masse and accused of fighting with the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.

Under Israel’s recently passed Unlawful Combatant Law, the abducted Palestinians can be held for 45 days before they are either released or transferred to the formal Israeli prison system.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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