Nine Israeli Soldiers Have Been Arrested After They Gang Raped A Palestinian Man In A Detention Center
The detainee was later transferred to a hospital with severe physical injuries, including anal trauma, fractured ribs and a ruptured bowel that required surgery.
Israeli media has aired a video showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian man at a detention center.
The leaked security footage showed rows of bound and blindfolded detainees lying on the ground as a group of Israeli soldiers escorted one detainee to the corner of the facility.
The soldiers appeared to be aware of the security cameras as the soldiers were filmed using their shields to block the cameras from capturing their actions.
The Palestinian man had been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from a refugee camp in Gaza in March from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and held at the Sde Teiman detention center camp.
The detainee was later transferred to a hospital with severe physical injuries, including anal trauma, fractured ribs and a ruptured bowel that required surgery.
Following the allegations, 10 Israeli soldiers were arrested, including a commanding officer.
Two of them have failed a polygraph test about the allegations, according to Israel’s Channel 12, which aired the footage from the camp.
The soldiers had denied committing or covering up an act of sexual assault during the polygraph examination, but the examiner deemed their responses deceptive.
Sde Teiman is an Israeli military base located in the Negev desert, approximately 29 kilometers from the Gaza border.
Initially a standard military installation, it was recently repurposed as a detention facility for Palestinians after Israel began its genocide in Gaza on Oct. 7.
According to a new report released by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, Israeli soldiers raping prisoners is just the tip of the iceberg.
The report, titled “Welcome to Hell”, includes the testimonies of 55 Palestinian ex-detainees, including 21 from the Gaza Strip, who had been held in Israeli prisons.
The report found that more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been converted into a network of camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The abuse includes “frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment,” according to the report.
A photo of a detainee, Ibrahim Salem, who was detained for eight months after being taken from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza was leaked earlier in May.
The photo showed him standing blindfolded with his hands tied behind his head in Sde Teiman.
In an in interview with Turkey’s TRT, Salem spoke about the severe methods of torture and control Israeli soldiers used against Palestinian detainees.
“This is me. I remember this photo, because it was my punishment to stand for six hours. This is one of the punishments where you have to stand and keep your hands raised above your head and sometimes they tell you to stand on one leg,” Salem said
According to testimonies of Israeli whistleblowers earlier in the year, Sde Teiman detention center is divided into enclosures where detainees are kept in cages, a field hospital, where injured detainees are kept in inhumane circumstances, such as being strapped to beds and fed through straws.
"Life in jail since Oct. 7 is a life that no human on earth can imagine in general, especially in the Negev prison, which is like Guantanamo. It is a prison in the Negev desert down at the bottom of Palestine on the map. This prison is isolated from the world. They (Israeli forces) act in the most disgusting and tough torture on earth against isolated detainees handcuffed, hungry and ill," said Moazaz Obaiyat, a Palestinian man who was released from Sde Teiman in July, said.
At least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since Oct 7, including about 48 people from Gaza due to to severe mistreatment and torture, according to B’Tselem.
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