Reports of abuse at Israeli torture camp of Sde Teiman have surfaced in Israeli and Arab media after an outcry from Israeli and Palestinian rights groups over conditions there and cast more doubt on the Israeli government’s repeated assertions that it acts in accordance with accepted international practices and law.
Palestinian paramedic Waleed Anwar Al-Khalili told Al Araby TV following his release from the Sde Teiman that despite wearing medical team uniform, Israeli occupation soldiers targeted a building where he took shelter and immediately arrested him.
He added that Israeli occupation soldiers informed him and other prisoners that their fate was death in ‘Sde Teiman’ prison and they have to prepare themselves to different sorts of sever torture.
His testimony that multiple soliders clamping down on only one prisoner matches with several other released prisoners from the same torture camp. “More than 20 Israeli soldiers took turns beating me during my detention,” he said.
He disclosed that prisoners in ‘Sde Teiman’ scream hysterically due to severe torture, as they are hung by their feet for long hours during interrogation.
This policy of torture led to the killing of three prisoners while being hung from the ceilings by Israeli soldiers in the detention camp.
Affirming the same testimony on Israel’s savagery with Palestinian detainees, specially those from Gaza, Dr. Mohammed al-Ran, who headed the surgical unit at northern Gaza’s Indonesian hospital, recalled his detainment at a military facility where he said he endured desert temperatures, swinging from the heat of the day to the chill of night.
Al-Ran was arrested on December 18th, 2023, and released after spending 45 days, where he was, in Sde Teiman, stripped down to his underwear, blindfolded and his wrists tied, then dumped in the back of a truck where, he said, the near-naked detainees were piled on top of one another as they were shuttled to a detention camp.
“Part of my torture was being able to see how people were being tortured,” he said. “At first you couldn’t see. You couldn’t see the torture, the vengeance, the oppression.”
“When they removed my blindfold, I could see the extent of the humiliation and abasement … I could see the extent to which they saw us not as human beings but as animals,” Al-Ran added.
Sde Tieman is some 18 miles from the Gaza frontier. It is split into two parts: enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are placed under extreme physical restraint, and a field hospital where wounded detainees are strapped to their beds, wearing diapers and fed through straws.
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