Mona Chalabi Instagram – If you’re seeing videos of Palestinian detainees being released, you’ll see that most of them look unwell. That’s because Palestinians are routinely abused while in Israeli custody. A recent report notes “several forms of torture and cruel treatment: beatings; positional torture/stress positions; sleep deprivation; denial of human needs (food, water, and access to a toilet); demeaning detainees by screaming, cursing, and spitting at them; forcing detainees to witness others, sometimes their own family members, being interrogated and/or tortured; and extended isolation or solitary confinement. In order to extract information and confessions, Israeli authorities regularly rely on deception, such as false claims that a friend or relative has been arrested or killed, and other psychological tactics, like describing the burdens placed on the defendant’s family”.
One study looked at 752 affidavits from Palestinian children detained by Israel before October 2023. It found that 96% of them were interrogated without a family member present and 100% weren’t accompanied by a lawyer.
Sources: HaMoked 2025, Btselem 2024, the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights 2023 and Save The Children 2023 | Posted on 20/Jan/2025 20:22:15
