Reports surface of disturbing conditions at Israeli detention center’

According to Al Jazeera, while since the beginning of the Gaza war, numerous reports have been published about the brutal torture of the Zionist military against the Palestinians who were kidnapped by the Israeli army from Gaza, the New York Times, in a report on the types of torture and aggression that the Zionist army against Palestinian abductees inside a military base in southern occupied Palestine.

New York Times reporter Patrick Kingsley, who has conducted research for this purpose, reported: The Israeli army had allowed him to leave a detention center at the Sadi Timan military base in southern Israel (Occupied Palestine) for a short time at the end of May. ) to visit

Brutal tortures of the Israeli army against Palestinian detainees

This American reporter, who has conducted interviews with the soldiers and commanders of the Zionist regime on the condition that their identities remain hidden, said: Timan dam was a secret military barracks that has become a detention center for Palestinians living in Gaza. where many reports have been published about the mistreatment of these Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army.

According to this report, Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip spoke in interviews about the beating and violation of their rights in this detention center by the Zionist army.

The author of this report emphasized: I saw men sitting in rows, with handcuffs on their hands and their eyes closed, and Israeli soldiers were looking at them from behind the fences. Prison guards prevented these detainees from talking loudly, standing or sleeping; Except in cases where they themselves allowed them. This is part of the scenes I saw inside the Sedi Timan military barracks; where about 4,000 civilians detained from Gaza are being held and have been there for nearly three months, including dozens who were detained on the day of the October 7 operation.

According to the commanders of this military base, 70% of the Palestinian detainees were transferred to prisons after completing their interrogation procedures to be further investigated and tried, and 1,200 of them, or about 30%, were returned to Gaza.

“Mohammed Al-Kurdi” is a 38-year-old Palestinian driver from Gaza who was arrested in the end of 2023 in Sadi Timan barracks. He says that he was in this detention center for 32 days and his relatives did not know if he was alive or dead.

The report published by the New York Times about this dreaded detention center of the Zionist regime was prepared after three months and based on an interview with former Palestinian detainees, Israeli army officers, doctors and Israeli soldiers who worked at the Sedi Timan base.

In this report, it is emphasized that the Palestinian civilians who are in Sedi Timan Detention Center live in the worst and most humiliating conditions for up to 75 days, while they do not even have the right to protest. They are also denied access to lawyers for up to 90 days, and even human rights organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross cannot find information about their fate.

Torture with electric shock

In an interview with the New York Times reporter, 8 Palestinians who were in this Israeli detention center said that the Israeli soldiers severely beat them with batons, rifle butts and hard metal objects during their detention. 7 of them said that they were completely naked during the interrogation. Three of these Palestinian civilians also said that the Israeli army tortured them with electric shocks. The ribs of two of these people were also broken.

On the other hand, the officials of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) interviewed hundreds of Palestinian civilians who were abducted by the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip, and concluded that the Israeli army committed all kinds of inhumane torture against them. Civilians apply.

The New York Times, quoting an Israeli soldier who works in this Israeli military base, announced that Israeli soldiers are regularly beating Palestinians in this detention center and are proud of their work.

This Zionist soldier, who gave an interview to the New York Times reporter on the condition that his identity remain hidden, said: One of these detainees suffered a broken bone during detention, and I saw another one of them whose chest was bleeding. Also, another detainee died in Sedi Timan base due to chest injuries.

According to the officers of this base who were interviewed by the New York Times, out of 4,000 detainees in Sedi Timan since October 7, 35 of them died due to severe injuries caused by torture.

Military barracks or torture camp?

In recent weeks, the dreaded Sedi Timan base of the Zionist army has attracted the attention of the media. Among other things, CNN published a report about it, which was also confirmed by the White House.

In the meantime, the Israeli army, in its long statement sent to the New York Times, claimed that “the Israeli army’s systematic mistreatment of Palestinian civilian detainees from the Gaza Strip is not true, and the reports published in this regard are false and completely baseless.” .

The New York Times quoted Fadi Becker, a 25-year-old law student in Gaza City, as saying that Israeli soldiers arrested him on January 5 while his family was surrounded by the Israeli army.

This young Palestinian said that the Israeli soldiers took all his belongings and cell phone while arresting him and beat him to death.