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In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were civilians with no affiliation to Hamas, Israeli security officials later confirmed, and the men were taken away by the army without notifying their families of the detainees’ whereabouts. Some of them never returned.

+972 Magazine and Local Call spoke with four Palestinian civilians who appeared in these photos, or were arrested near the scene and taken to Israeli military detention centers, where they were held for several days or even weeks before being released back to Gaza. Their testimonies — along with 49 video testimonies published by various Arabic media outlets of Palestinians arrested in similar circumstances in recent weeks in the northern districts of Zeitoun, Jabalia, and Shuja’iya — indicate systematic abuse and torture by Israeli soldiers against all of the detainees, civilians and combatants alike.

According to these testimonies, Israeli soldiers subjected Palestinian detainees to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves. Many were tied to a fence for hours, handcuffed, and blindfolded for most of the day. Some testified to having been beaten all over their bodies and having cigarettes extinguished on their necks or backs. Several people are known to have died as a result of being held in these conditions.

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 129 points 9 months ago

It's crazy these israelis are acting like literal Nazi concentration camp guards.

Treating all their captives like sub-humans and going on a maximum level bully powertrip by making them do dehumiliating things or else they will torture them even till death.

Fuck israel. Nazi pieces of shit.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 78 points 9 months ago

I mean, we could all see this behavior prior to this latest conflict. So many videos of IDF gleefully beating down / gassing / shoving guns in faces of clearly civilians on their own property, on religious sites, on public streets, etc.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

That's true, but this time they're rounding up innocent people and openly put them into concentration camps.

All that's left is increasing the pace by building gas chambers and giant open fires to pile bodies on.

[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They've been doing that for decades. This is nothing new, it's just in the public eye now.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Why should they bother with outdated gas chambers when there is a free inflow of innumerous artillery shells, strike jets, tank shells, rockets and such for all that time. Just hurl the free boomball and don't worry about anything.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 9 months ago

Yeah, one of the reasons Nazis resorted to gas chambers was that they needed all the ammo to fight a war.

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Soon they'll have a very original idea to win their righteous war, an idea they'll call the final solution

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