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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Euro-Med: Israeli army entertains settlers by allowing them to witness torture of Gazans</h1>
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<p>GENEVA, (PIC)</p>
<p>The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor announced
receiving new shocking testimonies from recently released Palestinian
prisoners revealing that Israeli occupation army brought groups of
Jewish settlers to detention centers and prisons to witness how
detainees from the Gaza Strip are tortured, allowing many of them to
film prisoners using their mobile phones.</p>
<p>The Jewish settlers enjoyed witnessing the torture rounds of
Palestinian prisoners with all types of ill and inhumane treatment, the
released detainees told Euro-Med Monitor.</p>
<p>The prisoners were detained for varying periods inside a detention
center in Zikim military base on the northern border of the Gaza Strip,
and another detention center near the Negev prison in the south, after
they were rounded up in the Israeli occupation army’s ground incursions
into the Strip.</p>
<p>The released detainees told Euro-Med Monitor that the Israeli
soldiers deliberately presented them in front of Jewish settlers and
claimed they were fighters affiliated with Palestinian factions, and
that they participated in the Oct. 7 attack on Gaza Envelope
settlements.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med explained that, according to the testimonies it
received, groups of Jewish settlers, ranging from 10 to 20 people in
each group, were allowed to watch and take photos of Palestinian
prisoners who were held naked while being subjected to beating with
metal batons and electric sticks by Israeli soldiers who poured hot
water over their heads, amid verbal insults and threats in Arabic.</p>
<p>Euro-Med pointed out that this was the first time Israeli illegal
practices and torture have been carried out in front of Jewish settlers
inside prisons and detention centers, allowing settlers to document the
beatings using their personal mobile phones while laughing at and
humiliating the Palestinian detainees. This is an added crime to all
crimes previously committed by the Israeli army against the Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip, especially against prisoners and detainees who are
subjected to arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearance, brutal torture,
and denial of fair trial.</p>
<p>Omar Abu Mudallala, a 43 years old Gazan, told the Euro-Med team: “I
was arrested at the checkpoint near Al-Kuwait roundabout, which
separates Gaza City from Central Gaza, as part of random arrests
campaign. I was subjected to torture and abuse at all stages. The arrest
lasted for about 52 days,” pointing out that Israeli soldiers “brought
civilians to watch our torture while we were naked.”</p>
<p>“The Israeli army brought a number of Jewish settlers into our
detention centers while they were beating us, and they started telling
them, ‘These are the Hamas terrorists who killed you and raped your
women on October 7’. The settlers were filming us on their mobile phones
while we were subjected to beating, abuse, and torture. They were
making fun of us”, Abu Mudallala added.</p>
<p>“This happened five times during my detention period, once in Zikim
and four times in Negev. We were blindfolded, but one of the detainees
who knows Hebrew informed us that the soldiers were talking to Israeli
civilians, claiming that we were fighters,” he said.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med Monitor wondered why the Palestinian detainees who were
claimed to be resistance fighters were released, which obviously
indicated that the Israeli story was false and was only used to
collectively punish the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med confirmed that the crimes of torture and inhuman
treatment practiced by the Israeli army against Palestinian detainees
are war crimes and mounts to crimes against humanity in accordance with
the Rome Statute, condemning the behavior of transforming these illegal
practices into entertainment tools for Jewish settlers because it
constitutes a war crime that involves a serious assault on human dignity
through humiliation and degradation of prisoners.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med has warned of the consequences of engaging Israeli
settlers in detention centers, stressing that it perpetuates a state of
extremism, fuels hatred, and inflames internal Israeli opinion towards
committing more crimes and violations against the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The human right organization reiterated that the vast majority of the
detainees of the Gaza Strip are subject to arbitrary detention based on
no charges or trials because they have been subjected to enforced
disappearance, torture, and inhuman treatment, calling on the
International Committee of the Red Cross to investigate detention
conditions of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, to expose their fate
and the crimes they have been subjected to.</p>
<p>The Euro-Medi affirmed that Israeli practices against Palestinian
detainees are clearly violating the international norms and conventions,
especially the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.</p>
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