A U.N. report details scenes at a military hangar inside Sde Teiman, an army base in southern Israel that has become synonymous with the detention of Gazan Palestinians.
Mr.
al-Hamlawi, the senior nurse, said a female officer had ordered two soldiers to lift him up and press his rectum against a metal stick that was fixed to the ground. Mr. al-Hamlawi said the stick penetrated his rectum for roughly five seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him with “unbearable pain.”
A leaked draft of the UNRWA report detailed an interview that gave a similar account. It cited a 41-year-old detainee who said that interrogators “made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,” and also said that another detainee “died after they put the electric stick up” his anus.
Mr. al-Hamlawi recalled being forced to sit in a chair wired with electricity. He said he was shocked so often that, after initially urinating uncontrollably, he then stopped urinating for several days. Mr. al-Hamlawi said he, too, had been forced to wear nothing but a diaper, to stop him from soiling the floor.
.@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
In what ways do reports of torture challenge your beliefs about the responsibility of the international community to intervene?
@9NNJLVB2yrs2Y
I believe that the international communities and countries across the world should have intervened 75 years ago, before being exposed to reports on torture, which is a direct result of international communities failing to intervene earlier.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How would you feel if someone you knew was subjected to the types of treatment described in the U.N. report?
@9NNKB6M2yrs2Y
I'd feel the same as I did un reading about it firstg. Disgusted to my core.
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