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May 10 • 11 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
CNN finally sheds light on Israel's shocking and barbaric torture chambers: thousands of people, detained for months:

Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…
"a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics... ; .. where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot."
"enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are placed under extreme physical restraint, and a field hospital where wounded detainees are strapped to their beds, wearing diapers and fed through straws."
“They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,” said one whistleblower, who worked as a medic at the facility’s field hospital. “(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” said another whistleblower."
"These facilities are Sde Teiman.. & Anatot and Ofer... The camps are part of the infrastructure of Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law" which denies the prisoners the Geneva Convention protections.
"For those who repeatedly breached the prohibition on speaking and moving, the punishment became more severe. Israeli guards would sometimes take a prisoner to an area outside the enclosure and beat him aggressively"
"That whistleblower and al-Ran also described a routine search when the guards would unleash large dogs on sleeping detainees, lobbing a sound grenade at the enclosure as troops barged in. Al-Ran called this “the nightly torture.”
Remember the pro-democracy protests defending Israel's judicial review?

"Israel’s highest court had previously rejected writs of habeas corpus filed on behalf of dozens of Palestinians from Gaza held in unknown locations."
Haaretz have previousely called for the closure of one of these torture chambers: haaretz.com/opinion/editor…
See Palestinian human rights organisations appeal on torture and inhumane treatment in detention in March 2024
A thread on previous reporting on torture is available here:

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May 9
In this new article for the @JournalGenocide I argue that Israel's onslaught on Gaza has crossed the threshold of the military logic of defeating the enemy to the genocidal logic of elimination: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Continued contestation notwithstanding, a consensus is emerging because the evidence is overwhelming. It's manifested in a convergence of the interpretations of Israel’s intent and pattern of conduct in Gaza as genocide. This consensus strengthens the legal case against Israel. Image
The first part of the article discusses the relation between International humanitarian law and genocide: the focus should not be limited to the weaponisation of starvation but also to exposing all ways in which military logic seeks to obscure and conceal genocidal intent Image
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May 1
This a good example of the bias of some "human rights experts":
1. This is the UN expert on torture. Dr Alice commented on the terror attack in Moscow, sent a letter to the Chinese government regarding the trial of one individual, writes on refugees.

But 7 months later is yet to issue a detailed statement on Israel's detention practices.
2. Notice the language Hamas committed "mass atrocities". Israel killed 30 times more than Hamas, arrested many more than Hamas, displaced 1.7 million, starved 2.3 million for 6 months --> only "extraordinary intensity"
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Apr 26
Much ado about nothing? A thread on the ICJ president comments:

The amount of sophistry in defending Israel's crimes is just astounding.

But it's also a lesson in how the technical can obscure rather illuminate reality:
let us start with the basics: it is called the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide."

The word prevention here is key.

What needs to be prevented? Here is art. III Image
These crimes, that need to be prevented & punished, are manifested in acts & crimes that are listed in art. II of the Convention. Committing these acts to commit "genocide" or to "conspire to commit genocide" or to "attempt to commit genocide" are violations of the Convention.
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Apr 21
Details of Israeli police treatment of Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, according to her lawyers:

1. Police officers strip searched her in a humiliating way.

2. Officers refused to provide drinking water when she asked.

3. Officers hand- & leg-cuffed her for a long time.
4. The cuffs were very tight, preventing blood circulation and leaving marks on her body.

5. Police officers refused to allow her to take hypertension medication even though it was in her bag. This led to an increase in her blood pressure,
which put her at risk of a heart attack or a stroke. She was allowed to take her medication only a short time before she was released.

6. Police officers addressed her in a very demeaning way and hurled sexualised insults at her.
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Apr 20
Is it true that, as Gantz asserts, Israel has an independent judicial system that can "evaluate" any misconduct?

Here is what a recent UN Commission Inquiry concluded in 2019 regarding the killing of protesters, including children, medics, and journalists in Gaza 2018: 1/6
The Commission showed that Israeli army soldiers killed and maimed thousands of protesters who did not pose any serious threat to the soldiers. 2/6
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Israeli soldiers, snipers intentionally killed 35 children during the demonstrations in 2018, the Commission concluded. It reached the same conclusion regarding killing of medical staff and journalists. 3/6 Image
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Apr 19
A thread about the arrest of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian:
Ben-Gavir's police force is trying to intimidate, humiliate, and silence a leading Palestinian intellectual.

What will his thugs question Nadera about (what do you mean by "necropolitical capitalism"? "abolitionism and settler colonialism"? "unchilding"? "security theology"?)
It is rich for a police force, led by someone who was literally convicted with supporting of terrorism and incitement for racism, to accuse an Palestinian academic, who opposes genocide, with incitement to violence.
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