🧵 A new Euro-Med Monitor investigation, conducted over several months, uncovers horrifying details of a massacre committed by the Israeli army in #Gaza City in November 2023. The attack targeted an entire residential block, killing around 70 people, and was followed by strikes on residents attempting to bury the victims.
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🧵Israel’s official campaign against @nytimes after @NickKristof’s piece,The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians, which documented accounts from people who said were sexually assaulted by Israeli forces is an attempt to obscure torture & sexual violence in its prisons⤵️
Instead of calling for an investigation into these allegations, or allowing intl. investigators, UN observers, and the Red Cross access to prisons, the Israeli govt. responded by attacking the journalist, the newspaper, & the human rights orgs. that documented such violations.
The crimes addressed in The New York Times are not based solely on Euro-Med Monitor’s documentation or from Kristof himself. Rather, they form part of a broader and cumulative documentation process involving independent UN, international, Israeli, and Palestinian bodies.
⚠️Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Eyal Zamir, has allowed members of Unit 100, who had been accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee from #Gaza at Sde Teiman military facility, to resume reserve duty after charges against them were dropped
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On 5 July 2024, five Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman prison in the Negev Desert brutally assaulted a handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian detainee from Gaza. This included raping him with a sharp object inserted into his anus, resulting in broken ribs, a punctured lung, and internal rectal tears.
These acts constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, documented on video and later leaked by Israeli sources. Leaked surveillance footage shows soldiers escorting the detainee to one side of the room, surrounding him, one carrying a dog, and deliberately using riot equipment to obscure their actions.
Over the past two years, Euro-Med Monitor’s team conducted hundreds of interviews with released Palestinian detainees from the #Gaza Strip. Based on their testimonies, we documented 7 main forms of systematic sexual violence in Israeli prisons and detention centres
Since Oct 2023, the Israeli army has detained hundreds of women & girls from #Gaza, torturing some for months. Testimonies from released women reveal a more disturbing reality: dozens were subjected to sexual violence, including rape
In a new extensive report, Euro-Med Monitor documented dozens of testimonies from Palestinians in #Gaza who reported systematic sexual violence, including rape, in Israeli prisons and detention centres.