English transcript

4,000 remain forcibly disappeared, thousands detained without charge, held in inhuman conditions,

beaten, shackled, sexually abused, denied medical care, starved, raped.

Israel has effectively been given a license to torture Palestinians because most of your

government, your ministers, have allowed it.

It is thanks to the courage of torture survivors, and the Palestinians and Israeli NGOs who

helped document their inferno, if the truth has today reached this room.

Hence, I have decided to lend my voice to them, to the survivors.

On the fourth day in prison, an Israeli soldier threw food on the floor, which was only labneh,

yelling, eat off the ground, you Hamas horse, just like animals, end of quote.

The assaults were violent, with batons and boots, leaving prisoners bleeding on the ground.

They would beat prisoners, force them to insult each other, and even howl like animals, end

of quote.

They unleashed police dogs on us again, allowing them to tear into our flesh.

One dog attacked a fellow detainee and started mauling his genitals.

He bled to death in my arms.

A doctor shielded in a cage, examining from a distance, and said, throw him outside, end

of quote.

One of the soldiers raped me by violently inserting a wooden stick into my anus.

After about a minute, he removed it and inserted it again more forcefully, while I screamed

loudly.

Then he forced me to open my mouth and lick the stick, end of quote.

Quote, they put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands

to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully.

I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me.

I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded.

I felt a man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus.

I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera, so I believed they were filming

me.

I cannot describe what I felt.

I wished for death every moment, end of quote.

In Israel, authorities openly boast about the sadistic treatment inflicted on Palestinian

detainees, while journalists and other civilians have been granted access to witness and even

film their humiliation.

Officials caught on camera sodomizing a Palestinian detainee with a knife are publicly celebrated.

The criminal charges against them were recently dropped.

And my report also shows that torture extends far beyond the prison walls in what can only

be described as a torturous environment imposed by Israel across the entire occupied Palestinian

territory.

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