Sterk melding i innlegg i Haaretz 13. juni 2024:
"Israel Is Hiding Its Draconian Detention of Palestinians From the Public"
Forfatteren angir at det israelske fengselet Sdei Teiman er verre enn Guantanamo:
"Have they heard in mainstream Israeli media about the Israeli
Guantanamo, Sde Teiman, which serves as a detention facility for Gazans
and for people suspected of belonging to Hamas? Do they know that over
the last six months, the number of prisoners who have died in Israeli
torture camps is four times greater than the number of prisoners who
died in Guantanamo over 20 years? At least 27 have died in Israel, and
likely more."
"Do people in Israel know that prisoners in Sde Teiman
are held without court monitoring and without Red Cross representatives
or lawyers being able to meet them? Do they know anything at all about
administrative detentions carried out here long before October 7, the
beginning of history for many Israelis?"
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Skudeneshavn 16. juni 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
HELE artikkelen i Haarez 13. juni 2024:
Israel Is Hiding Its Draconian Detention of Palestinians From the Public
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A Palestinian prisoner transported to a prison in Israel.Credit: Ilan Assayag |
Do people in Israel know that prisoners in Sde Teiman are held without court monitoring and without Red Cross representatives or lawyers being able to meet them?
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A protest outside Israel's Sde Teiman detention facility, last month.Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz |
A few days after the rescue of the hostages, the Instagram account of
Kan 11 TV noted their "blindfolded eyes and lack of regular food; the
terrible conditions the hostages were in … their apparent bad medical
condition, the hostages are suffering from malnutrition … cynically and
cruelly, Almog Meir Jan's captors celebrated his birthday in captivity,
even baking him a cynical and cruel cake." Those were the words of the
report.
Obviously, I was happy to see that they were in relatively good shape,
as much as possible when you are kidnapped and held captive in a place
you don't know, when your basic rights and security are taken from you,
and in the middle of a hostile war zone at that, when shelling and
explosions rattle every fiber in your body and soul, and you're not in
good shape even if you look it after nine months' captivity. I can't
even imagine it and don't wish it on my enemies.
All this made me think about the way in which the ostensibly reasonable
condition of the hostages rattled the world and delicate sensibilities
of many Israelis, and about how disturbed they were by descriptions of blindfolded hostages,
of how they weren't allowed to go where they wanted to or how their
captors threatened to kill them. "We are dealing with human beasts, they
baked him a cake! How evil!" were some of the reactions. "They deserve
death; they blindfolded them! They probably baked him a cake so the
world would think they are human beings, not creatures of the devil."
And then I thought about Mohammed Taher Jabarin from Umm al-Fahm, who
initiated a demonstration at the beginning of the war. He has been under
arrest since then, and photos show him to have lost a lot of weight.
Taher, a teacher and activist, not a terrorist or abettor of terrorists,
not a Nukhba member, simply a citizen who went to demonstrate and has
not been released since then. Have there been any reports about the
cruelty of his detention or the banality of evil?
Did the people who were shocked by the hostages' treatment hear about
the condition of Palestinian prisoners? Have they heard about prisoners
whose hands and feet were amputated because of gangrene caused by
handcuffs? Have they heard in mainstream Israeli media about the Israeli
Guantanamo, Sde Teiman, which serves as a detention facility for Gazans
and for people suspected of belonging to Hamas? Do they know that over
the last six months, the number of prisoners who have died in Israeli
torture camps is four times greater than the number of prisoners who
died in Guantanamo over 20 years? At least 27 have died in Israel, and
likely more.
Do people in Israel know that prisoners in Sde Teiman are held without court monitoring and without Red Cross representatives or lawyers being able to meet them? Do they know anything at all about administrative detentions carried out here long before October 7, the beginning of history for many Israelis?
I
tried to find reports about Sde Teiman on public broadcaster Kan 11
TV's website. I didn't find any on the digital version, and I scrolled
far back. It turns out that if no cakes were baked for Palestinian
prisoners, it wasn't cruel or evil enough to be reported.
How can one explain this total lack of attention, or denial meant to
justify the massacre Israel has been perpetrating in Gaza for eight
months, which the whole world except Israel can see? Exactly as I was
pondering this, I read a report about an Arab midwife at a hospital who
called for the release of all the hostages and prisoners on both sides.
She is now going through hell as if she were an arch-terrorist, a target
of the same people who were shocked by a cake in captivity. I now
realize – this cannot be fixed.
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