{"id":202869,"date":"2020-02-22T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202869"},"modified":"2020-02-26T05:40:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:40:29","slug":"shocking-atrocities-we-are-all-palestinians-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202869","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Atrocities: We Are All Palestinians Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gruesome details have recently emerged of Israel\u2019s torture of Palestinian prisoners, with the US standing by as complicit partners in these shocking atrocities.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

By Whitney Webb — February 12, 2020<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>with commentary from Lasha Darkmoon<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
One prisoner was hospitalized for kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another had his genitals bitten by a security dog while a third man was left wheelchair-bound and unrecognizable.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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An actor is seen demonstrating the “banana” method, one of several standard torture techniques reportedly used by the Shin Bet during interrogations of Palestinian prisoners. (AP Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

New allegations have surfaced claiming that Israel\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet or Shabak, is engaged in the brutal torture of Palestinian detainees, despite the practice being against both Israeli and international law. The new accusations, deemed \u201cvery credible\u201d by both Israeli and Palestinian rights groups, come amid a recorded spike in the use of torture on Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The latest cases involve three Palestinian men who were detained as part of the extensive manhunt that followed an August 23 bombing that killed an Israeli settler and teenager Rina Shnerb. The three men, living in the occupied West Bank, were detained per Israel\u2019s controversial practice of \u201cadministrative detention,\u201d whereby Israel may detain an individual for months or even years without charging them with a crime.<\/h5>\n
The lawyers and family members of the three main suspects have asserted that all three men suspected of links to the bombing had been tortured to the point of needing hospitalization, with one of them being admitted for kidney failure and 11 broken ribs before subsequently being returned to the custody of Israeli interrogators. Another of the men had his genitals bitten by a security dog while the third man was wheelchair-bound and unrecognizable to his wife when he appeared in a courtroom.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
While these three Palestinian men\u2019s experiences are extreme cases, the same Shin Bet investigation also tortured several other detainees in less severe ways but nonetheless left them traumatized. Those detainees were released after weeks in detention and were never charged. Shin Bet\u00a0also arrested family members\u00a0of detainees and, in some cases, paraded them in front of detainees in order to create the impression that their wives and children would also undergo the same harsh treatment.<\/h5>\n
Though the manhunt and resulting torture of Palestinian suspects took place months ago, reporting on the incidents was delayed due to\u00a0an Israeli court-mandated gag order\u00a0that was renewed multiple times since it was first issued last September. That gag order, in effect for well over three months, also made court proceedings of the three main suspects in the case closed to the public and prevented family members from attending court, with few exceptions.<\/h5>\n

A spike in torture<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The alleged torturing of prisoners in connection to the August 23 bombing occurred during a period when the use of torture of West Bank Palestinians by Shin Bet spiked dramatically,\u00a0according to\u00a0the Palestinian prisoner rights organization Adameer, which issued a report last month that contained hard evidence of \u201cthe systematic use of torture and ill-treatment\u201d against Palestinian detainees at the Al-Mascobiyya interrogation center.<\/h5>\n
The torture of detainees, though often denied by Israeli officials, is technically illegal.<\/h5>\n
Yet, a\u00a0loophole\u00a0provided in the same 1999 Israeli Supreme Court ruling that made the practice illegal has allowed it to continue, as the ruling only prohibited torture of detainees unless there was suspicion of an imminent attack. This loophole has routinely been used by Shin Bet, especially given that Shin Bet officials who engage in the practice have done so for decades with impunity. Indeed, while over one thousand official complaints against the Shin Bet related to its use of torture have been filed since 2001,\u00a0only one has ever gone to court\u00a0\u2014 a 2017 case which is still open.<\/h5>\n
In addition, the use of torture\u00a0has been supported\u00a0by a cadre of doctors who work with Shin Bet by approving brutal interrogation tactics, falsifying medical reports and engaging in other activities that provide justifications for the use of extreme and internationally-condemned interrogation methods.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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A fierce dog bares its fangs at an Iraqi prisoner at Abu Ghraib camp in Iraq<\/p><\/div>\n

[LD] One of the three Palestinian suspects, illegally detained by Shin Bet, \u201chad his genitals bitten by a security dog\u201d. (<\/strong>See above<\/em>). Israeli doctors were no doubt close at hand, monitoring the situation and attempting to provide medical assistance to make sure the detainee in question managed to survive in order to face brutal interrogation again. We learn from widely publicised reports that American doctors, as well as Israeli \u201cadvisers\u201d in \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d, were in full use at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib torture camps. We now learn that Israel has developed sophisticated new torture techniques and is utilising them against detainees in Occupied Palestine. [LD]\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The doctors\u2019 support would also likely help to protect Shin Bet officials in the event that more of these torture cases ever went to court.<\/h5>\n
One likely reason for the culture of the impunity is the tacit approval of a large portion of the Israeli populace regarding the use of torture on those deemed \u201cenemy combatants.\u201d<\/h5>\n
For instance, one poll of youth between the ages of 20 and 35 conducted in 16 countries last month found that Israeli youths were by far\u00a0the most supportive of the use of torture, with only 23 percent of Israeli respondents opposing the practice, compared to the international average of 55 percent.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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ISRAELI\u00a0 SETTLERS<\/strong> attacking a Palestinian woman in the West Bank. It is obviously out-of-control Jewish bullies like this who back the torture of Palestinian prisoners.\u00a0 [LD]<\/strong><\/h5>\n
As to why the last few months have seen a spike in reports of the torture of Palestinian prisoners, the answer is not entirely clear.<\/h5>\n
One possible explanation could be related to the U.S.-Israeli push to enact the so-called \u201cDeal of the Century\u201d as well as the current political upheaval in Israeli that has seen the country awaiting its third election in less than a year, as embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to promote his tough-on-crime and security-focused stances during the prolonged election season.<\/h5>\n
LD: What the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians today, they will arguably be more than capable of doing to the American people tomorrow in Zionist Occupied America.\u00a0 Just give them time.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Remember the chilling words of\u00a0 Jewish intellectual Yossi Gurvitz (pictured here<\/span><\/a>) who revealed the grim truth behind the Jewish trick of pretending to be being nice and friendly as long as Jews are in a relatively weak position, but of being mercilessly cruel \u201cwhen Israel is mighty.\u201d (See here<\/span> <\/a>for full details). <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Note that Israel has already deemed itself powerful enough to kill and torture American citizens with impunity. If you doubt this, read this recent article<\/span><\/a> by Philip Giraldi giving the gory details.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
We are all Palestinians now.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Whitney Webb\u00a0is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously posted under the title \u201cGruesome Details Emerge of Israel\u2019s Torture of Palestinian Prisoners\u201d. Updated with photos and commentary from Lasha Darkmoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":202446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202874,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202869\/revisions\/202874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}