The report, seen exclusively by Middle East Eye, is based on testimonies from Palestinian former prisoners gathered by the rights watchdog Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
It reveals how the scope of sexual violence of Palestinian prisoners, including rape using objects and trained military dogs, constitutes an “organised state policy”, aided and abetted by Israeli institutions and leadership.
One former detainee, a 42-year-old woman from north Gaza who was held in the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre, said she was bound naked to a metal table and repeatedly raped by two masked soldiers over the course of two days.
She recalled that she was left shackled, naked and bleeding throughout the night before the soldiers returned the next day to continue raping her.
I don’t know how israli government can’t understand that even if they don’t care about Palestinians being abused, that promoting sexual violence in their prisons and military, ultimately means promoting it on their own Israeli citizens.
Do these men just leave the prison. Go home to wives. And treat them with respect. Or does their violent tendencies go home with them ?
Even if a government doesn’t care about the prisoners health or dignity, allowing and promoting the guards to do these actions will ultimately make them violent outside of the prisons. At home. In their communities.
