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UN: Israel Implementing 'De Facto' Policy of Torture

The UN Committee against Torture says Israel’s alleged torture policy has intensified since Oct 7, 2023, with 75 Palestinian detainee deaths reported, urging independent investigations.

  • Publishing its conclusions today in Geneva, the United Nations committee against torture said it found evidence of a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and urged Israel to establish an independent investigatory commission and hold senior military officers accountable.
  • Following the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas attack, the committee noted thousands of Palestinians detained under Israel's administrative detention and Unlawful Combatants laws allowing long holds without lawyer or family access.
  • Testimonies to the review described alleged torture methods including severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, sexual violence, deprivation of food and water, enforced disappearance, and forced diapers in Israeli detention centres.
  • The committee demanded prosecutions including senior military officers and an independent ad hoc investigatory commission, while Daniel Meron, Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, called the allegations `disinformation`.
  • The committee warned the conclusions could amount to acts of genocide and that the treatment "amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity," while the UN Human Rights Office said the killing of two Palestinians resembled a `summary execution`.
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