On December 8, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces blindfolded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stripped them of their underwear, bound their hands and placed them on the back of a truck. The Israel Defense Forces collectively arrested Palestinian men, ranging from teenagers to old men, and stripped them of their clothes. Gazan civilians arrested by the Israel Defense Forces shared the pain of disappearance, humiliation, and torture. The Israel Defense Forces detained thousands of Palestinians. The Israel Defense Forces defended them from wearing explosive belts. In addition, prisoners were held half-naked for hours.
Dr. Mohammed al-Ran, a released prisoner, said he was held for several weeks to serve as a liaison and interpreter between guards and prisoners after the Israel Defense Forces eliminated his ties to Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces denies holding prisoners any longer than necessary. When taken by force, they were stripped down to their underwear, handcuffed, blindfolded, and thrown on top of the nearly naked prisoners in the back of a truck. Israel's revised law allowed for detention for up to 75 days without judicial approval and 90 days without access to a lawyer if classified as an illegal combatant. Israeli medical personnel faced ethical, professional, and even emotional distress.
The Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert in southern Israel was converted and expanded by the Israel Defense Forces into a Palestinian detention camp after October 7, 2023. Serious human rights obstacles reported, including deaths by electric stick, rape orders in the Gaza Strip, and UN personnel made to sit on hot metal rods. Allegations of rape against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accompanied the allegations. Prisoners were handcuffed until it was determined that they were not a security threat. They warned that martyrdom was better than being captured and housed in a Sde Taiman filled with the stench of decay. Prisoners were diapered, unable to use the toilet, bound hand and foot, and blindfolded. Divided into enclosures where they were placed under extreme physical restraints and field hospitals where the wounded were strapped to beds, diapered, and fed through straws, by late May 2024 some 1,000 detainees had been forcibly confined to the Sde Tayman facility for up to three months.
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