Khaberni - An Israeli human rights report sent to the UN Committee Against Torture reveals Israel's escalation of its violations of the international convention against torture.
The human rights organizations accused Israeli authorities in their report of dismantling legal protection systems for Palestinian detainees.
Five Israeli human rights organizations signed the report: "Adalah", "The Committee Against Torture", "Parents Against Child Detention", "The Center for Defense of the Individual", and "Physicians for Human Rights".
The report confirmed that Israel is currently conducting operations of torture and maltreatment at all stages of detention and by all security forces involved in imprisonment, with the approval of high levels and without judicial or administrative supervision, with the participation of medical teams.
The report indicated that Israel uses the classification "unlawful combatants" - not recognized in international law - to justify detaining Palestinians for long periods without trial or guarantees of prisoners of war rights. Under this classification, Israel has detained more than 4000 Gaza residents since the beginning of the war.
The number of administrative detainees rose from 1100 before the war to 3500 detainees in last September, with the average duration of administrative detention doubling compared to the period before the war.
The report detailed systematic torture practices including beating with sticks, pouring boiling water causing serious burns, using dogs, using a "disco room" with painfully loud music, and rape with tools, as well as revealing a deliberate starvation policy by providing meals that do not exceed 1000 calories and 40 grams of protein per day.
The report noted that detainees received medical care while their hands were tied and their eyes blindfolded, forcing them to use diapers to relieve themselves.
The report documented at least 94 deaths in Israeli detention facilities since the beginning of the war, in addition to dozens of cases of permanent health damage, and noted the spread of scabies among thousands of prisoners due to the denial of medical care as a method of torture.
The Israeli Supreme Court criticized for endorsing this situation by rejecting 18 out of 20 petitions submitted against the conditions of detention.
The court issued a decision to close the "Sedot Yam" detention center in one case, while partially agreeing to a petition against the starvation policy after 17 months of submission.
The report confirmed that the fate of hundreds of Gazan detainees remains unknown, and that Palestinian prisoners are held in solitary confinement, and are denied meeting with their lawyers or representatives from the Red Cross or journalists or their families.
