Khaberni - An Israeli human rights report submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture reveals an escalation in Israel's violations of the international treaty against torture.
In their report, the human rights organizations accused the Israeli authorities of dismantling legal protection systems for Palestinian detainees.
Five Israeli human rights organizations signed the report: "Adalah," "The Committee Against Torture," "Parents Against the Detention of Minors," "The Center for the Defense of the Individual," and "Physicians for Human Rights."
The report confirmed that Israel is currently implementing torture and abuse at all stages of detention and by all security forces involved in imprisonment, with the approval of high-level officials and without judicial or administrative supervision, involving medical staff.
The report noted that Israel uses the classification "unlawful combatants" - not recognized in international law - to justify the prolonged detention of Palestinians without trial or safeguards for the rights of prisoners of war.
Israel has detained more than 4,000 residents of Gaza under this classification since the beginning of the war.
The number of administrative detainees rose from 1,100 before the war to 3,500 in September, with the average duration of administrative detention doubling compared to the period before the war.
The report outlined systematic torture practices including beating with sticks, pouring boiling water that caused severe burns, the use of dogs, a "disco room" with painfully loud music, rape with objects, and reported a policy of deliberate starvation by providing meals of no more than 1000 calories and 40 grams of protein per day.
The report stated that detainees receive medical care while their hands are bound and eyes blindfolded, and they are forced to use diapers to relieve themselves.
The report documented at least 94 deaths in Israeli detention facilities since the start of the war, in addition to dozens of cases of permanent health damage. It also noted the spread of scabies among thousands of prisoners as a result of withholding medical care as a method of torture.
The Israeli Supreme court was criticized for endorsing this situation by rejecting 18 out of 20 petitions filed against the conditions of detention.
The court issued a decision to close the "Sde Teman" detention center in one case, while partially approving a petition against the starvation policy 17 months after it was filed.
The report confirmed that the fate of hundreds of Gazan detainees remains unknown, and Palestinian prisoners are held in solitary confinement and denied meetings with their lawyers, representatives of the Red Cross, journalists, or their families.
