+972: ‘My Hands Are Paralyzed From Torture’: Gazans Reveal Horrors Of Ofer Camp – Sde Teiman

 +972: ‘My Hands Are Paralyzed From Torture’: Gazans Reveal Horrors Of Ofer Camp

Inmates at Israel’s shadowy new detention facility face non-stop abuse – from deadly beatings and electric shocks, to constant handcuffing and skin diseases.

In February, Rami was arrested by the Israeli army at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The 42-year-old Palestinian was taken to the notorious Sde Teiman detention center, where, like thousands of Gazans detained there, he endured severe abuse at the hands of the guards. But he was soon transferred out. “…I found myself in another prison,” he told +972 and Local Call. That prison was Ofer Camp – a military facility that Israel established during the current war to hold detainees from Gaza, located between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Rami described the facility as no less brutal than Sde Teiman. “I was severely tortured,” he said. “We were forced to kneel with our hands tied from sunrise until midnight. Guards beat us on every part of our bodies. I was given electric shocks every two days.” He stressed that such treatment was not exceptional: “All detainees at Ofer were tortured, beaten, and humiliated. We [all] received food only once a day.”

On March 24, after weeks of detention in these conditions, Rami was released back to Gaza; there were no charges filed against him.

+972 and Local Call obtained testimonies from 19 Palestinians, some of whom are current detainees who spoke through their lawyers at the Israeli human rights group HaMoked, and others…

Gazans held at Ofer Camp, which is adjacent to the long-standing prison of the same name, are among the Palestinian detainees Israel classifies as “unlawful combatants.” As such, they go through a very brief legal procedure: normally, this consists of a three-minute hearing conducted via Zoom, where they are accused of “supporting terror,” and following which their detention is extended for another six months or until “the end of the war.”…

‘One of the young men detained with us was killed’

In May, following mounting revelations of severe abuse against detainees at Sde Teiman – including cases of death and even rape – a group of five Israeli human rights organizations filed a petition with the High Court of Justice…

Although the court stopped short of ordering the closure of Sde Teiman, the facility was gradually converted into a transit camp.. the abuse hasn’t stopped: it has merely been relocated.

🔗SOURCE ➡️+972 Magazine [X]

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This article originally appeared on Sde Teiman

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