Palestinians tortured while incarcerated
JVL Introduction
After the horrible delay in the release of 600 Palestinians from incarceration due on Saturday February 22nd, Thursday’s releases were hugely welcomed and must have been a great relief to the families. However, many of those released described torture and starvation at the hands of the Israeli prisons and some had had limbs amputated as a result, several were hospitalised. Regardless of the rarely reported fact that many of those incarcerated were held under administrative detention, such treatment of any prisoner is yet another violation of international law. Being held under administrative detention means no charge or trial; furthermore when there are trials, they take place within a Military Court system with a record of finding 99% of those accused to be guilty.
The double standards, notably in press and western politicians’ commentary is enraging and also helps perpetuate injustice. Meantime Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal has officially ended even as Hamas keeps saying it is ready to restart negotiations.
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This article was originally published by The New Arab on Thu 27 Feb 2025. Read the original here.
Hundreds of freed Palestinian captives show signs of abuse and starvation
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Melanie Schweizer, the politician quoted in this article, was a candidate in the German elections for the small party MERA25, part of Yanis Varoufakis’ DiEM25 movement.
She has been employed as a civil service lawyer in the German Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs. Last week, she was dismissed from the civil service because of her online comments critical of Israel.
Prisoner/hostage release has been notable for at least two things shown by MSM: i) Palestinians released were visibly in poor state, with evidence of torture and mistreatment but Israelis released looked well in the main. ii) News coverage focussed on distraught Israeli family confected (?) reaction to their people’s condition, transmitting a lot of footage supplied by Israelis in their homes, while reportage of the condition of Palestinians released (eventually) was very sparse.
To complain that the Israelis released were looking a bit peckish, when all Gaza was being starved by good old Israel was an irony supreme.