10 Israeli soldiers detained for abusing Gazan detainee at Sde Teiman Prison

Ten Israeli soldiers were arrested for abusing a Palestinian detainee from the Gaza Strip at the Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert in southern Israel, according to Israeli media on Monday.

Israeli public broadcaster, KAN said confrontations erupted after Military Police investigators arrived at the detention facility to detain the soldiers, Anadolu Agency reports.

A security source said the Palestinian detainee was taken to a hospital with severe injuries to an intimate body part, which left him without the ability to walk.

According to Israel’s Army Radio, 10 soldiers were detained for questioning as part of an investigation into the abuses against the Palestinian detainee.

Several reports emerged of severe abuses against Palestinian detainees at the notorious facility since the start of Israel’s ongoing offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Currently, Israel’s Supreme Court is considering a petition filed by Israeli human rights organisations to close the Sde Teiman prison, where Palestinian detainees from Gaza face torture and medical neglect.

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The Israeli army is believed to have detained thousands of Palestinians, including women, children and medics since 7 October, 2023.

In recent months, the army has released dozens of Palestinian detainees from Gaza in deteriorating health conditions, with their bodies bearing torture scars.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since a 7 October, 2023 attack by Hamas.

More than 39,360 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 90,900 injured, according to local health authorities.

Over nine months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on 6 May.

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