GENEVA: The UN Palestinian refugee company (UNRWA) mentioned a few of its employees members and different individuals detained by Israeli forces in Gaza had been subjected to ill-treatment, together with extreme beatings and being pressured to strip bare.
In a report printed on Tuesday, UNRWA mentioned that employees that had been detained, in some circumstances whereas performing official duties, had been “held incommunicado and subjected to the identical circumstances and ill-treatment as different detainees,” which it mentioned included a number of totally different types of abuse.
The company mentioned employees members had mentioned they had been subjected to beatings and therapy akin to waterboarding, threats of rape and electrocution, and had been pressured to strip bare, amongst different types of ill-treatment.
“UNRWA has made official protests to the Israeli authorities concerning the reported therapy of Company employees members whereas they had been in Israeli detention facilities,” it mentioned. “UNRWA has not acquired any response to those protests to this point.”
The Israeli army has mentioned it acts in accordance with Israeli and worldwide legislation and people it arrests get entry to meals, water, treatment and correct clothes. The army didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the claims within the UNRWA report.
The USA was “deeply involved” and would press Israel for a full investigation on the allegations and accountability for any perpetrators, State Division deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel mentioned when requested concerning the report on Wednesday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society has mentioned Israel refuses to reveal data on the variety of individuals from Gaza it has detained over the previous six months, or on the place they’re being held.
UNRWA has documented the discharge of 1,506 detainees from Gaza, together with 43 kids and 84 girls, by the Israeli authorities via the Kerem Shalom crossing as of April 4.
The freed detainees had been subjected to “insults and humiliation comparable to being made to behave like animals or getting urinated on, use of loud music and noise, deprivation of water, meals, sleep and bathrooms, denial of the precise to wish and extended use of tightly locked handcuffs inflicting open wounds and friction accidents,” in accordance with UNRWA.
“Detainees had been threatened with extended detention, harm or the killing of relations if they didn’t present requested data,” UNRWA mentioned.
“In most reported detention incidents, the IDF pressured males, together with kids, to strip all the way down to their underwear. UNRWA additionally documented at the least one event the place males sheltering in an UNRWA set up had been pressured to strip bare and had been detained whereas bare.”
Israel’s army operation in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault, which by its tallies killed 1,200 with 253 taken hostage.
The next bombardment has killed greater than 33,000 Palestinians, in accordance with Palestinian medics, displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals and brought about a grave humanitarian disaster.
In a report printed on Tuesday, UNRWA mentioned that employees that had been detained, in some circumstances whereas performing official duties, had been “held incommunicado and subjected to the identical circumstances and ill-treatment as different detainees,” which it mentioned included a number of totally different types of abuse.
The company mentioned employees members had mentioned they had been subjected to beatings and therapy akin to waterboarding, threats of rape and electrocution, and had been pressured to strip bare, amongst different types of ill-treatment.
“UNRWA has made official protests to the Israeli authorities concerning the reported therapy of Company employees members whereas they had been in Israeli detention facilities,” it mentioned. “UNRWA has not acquired any response to those protests to this point.”
The Israeli army has mentioned it acts in accordance with Israeli and worldwide legislation and people it arrests get entry to meals, water, treatment and correct clothes. The army didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the claims within the UNRWA report.
The USA was “deeply involved” and would press Israel for a full investigation on the allegations and accountability for any perpetrators, State Division deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel mentioned when requested concerning the report on Wednesday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society has mentioned Israel refuses to reveal data on the variety of individuals from Gaza it has detained over the previous six months, or on the place they’re being held.
UNRWA has documented the discharge of 1,506 detainees from Gaza, together with 43 kids and 84 girls, by the Israeli authorities via the Kerem Shalom crossing as of April 4.
The freed detainees had been subjected to “insults and humiliation comparable to being made to behave like animals or getting urinated on, use of loud music and noise, deprivation of water, meals, sleep and bathrooms, denial of the precise to wish and extended use of tightly locked handcuffs inflicting open wounds and friction accidents,” in accordance with UNRWA.
“Detainees had been threatened with extended detention, harm or the killing of relations if they didn’t present requested data,” UNRWA mentioned.
“In most reported detention incidents, the IDF pressured males, together with kids, to strip all the way down to their underwear. UNRWA additionally documented at the least one event the place males sheltering in an UNRWA set up had been pressured to strip bare and had been detained whereas bare.”
Israel’s army operation in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault, which by its tallies killed 1,200 with 253 taken hostage.
The next bombardment has killed greater than 33,000 Palestinians, in accordance with Palestinian medics, displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals and brought about a grave humanitarian disaster.
