Palestinian prisoner raped by Israeli soldiers in prison

Reports on Monday said that Israeli soldiers raped a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert.

Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported, citing a security source, that the prisoner was taken to hospital with serious injuries to a private part of his body and was unable to walk.

According to KAN, Israeli police investigators arrived at the detention center to arrest the soldiers involved in the rape.

According to Israeli Army Radio, ten soldiers were arrested for questioning as part of the investigation into the brutal abuses.

Since the start of Israel’s ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, several reports have emerged of severe mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners in the notorious facility.

Israel’s Supreme Court is currently considering a request by Israeli human rights organizations to close Sde Teiman prison, where Palestinian prisoners from Gaza are subjected to torture and medical neglect.

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

In recent months, the army has released dozens of Palestinian prisoners from Gaza whose health was deteriorating and whose bodies bore scars from torture.

Extremist Israelis protest against imprisonment of accused soldiers

Far-right Israeli demonstrators stormed a military base in central Israel on Monday to protest the arrest of soldiers accused of raping the Palestinian prisoner.

Protesters closed the military police base in the town of Beit Lid where the soldiers are being held for questioning, Army Radio reported.

According to the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, masked soldiers in military uniforms took part in the protest.

Israel has ignored a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and is facing international criticism for its ongoing brutal offensive on Gaza since the attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, 2023.

According to local health authorities, more than 39,360 Palestinians have been killed since then, mostly women and children, and nearly 91,000 injured.

More than nine months after the start of Israel’s war, large parts of the Gaza Strip lie in ruins and are plagued by a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice, whose recent ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its military operations in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before the May 6 invasion.