GENEVA, Friday, March 8, 2024 (WAFA) - Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, announced today that she is examining information concerning the torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli occupation forces. 

Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council meetings in Geneva, Edwards stated that she has recently received reports of torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank or during the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.

She added, "I am currently examining and conducting an investigation to uncover the facts."

The Human Rights Office reported multiple accounts of mass arrests, mistreatment, and enforced disappearances of Palestinians in northern Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces, with thousands being detained in the West Bank.

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