RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 07, 2024 (WAFA) – Following a video footage showing the moment soldiers in an infamous detention facility raped a Palestinian detainee, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) renewed today its call for the United Nations to conduct an impartial international investigation into the systematic torture of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.

Commenting on the viral video showing nine Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian detained in the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre, the PPS demanded international bodies investigating the matter ask for the recordings of surveillance cameras in Israeli detention facilities, which would certainly expose more evidence and testimony-based horrendous crimes against prisoners.

It added that this crime is one of many rape crimes perpetrated by the occupation soldiers against Palestinian detainees from Gaza, specifically at the Sde Teiman center, which testifies to the crimes of torture against Palestinian prisoners based on the testimonies of recently released detainees and the limited visits conducted by several institutions.

The PPS explained that the rape crime documented by the footage demonstrates that the occupation authorities have more visual evidence on all the crimes against detainees in Sde Teiman center and other detention centers.

It slammed the occupation authorities’ recurrent talk about the intention to open investigations and hold the soldiers involved in the rape crime in the Sde Teiman camp accountable as an exposed attempt to evade any international investigation in this matter.

It pointed out that since the onset of the Israeli genocidal war on the Strip, the occupation has continued to deny the International Committee of the Red Cross any visit to the detainees practiced forced disappearance against the majority of the detainees from Gaza.

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