Palestinians say they suffered brutal beating and sexual abuse in Israeli custody, and Israeli settlers testified about their trials in the United Nations this week.
In November 2023, a 28 -year -old nurse was detained near Al -Shafa Hospital in Gaza City, where he worked, “said Abdul Fattah, 28 -year -old nurse Abdul Fattah,” I was subjected to humiliation and torture. “
Prior to the hearing, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Daniel Marvin, dismissed them as a waste of time, saying that Israel had investigated and prosecuted any allegations of wrongdoing by its forces.
Fatah testified to a public hearing from a video link from Gaza through a spokesperson.
He explained that in the next two months, the cold, suffering from suffering, rape threats and other abuses threats, when it was closed between crowded detention facilities.
He endured in January 2024, “I was like a punching bag.”
Investigator, he said, “I kept hitting my penis … I was bleeding everywhere, I was bleeding from my penis, I was bleeding from my anus.
“I felt like my soul [left] My body “
‘Shock’
Fatah spoke on Tuesday in connection with public hearings organized by the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.
This week’s hearings, which Israel has strongly criticized, focuses on allegations of “sexual and reproductive violence” by Israeli security forces and settlers.
“That’s important,” said Chris Sudoti, a member of the COI, hosting the meeting. AFP.
He said those who have been “entitled to listen”.
Experts and supporters on Tuesday talked about the “systematic” trend of sexual violence against Palestinians in detention, but also after the Hamas attacks in Hamas on October 7, 2023, in Israel, in the posts and other settings in Gaza.
For Israel, Marvin criticized the allegations against individual Israeli “shocking … against Israeli hostages, October 7, trying to equalize” surprising … sexual violence “towards the victims.
He told reporters on Monday that such a comparison was “condemnable”.
He insisted that the hearings were “wasting time”, as Israel would investigate and prosecute any mistakes as a “law -abiding country”.
But Palestinian lawyer Sahar Francis decided a clear reduction in accountability, and alleged that the abuse had become a “widespread policy”.
He said that all the people arrested from Gaza were searched for a strip, he said, “In some cases,” pushing the sticks “with the soldiers in the prison of the prisoner.
He said sexual exploitation “is very massive” especially in the first months of the fight.
“I think you can say that most of those arrested in those months were subjected to such exercises.”
‘Just shoot me’
The allegations of abuse are not limited to detention centers.
The West Bank resident Mohammad Matar said he suffered for hours by security agents and settlers, even Israeli police refused to intervene.
A few days after the October 7 attack, they and other Palestinian activists went to help protect the Badwin community facing settlements attacking settlers.
When he was leaving the compound, he was chased and a group of settlers chased him, which he said, including members of the Israeli Shabbat Security Agency.
He and two others were blindfolded, their underwear was stripped and their hands were tied before going to a nearby stability.
The leader said, “The leader was standing on my head and ordered me to eat… sheep’s feet.”
With dozens of nearby settlers, the man urinated on all three, and during the abuse of about 12 hours, he was badly beaten by Matar: “Just shoot me in the head”.
He said, the man jumped on his back and repeatedly “tried to introduce a stick to my anus”.
With tears blinking, Matar showed a picture to Sudoti by the settlers, showing that the three -eyed men were dirt in their underwear.
Other photos taken after the trial showed it with massive injuries throughout the body.
Talking to reporters after his testimony, he said he had spent months “in a state of psychological trauma”.
“I didn’t think there were people on the earth who had ugly, sad and cruel.”
