Most Palestinians who've been rounded up since Oct. 7 are incarcerated without due process or contact with the outside world, Israeli human rights organizations say. Israel denies abusing detainees.
Palestinian detainees after they were released by the Israeli army, in Deir Al Balah, Gaza Strip, on June 20.
According to Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Abu Salah is one of more than 3,000 Palestinians who have been rounded up from the Gaza Strip since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The militants killed 1,200 people in Israel that day and took some 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. Israel has been on heightened national security alert ever since.
Initially, she says, the amended law said detainees could be held for 180 days before seeing a lawyer. That was lowered in May to 90 days. Still, Montell notes, that’s a long time.HaMoked and other Israeli human rights groups have appealed to the country’s Supreme Court to provide better due process for prisoners from Gaza, and for more information about them. Montell says before Oct. 7, the Israeli military would confirm whether someone was being detained and where they were being held.
“It's not even a prison in the sense that there are no cells, there are no beds, it's just cages,” she says. Neither the prison officers nor the soldiers have been trained to hold the detainees, she says.Sattath’s group has been collecting testimonies from Israeli doctors working at Sde Teiman, as well as from former prisoners, about the conditions there. Some ex-prisoners reported being held in diapers, she says.
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