Marking the UN’s international day in support of victims of torture, a Palestinian prisoners’ rights group has accused Israeli forces of practising the “harshest forms of torture” on people detained in Gaza and bragging about their abuse.
Addameer, a Ramallah-based prisoners’ rights group, shared a series of posts on social media, which contain video clips from Israeli soldiers “openly sharing their torture of Palestinian detainees on social media to brag about their actions”.
“Due to the lack of accountability for the occupying state’s crimes over the years, soldiers deliberately document their acts of torture against Palestinian detainees and post these videos and photos on their personal social media accounts,” the rights group said.
The group warns that the scenes depicted in the video clips are disturbing.
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