U.S. decries reported sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners after graphic video aired on Israeli TV

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U.S. decries reported ******* ****** of ************ prisoners after graphic video aired on ******** TV

Palestinians inspect residential buildings, destroyed in ******** strikes during the conflict, amid a temporary truce between ******* and the ************ Islamist group ******, in southern Gaza City on Nov. 26, 2023.

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Allegations of the ******* ****** of 

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 by members of the ******** military are “horrific,” the ******* States has said, after a graphic video broadcast on ******** news added fuel to 

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 of the U.S. ally’s 

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Earlier this week, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller responded to a question about a video shown on *******’s Channel 12, the country’s most watched commercial station, that alleged to 

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 of a ************ man at Sde Teiman, a military facility where thousands of 

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 since October.

“We have seen the video, and reports of ******* ****** of detainees are horrific,” Miller said, adding that the reports should be “fully” investigated by the ******** government.

“There ought to be zero tolerance for ******* ******, ***** of any detainee, *******,” he added.

The White House also called the reports of 

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 “deeply, deeply concerning.”

Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre added: “We have been clear and consistent with ******* that it must treat all detainees humanely and with dignity in accordance with international law, must respect detainees’ human rights, and must ensure accountability for any abuses or violations.”

It was the first time that U.S. officials had referred to the video allegedly showing ******* ********. 

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NBC News has not confirmed details of the reported ****** or if the video circulating was of that incident, but the allegations came out amid a roiling controversy over the treatment of ************ detainees that was sparked in July, when the ******** military 

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 with aggravated ****** and opened an inquiry into nine other soldiers over allegations of mistreating a ************ detainee.

A doctor at Sde Teiman interviewed by the ******** newspaper Haaretz 

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 at the severity of the man’s injuries.

On Thursday, the ******* Defense Forces confirmed that five soldiers remain in detention for allegations of “serious ******,” and the investigation is ongoing.

“The military court accepted the request of the military prosecution in its entirety and stated in its decision that the evidence shows a reasonable suspicion of the commission of the acts,” it said in a written statement.

‘Gang ******* *********’ 

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 released Monday by B’Tselem, a Jerusalem-based ******** human rights group, alleged there was “repeated use of ******* *********, in varying degrees of severity, by soldiers or prison guards against ************ detainees as an additional punitive measure,” citing witnesses who described “blows to the genitals,” “the use of metal tools and batons to cause ******** pain,” and “cases of gang ******* ********* and ******** committed by a group of prison guards or soldiers.”

One detainee cited by B’Tselem described an attempt by a member of the ******* Prison Service’s Initial Reaction Force to ********* him with a carrot, while others recorded the act on their cellphones.

“I screamed in pain and *******,” the testimony read. “It went on like that for about three minutes.” The detainee, who was taken into custody in 2022, said the incident occurred on Oct. 29, 2023.

The detentions have spiked since ******’ Oct. 7 ******* ******* on ******* that left 1,200 *****, and saw 240 kidnapped, some of whom are believed to have been 

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. Since the beginning of the war in Gaza triggered by ******’ incursion, some 40,000 Palestinians have been *******, according to the enclave’s health officials, many thousand more have been injured and an overwhelming majority of the strip’s population driven from their homes.

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 released in April by the ******* Nations’ agency for ************ aid, UNRWA, also detailed cases of ******* ****** by ******** forces against detainees, including sodomizing them with “something like a hot metal stick.”

In May, the U.N. special rapporteur on ********, Alice Jill Edwards, called on ******* to investigate ******** and other inhumane treatment, including ******* ******, of ************ detainees.

“How we treat others during moments of crisis is a sign of how much we have internalized human rights,” Edwards said. “No circumstances, however exceptional, can ever justify ******** or ill-treatment.”

According to the U.N., 

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, including children, have been 

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 by ******* since the start of the war on Oct. 7, and at least 53 have *****. The ************ prisoners commission, an organization that is part of the ************ Authority and is based in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, estimated that there were about 9,900 Palestinians in ******** prisons as of the beginning of August.

Data from the 

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 cited by B’Tselem says there were 3,615 Palestinians in administrative detention as of March. In addition to the IPS, the ******** military also holds detainees, and when asked how many Palestinians have been arrested since Oct. 7, the IDF told NBC News it had “no comment.”

The ******** army intervene Palestinians with tear gas canisters in front of Ofer Prison, who were waiting for the prisoners scheduled to be released today as part of the 4-day humanitarian pause begins for prisoner exchange and aid in Ramallah, Gaza on November 24, 2023.

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‘Everything is legitimate’

Shortly after ******** authorities announced on July 29 they had detained reservists for allegedly abusing prisoners, hundreds of people 

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 in front of Sde Teiman and Beit Lid, where the soldiers are believed to be held, to protest their detention.

While the arrest of the reservists had brought this case to wider attention, B’Tselem argued that the ****** of ************ detainees is systemic in ******** prisons.

In a heated meeting of lawmakers in July, a parliamentarian asked if it was legitimate “to insert a stick into a person’s *******?” 

“Yes!” lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky, of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, shouted in reply. If the detainee is a ****** militant, he said, “Everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”

Netanyahu has not publicly addressed Milwidsky’s comments, and his office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on these or the case overall. The prime minister also hasn’t commented on the alleged ****** except for calling for calm amid protests against the arrests of the ******** reservists, and condemning those who broke into a base believed to be holding them.

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