Israel’s Channel 12 recently broadcast disturbing footage from Sde Teiman, a secret Israeli detention center that many have likened to a concentration camp, where prisoners are being tortured. Israel has held hundreds of Palestinian prisoners at the center since October 2023, and the footage shows dozens of Palestinian men lying face down on the ground while Israeli soldiers pick one out and lead him to an area where they appear to sexually violate him.
It is thought that this footage corroborates recent allegations of a gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman. The suspected perpetrators of that attack have been placed under house arrest. In July the Israel-based human rights group B’Tselem documented widespread torture and rape at the facility in a damning report called “Welcome to Hell.”
While U.S. news media extensively covered alleged sexual abuses by Hamas forces on Oct. 7, 2023, with scant evidence, there has been far less coverage of the documented sexual abuse and torture of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.
Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about Israel’s ongoing project of genocide.