Israel using ‘enforced disappearance’ to cover up torture of Gaza abductees: Rights group
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has warned against Israel’s continued “forced disappearance” of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
Marking the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, the prisoners’ rights group said Tel Aviv is using enforced disappearance as a cover for systematic torture of detainees, with dozens being killed in custody.
It said rights groups still face major challenges in determining the fate of many Palestinians abducted from Gaza since Israel launched its genocidal war on the territory on October 7, 2023.
Some cases have been uncovered through petitions and limited prison visits, where rights organizations documented “unprecedented brutality.”
Testimonies detail “systematic torture from the moment of arrest to imprisonment, leading to the deaths of detainees,” PPS said.
Israel has also withheld the bodies of those killed, refusing to provide information about them.
The group pointed to military camps such as Sde Teiman, as well as Ofer, Anatot, and other facilities, where abducted Palestinians are held in secretive conditions and subjected to widespread abuse.
UN human rights experts have also raised alarm over the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at Israel’s US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The UN received reports of several individuals, including one child, who were forcibly disappeared while seeking aid at a GHF distribution site in Gaza.
“Reports of enforced disappearances targeting starving civilians seeking their basic right to food are not only shocking, but amount to torture,” the experts said.
Defense for Children International (DCI) also documented the disappearances of five Palestinian boys while seeking aid.
The group said Israeli forces are “shooting, detaining, and disappearing Palestinian children … refusing to disclose the numbers, names, and whereabouts of children from Gaza in military custody, who have had no contact with the outside world.”
Meanwhile, gunfire and attacks around the GHF facilities continue to cause mass casualties. From May 27 to July 31, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reported 859 Palestinian deaths in the vicinity of the distribution sites.
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