Terrible stories from “Sadi Timan” prison; A place worse than Guantanamo.
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, although the torture of Palestinian prisoners in the prisons of the Zionist regime is considered normal, but in the days after the October 7 operation of 2023, tortures were carried out against Palestinians in some prisons of the Zionist regime, which even The voice of the Zionists has also been heard.
Al Jazeera writes in a report in this regard that one of these prisons is known as “Sadi Timan” prison, which is located in a military base in the Negev desert and in the distance It has been established 30 kilometers from the Gaza Strip towards the city of Beersheba. This prison was established immediately after the Al-Aqsa storm operation, and many people who were detained in Gaza, including women, children, and the elderly, were transferred to this prison.
Legal and media reports show that the Zionist soldiers in this prison commit heinous attacks against the detained Palestinians and do not torture, insult or humiliate the surrendered Palestinians. they do not.
Before this, some Zionist media, including Haaretz newspaper, revealed aspects of these tortures, and some time later, other media and legal reports also revealed other aspects of these crimes. Discovered.
Since the beginning of the invasion of Gaza, the Zionist army has turned 3 of its military centers into detention centers for Palestinians, only one of which is Sedi Timan prison and Anatot and Ofer bases. In the West Bank, they form two other cases.
According to the reports of the people released from this Zionist prison, this center was established in the heart of the Negev desert and in a remote and remote area compared to the residential areas and a completely separate area from It is the outside world.
Khaled Mohajneh, a Palestinian lawyer who visited this prison, previously told Al Jazeera that although he has seen many Israeli prisons, he has never seen such a prison. has not seen This prison is more like a military barracks and soldiers are present in every corner of the prison.
He says that in each room of this prison, more than 100 prisoners live in inhuman conditions and without the smallest necessities for life.
Official investigations about the prison and the testimony of 36 people in it
According to the statistics released by the Zionist army, more than 700 people are incarcerated in this prison, and according to Hebrew sources, so far more than 36 Prisoners were martyred there, most of them from Gaza. Some estimates report that there are more than 1,000 people in this prison, and others believe that there are thousands of people in this prison.
At the beginning of June of this year, the Supreme Court of the Zionist regime for the first time put on its agenda the investigation of the closure of Sedi Timan prison, and it was decided that a gradual investigation regarding Interrogations and tortures should be carried out in this prison.
Anir Hillman, the representative of the Israeli prosecutor’s office, announced that 700 Palestinian detainees have been transferred from this prison to the Ofer military prison, and another 500 are expected to be transferred. become
In the intrusive interrogation of the Zionist regime’s military inspectors from this prison, shocking aspects of the torture of prisoners were revealed, but the suspects denied being involved in these tortures. . Also, some extremist elements of the Zionist regime also condemned this investigation. This approach is also present among many members of the cabinet and parliament, including Itmar Ben Guer, the Minister of Internal Security of the Zionist regime. Amihai Eliyahu, Minister of Cultural Heritage of the Zionist regime, is also one of the opponents of this investigation, who also participated in yesterday’s attack on the military barracks. Zafi Sukot from the Religious Zionist Party and Nissim Faturi from Likud were members of the Israeli Parliament who participated in this attack.
Some legal and media sources and their reports state that Palestinian prisoners in this prison are subjected to all kinds of torture and humiliation. From the testimonies of Palestinian witnesses, the following cases of torture have been confirmed:
* Continuous handcuffing of prisoners that in some cases, prisoners suffer amputations due to the effects and injuries caused by prison shackles.
* Humiliation and violation of the rights of prisoners and their sexual torture.
* Spreading unpleasant smells in the prison and locking prisoners in tight spaces and preventing them from talking to each other.
* Forcing prisoners to stand for long hours and beating them with batons.
*Abandoning the injured and not treating them.
* The use of wild dogs during interrogation and the use of large numbers of armed soldiers.
* It is only possible to use the restroom for one minute, and anyone who stays in the restroom longer than this time will be subjected to torture, sexual assault, and beating. Takes.
* Prohibition of bathing: Each person is only allowed to bathe for one minute during the week.
* Starving them and depriving them of enough food.
*Lack of bedding and sheets for prisoners
* Preventing prisoners from praying and performing religious duties.
Terrible stories of prisoners
At the same time as the media investigation about this prison in different media of the world is peaking, the American newspaper Washington Post in a report that includes interviews with 11 Palestinian prisoners and a number of lawyers Prisoners and autopsy reports are available, it enumerates dimensions of torture used in this prison.
This newspaper adds that one of the Palestinian prisoners was martyred as a result of a ruptured spleen and broken body parts due to the beating of the Zionist guards. Another prisoner died while suffering from a chronic disease and was not treated and another one of them asked for help for several hours before he died.
Human rights reports show that sanitary conditions in overcrowded prisons are dire, and Palestinian prisoners are subjected to daily beatings and threats with wild dogs. . They are deprived of access to adequate food and health care and are subjected to physical and psychological humiliation.
Shabak head Ronin Bar has warned in a letter to the prisons of the Zionist regime about international legal measures against Israel due to the mistreatment of prisoners. In this letter, he wrote that the Israeli prison system was designed for 14,500 people, but it currently houses more than 21,000 people, which is apart from the 2,500 prisoners from Gaza, most of whom are imprisoned in military barracks.
According to the statements of the Palestinian prisoners, 23-year-old Abd al-Rahman Hebash was one of the Palestinian prisoners who died in the Israeli prison as a result of a severe beating by the guards. . The autopsy of Hebash’s body shows severe injuries on the right side of the chest and the left side of the abdomen, and several parts of his body were fractured and his spleen was also ruptured, which was probably the result of a beating. Infections caused by these injuries and respiratory failure have been mentioned as possible signs of the death of this Palestinian prisoner three weeks after his brutal torture.
33-year-old Abd al-Rahman al-Maari is another Palestinian prisoner who was martyred in the Zionist prison. In his autopsy, bruises on the left side of the chest and fractures of the chest and body organs were observed, and many bruises were also seen on his back, thighs, and left arm. Mohammad Al-Sabar is another one of these prisoners who died as a result of injecting an ampoule in prison.
Mozaze Obayat is another Palestinian prisoner who, although he got out of these prisons alive, he didn’t even know his own age or the age of his children when he left. He doesn’t remember anything other than prison, even though he was a bodybuilder. She says that the prison guards sexually assaulted her with a broom. He describes Sedi Timan prison as Guantanamo of the Zionist regime.