Gaza ministry of detainees calls for Sde Teiman to be shut down

The Gaza ministry of detainees has said that the abuses at Sde Teiman, where nine Israeli soldiers are alleged to have raped a Palestinian detainee, are systemic and enacted as a form of revenge for the Hamas-led attack on 7 October.

In a statement the ministry said that the detention of the soldiers was “charade intended to show that these violations are individual ones carried out by a few bad apples”.

“The truth is that what is happening is systematic torture that has led to several deaths of detainees,” the ministry said, calling for the centre to be shut down.

“The prisoners are being subject to torture, assault and humiliation not because they are suspected of any wrong-doing but as a form of revenge for the October 7 attacks.”