Sde Teiman: What are the abuses alleged to have taken place in Israeli prison?
On Tuesday, dozens of Israelis stormed Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel's Negev desert.
They gathered in response to the arrest of nine soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner. But rather than directing their anger at the soldiers suspected of the abuse, these far-right Israelis, who included MPs and a minister, were outraged that they had been arrested at all.
For many in Israel and beyond, the riot and further protests at a military courthouse symbolise the crossing of a moral event horizon, but the civil strife is just a backdrop to the litany of abuses alleged to have been carried out at Sde Teiman detention facility.
About 4,000 Palestinians have been detained from Gaza in Israel since October 2023. Most are detained and interrogated in the enclave but if they are believed to have useful information they are brought to Sde Teiman, even if a non-combatant.
Torture, rape and murder have all been reported as rife at the facility, one of several facilities where Palestinians have been mistreated for decades.
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