Al-Dameer Association for Prisoner Care and Human Rights revealed, Monday, that Israeli occupation investigators practiced cruel and violent torture against 40 prisoners, against the background of the "Ain Boubin" operation, west of Ramallah, which took place last August, and was killed It has an Israeli settlement.
The director of the conscience institution, Sahar Francis, said during a press conference held by several human rights organizations at the headquarters of the conscience institution on Monday: "The conscience institution was subject to the order of publication imposed by the occupation authorities, because there are people accused of carrying out the (Ain Boubin) operation, and events continued to prevent publication of what is going on in the investigation It turns out that the goal is not to expose torture methods, with the complicity of the courts and the Israeli judiciary in the torture crimes that took place.
Francis added: "Al-Dameer Association accompanied more than 40 of the detainees, who found that 95% of them were subjected to all forms of torture in different ways and periods, and it was found that not everyone has anything to do with military activities, and there are many detainees who were students, political activists and human rights defenders, within An attempt to criminalize all peaceful action. "
Francis said: "The investigation of the detainees is now finished and indictments have been presented to them, but the occupation announced last week that a cell existed and published the charges before the indictments were presented." And the link between political action and what they call terrorism in an attempt to criminalize Palestinian society and political prosecution against Jarrar. "
Francis pointed out that the most important prominent issue is that of the prisoner Samer Arbid from the city of Ramallah, who was arrested on September 25, and within less than 48 hours, Samer was transferred to a difficult health condition to Hadassah Hospital, and the family was not informed until Saturday, when the occupation feared The possibility of Samer losing his life, and it turned out later that the report of the first hospital is the arrival of Samer in the presence of bruises in his body and 11 muscles of his ribs, and his muscles were broken down and this led to a kidney failure caused by violent beating. " There is scientific documentation of Samer´s case, which indicates the presence of medical complicity with what happened, moreover That conscience you can not get a picture of the state of Samer Medical.
Francis touched on what happened with the prisoner Qassam Al-Barghouthi from the town of Kober, north of Ramallah, where he was arrested using police dogs, and he was beaten when he was arrested on sensitive areas of his body and genital areas, and he was operated on, and in the investigation he was bleeding due to the operation as a result of pressure on Place of operation.
Francis indicated that even the students who were arrested, such as Mays Abu Ghosh, were not safe from torture, and the so-called "banana" method was used with her, beatings and violent torture, and the use of the squatting position in the form of a frog, and despite what happened with her, an indictment against her was presented against her My students at Birzeit University, while Francis called for local media to discuss what happened to counter the Israeli narrative that promoted the arrest of a military cell, and stressed that what is being done is aimed at chasing and criminalizing Palestinian society by pursuing all those who criticize or resist the occupation.
Moreover, Francis said: "The only file in which the conscience obtained a file that exposed a prisoner to torture and photographing his body is for the prisoner Walid Hanache from Ramallah," noting that the conscience is going to publish what happened with him after obtaining permission from his family.
She pointed out that Samer Arbid, when he was put on trial, told the judge that 30 hours ago he was being beaten continuously, but the judge extended his detention for 8 days at the same investigation team.
For his part, the official of the Amnesty International office in Jerusalem, Saleh Hijazi, said in a speech during the conference: "Torture is a crime against humanity if it is practiced widely and systematically, there is a clear policy by Israel on the ground," stressing that accountability is required, and that Opportunities for international justice have been strengthened recently after the decision of the International Criminal Prosecutor, which requires her to investigate directly these crimes.
As for the director of Al-Haq Shawan Jabareen, he said in a speech to him: "What happened with the detainees reminds us of what happened with the prisoners and their torture during the periods of the seventies, eighties and nineties, and what happened with Samer Arbid indicates that there was a trend of killing and the decision to liquidate Samer."
He pointed out that regardless of any allegations of any kind against the detainees, a crime was committed which is torture, stressing that no statements extracted in such a case should be taken in the shadow of a state that respects itself, but in Israel the judiciary and everyone is involved in a broad, systematic policy within the framework of Torture, while calling for raising the issue, especially with sufficient documents to raise the issue.
Jabareen touched on the prosecution of those who committed the crime of torture against the prisoners, and said: "The matter should not be limited to the international criminal. In the matter of torture in particular, the international judiciary (for every country) mostly criminalizes torture," while stressing the need to expose Israel´s practices not only in the local and Arab media It should go beyond the foreign media. Jabareen also pointed out that Israeli judges are part of a crime against humanity and must be pursued.
He pointed out that the majority of countries in the world have jurisdiction over torture crimes, while he pointed out that what happened with the detainees in the presence of court decisions, which indicates the existence of an official torture policy, and the prosecution may reach the leaders of the "Shin Bet", and Jabarin indicated that human rights institutions can To carry out this prosecution on behalf of the prisoners, within the framework of power of attorney from them.
During the conference, Francis presented the methods of torture to which the detainees were subjected, as well as psychological torture and the arrest of relatives to pressure the detainees, and that the ghost method called "banana" was used with all detainees, including Mais Abu Ghosh, in addition to the beard hair of some detainees.
"There is a noticeable and abusive matter that promotes sexual violence against some of the women prisoners, which is the use of personal information on WhatsApp to pressure detainees during the investigation period," said Francis.
