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Israel begins gradually closing military prison for Palestinians captured during Gaza war

Israel has begun the gradual closure of a military detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war. Various human rights groups and even Israeli medical authorities have reported that abuses are committed against prisoners in these facilities, as confirmed by judicial sources this Wednesday. State lawyers confirmed to the Supreme Court that prisoners held in Sde Teiman prison will be transferred to permanent detention centers. This military prison was inaugurated around the city of Beersheba in southern Israel after a Hamas attack on October 7. The transfers have already begun and are expected to last about two weeks.

State attorney Aner Helman, responding to a petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, told the court that 700 prisoners had already been transferred to Ofer, an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank. Another 500 will be released in the coming weeks, although there are 200 prisoners in Sde Teiman whose future has not yet been decided.

According to figures published by the local press last March, 27 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli jails during the current conflict. According to these media, some of them may have died in Sde Steiman.

An Israeli doctor warned in March about the conditions in which his country’s authorities keep detainees at Sde Teiman. “Just this week, two prisoners’ legs were amputated due to injuries sustained during restraint, which, unfortunately, occurs on a regular basis,” he denounced in a letter sent to those responsible for defense, health and justice in Israel, according to the newspaper. Haaretz,

The UN, without mentioning the specific names of the prisons, has collected testimonies from some detainees in recent months when they were returned to Gaza. According to Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), they are stripped naked, loaded into trucks with their eyes covered, treated inhumanely while cut off from communication and subjected to torture such as being attacked by dogs, beaten and having their heads submerged in water to simulate that they are about to drown. (Reuters)