The Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group hosted an online briefing on Tuesday 26 March at 1pm, on the severe escalation in torture of Palestinians, with Adalah and Addameer. Representatives from Adalah, Addameer and War on Want spoke about the surge in torture and other abuse perpetrated by Israeli personnel against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and detention centres in Israel, as documented by UN experts and Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations. Sahar Francis, General Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Attorney Nareman Shehadeh-Zoabi, lawyer at Adalah's Civil and Political Rights Department, and Neil Sammonds, War on Want’s senior campaigner on Palestine, spoke at the briefing chaired by Tommy Sheppard MP.
See this two page brief produced by War on Want and Caabu ahead of the parliamentary briefing: Tackling the severe escalation in Israel’s torture of Palestinians.
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UN experts and Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations have documented a surge in torture and other abuse perpetrated by Israeli personnel against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and detention centres in Israel. Torture of Palestinians, including children, in Israeli custody was common long before 7 October but now appears to be the norm.
Four Israel-based NGOs including Adalah have made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torturedocumenting a “severe escalation” in the abuse of detained Palestinians and of actions needed to end it. Addameer, based in the occupied West Bank, reported on 11 deaths in custody in just four months. The actual figure may be much higher.
