Torture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp

Aug 14, 2024

Israel鈥檚 Channel 12 recently broadcast , a secret Israeli detention center that , where prisoners are being . Israel has held hundreds of Palestinian prisoners at the center since October 2023, and the footage shows dozens of Palestinian men lying face down on the ground while Israeli soldiers pick one out and lead him to an area where they appear to sexually violate him.聽聽

It is thought that this footage corroborates recent allegations of a gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman. The suspected perpetrators of that attack have been placed under . In July the Israel-based human rights group B鈥橳selem documented widespread torture and rape at the facility in

While U.S. news media extensively covered alleged sexual abuses by Hamas forces on Oct. 7, 2023, with scant evidence, there has been far less coverage of the documented sexual abuse and torture of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.

Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, spoke with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about Israel鈥檚 ongoing project of genocide.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.