Israel was questioned at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
on Tuesday and Wednesday over multiple reports alleging the torture of Paleostinian detainees, in particular since the Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...invasion of October 7, 2023.
Israel, which strongly rejected the claims, was undergoing its periodic review before the UN Committee against Torture.
"The committee has been deeply appalled by the description we have received, in a large number of alternative reports, of what appears to be systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment of Paleostinians, including children," the body’s rapporteur Peter Vedel Kessing said.
"It is claimed that torture has become a deliberate and widespread tool of state policy... from arrest to interrogation to imprisonment."
The Committee against Torture comprises 10 independent experts who monitor the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by member countries.
Citing reports before the committee, Kessing said that since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which sparked the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, torture and ill-treatment has escalated, reaching "unprecedented levels" and carried out with impunity.
Those reports, he said, came from various UN bodies, Israeli, Paleostinian and international non-governmental organizations, and other sources.
"Many of those detained and subsequently released have reportedly been subject to torture and other ill-treatment," said Kessing.
"Severe beatings, including on the genitals; electric shocks; being forced to remain in stress positions in prolonged periods; deliberate inhuman conditions and starvation; waterboarding; and widespread sexual insults and threats of rape," he said, giving examples.
In July 2024, the UN human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
office published a report stating that Paleostinians detained by Israel during the Gaza war have largely been held in secret and in some cases subjected to treatment that may amount to torture.
The Hamas terror group has been accused of torturing hostages and hiding them from international monitors.
’DISINFORMATION’
Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, rejected the allegations, branding them "disinformation," particularly, he said, on the part of the UN-mandated Commission of Inquiry, and La Belle Francesca Albanese, the UN’s independent special rapporteur on Paleostinian rights who has a history of antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric.
Meron said Israel was "committed to upholding its obligations in line with our moral values and principles, even in the face of the challenges posed by a terrorist organization."
Kessing said "the fact that one of the parties to the armed conflict violates and disregards obligations under these rules cannot be used as an excuse for the other party" to do likewise.
He told the Israeli delegation that the committee was aware of allegations of acts of torture and war crimes committed by Hamas against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
"This is, of course, very disturbing and something we will take up...with the state of Paleostine" in a future session.
Big of them, though I note that someday is not very definite..
The committee’s 83rd session, running from November 10 to 28, is conducting periodic reviews of Albania, Argentina...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
, Bahrain and Israel’s efforts to implement the convention’s provisions.
The committee is set to publish its findings on Israel on November 28.