By New Age Islam Staff Writer
30 November
The Released Children Of West Bank Recount The Horror Of Their Captivity In Israeli Prisons
Main Points:
- The western media has not told their stories of pain and torture.
- The prisoners were beaten to death.
- Even old men were beaten to death in Israeli prisons.
- Most of them were put into jails for throwing stones.
- They were threatened not to celebrate their release.
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A Red Cross vehicle carrying released hostages drives towards the Rafah border point with Egypt on Nov. 28.Photographer: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images
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The Israel-Hamas war has exposed not only the hypocrisy of the Islamic world but also the hypocrisy of the West. The US and the UK present themselves as the flag bearers and upholders of human rights but this war has exposed their hypocrisy and proved that human rights is only a diplomatic and political tool for them. The US has long used this tool to further its political interests in the world. But it has killed millions of innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Vietnam for its military and political goals. It is now looking for an opportunity or alibi to destroy Syria, the last post of resistance in the Middle East. And to achieve its objective, it has destroyed a large part of the country and killed millions of civilians in the name of finishing off terrorist organisations active in the region.
In the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the US president Joe Biden has demonstrated his hypocrisy and allowed the Netanyahu government to carry on with the genocide of the Palestinians winning for himself the sobriquet of ‘Genocide Joe’. On the pretext of defending itself, Israel started bombarding Gaza and destroyed almost half of Gaza and rendered 75 per cent of people homeless.
Israel committed large scale violation of human rights and rules of war but the US president Joe Biden aka Genocide Joe pretended not to see. He ignored the slaughter of infants in hospitals by the IDF, cutting off electricity to the patients in the ICU and restricting medicine and treatment to them. The IDF dropped bombs on women and children gathered at Rafah border in the hope of exit The IDF bombed Al Ahli Hospital, Jenin refugee camp, Jabalia refugee camp, Al Shifa Hospital and Indonesian Hospital. It bombed residential buildings in Gaza without giving warning to the residents killing the whole families occupying them.
The IDF has killed more than 50 journalists in Gaza and even hit ambulances carrying patients. In short, the war crimes of Israel’s army and its leaders are enormous and unforgivable.
The human rights violations of the Netanyahu government not only during the ongoing war but also in normal times in West Bank has been documented. The ongoing prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas has also exposed the human rights violations by the Israeli forces in West Bank and in the Israeli prisons. The children and women released from Israeli prisons have narrated heart wrenching stories of torture and humiliation in the prisons. Most of them had been arrested without any charge under administrative detention, a common practice in West Bank. Some of them were arrested just for throwing stones. They were jailed for 8 to 20 years and were forced to live in inhuman conditions. A 16 year old girl was arrested and sentenced to 9 years in jail. She was released as part of the prisoner swap after serving 8 years in prison. So the Israeli government released her because she had already spent 8 years in prison. Another was also released after 8 years. A woman Isra Jaabis was also released after 8 years. A boy was spent 20 years in Israel’s prison. Among the persons released is,a 14 year boy, Ahmad Salaymeh was released with the warning that he should participate in celebrations of his release. He was threatened that he would be arrested again if he celebrated his released. He was arrested for throwing stones.
Another 18 year old boy narrated his tale of torture in the Israeli jail. He told a reporter:
“The jailors came in to count us and we put our hands on our heads (to save our heads). They started shouting on microphones to scare us before entering. But no one reacted. When they entered, they began beating me severely. I tried to push one away so he would focus on some one (else) but he kept beating me. He hit me on the head and left torture marks on my back and broke my hands. I was in pain on the floor for a week relying on some one to help me drink water and eat. I was on the floor. They didn’t give me any treatment. They kept coming in and beat us targetting not just me but others as well until their faces bled. Our room was like a war zone to them. Every time they entered, it was as if they wanted to kill us. They beat us with metal bars until they bent aiming at our heads and hands to break them. They broke my fingers. All the hospital and doctors said my bones were smashed and needed surgery. They would beat some until he died. Some prisoners died. No one knows what happened to them. There was an old man (who died).I forgot his name.”
Other prisoners released have narrated similar stories of torture and death in Israeli prisoners. They are kept hungry and are forced to live in inhumane conditions.
The famous journalist Gideon Levi says that the people of West Bank are picked up regularly, at every night under administrative detention. The Israeli Zionists consider Palestinians animals and consider themselves the chosen ones.
The Israeli forces have picked up 3200 Palestinians from West Bank since October 7 and this will continue. This prisoner swap has brought the brutal and barbaric face of the Israeli and the US and UK governments hidden behind the poster of human rights to prominent. The Israeli government did not know that it would have to free them one day and the prisoners would tell their stories to the world. The mainstream media has not showed their stories but the social media broadcast all the atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli security forces. The western media has only showed the ‘ordeal’ and ‘nightmare’ the Israeli hostages went through for fifty days though the released Israelis do not have stories of torture, starving and humiliation. Yes, some of them have lost weight which is big news for them. The Jewish channel CNN showed a 7 minutes 17 seconds interview of the father of the 9 year old Emily who had been kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. The father is asked several questions but he does not say she was beaten or kept without food. He tries his best to look very sad though his daughter is back. Intriguingly, the channel does not interview Emily.
Many Israelis describe the fifty day captivity of their loved ones as ‘hell’ but do not say how the relatives or loved ones of the Palestinians whose sons and daughters were kept in captivity for 8, 15 and even 20 years on false charges and tortured, kept hungry and dehumanised every day would have felt.
No matter what the outcome of this Israel-Hamas war is, the hypocrisy of the US and the western world has been exposed. The atrocities and the barbaric face of Israel has become more prominent because the social media has exposed their human rights violations fully.
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-politics/genocide-joe-palestinian-children/d/131219