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20.11.2025 - 17:15 [ Middle East Eye ]

Dick Cheney may be gone, but the wars he waged are forever

(November 8, 2025)

As Bush‘s vice president, Cheney became a key architect of the US „war on terror“, which included the 2002 invasion of Afghanistan, the 2003 war on Iraq, and sweeping intelligence, surveillance and torture programmes.

Most notoriously, Cheney helped the Bush administration construct an elaborate double lie as a pretext for the invasion of Iraq.

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Cheney‘s true legacy, then, lies not only in the „war on terror“ he helped engineer, but in the political and moral infrastructure he left behind.

More than two decades later, his post-9/11 world order – defined by endless wars, government overreach and impunity – endures, and today‘s war criminals, following in his path, roam free.

17.11.2025 - 19:00 [ Physicians for Human Rights Israel ]

Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody | New Report and Testimonies

Our latest report reveals that over the past two years, up to August 2025, at least 94 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities. Yet, the report stresses that this unprecedented figure likely represents only a portion of the full death toll. Given the Israeli military’s practice of enforced disappearances since October 2023, the actual number of deaths may be considerably higher. Moreover, since the report was completed, four more Palestinians have died in the past month alone, pushing the total close to triple digits – deaths caused by the systemic denial of medical care and the torture of Palestinians in Israeli custody. These policies persist even now, despite the ceasefire in Gaza.

The report is based on 94 documented cases between October 7, 2023, and August 2025. This unprecedented toll, together with extensive findings and evidence of deaths caused by torture and medical neglect, points to a deliberate Israeli policy of killing Palestinians in custody.

At least 46 Palestinians died in Israel Prison Service (IPS) facilities, and 52 more died in military custody.

10.11.2025 - 23:37 [ Middle East Eye ]

Legal team presents new evidence of torture of Palestinian prisoners to ICC

New evidence regarding the torture of Palestinian prisoners whose mutilated bodies were returned by Israel was presented at the International Criminal Court by a legal team representing the victims of the genocide in Gaza.

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that evidence regarding the targeting of journalists was added to the ongoing series of legal efforts to prosecute Israel in the International court since 2008.

According to the report, documented medical evidence was presented by doctors and forensic experts through detailed reports, photos, videos, and family testimonies.

10.11.2025 - 20:52 [ Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor ]

Clear evidence of brutal torture: Condition of Palestinian bodies released from Israeli prisons demands urgent int’l investigation

(October 16, 2025)

Euro-Med Monitor’s field team monitored the Israeli authorities’ handover of the bodies of 120 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), delivered in three consecutive batches: 45 on Tuesday, 45 on Wednesday, and 30 on Thursday, including dozens of unidentified remains.

Medical examinations, forensic reports, and observations by the field team revealed conclusive evidence that many victims were killed after being detained. Their bodies bore clear marks of hanging, rope imprints around their necks, injuries from close-range gunfire, bound hands and feet with plastic restraints, and blindfolds. Some bodies were crushed under tank tracks, while others showed severe signs of physical torture, fractures, burns, and deep wounds.

Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said: “The bodies we received were bound like animals, blindfolded, and bore horrific signs of torture and burns that reveal the extent of the crimes committed in secret. They did not die naturally; they were executed after being restrained. These people were not buried underground, they were kept in the occupation’s refrigerators for long months.”

29.10.2025 - 22:57 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel bans Red Cross from visiting Palestinians held without trial

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has officially barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinians held under Israel’s so-called “unlawful combatants” law, a legal category that does not exist under international law and allows indefinite detention without charge, trial or oversight.

Katz claimed in a decree that allowing ICRC access would “seriously harm national security”, effectively ensuring that Palestinian detainees held under this exceptional measure remain entirely hidden from international monitoring.

22.10.2025 - 11:07 [ Al Jazeera ]

Forensic teams uncover signs of torture, decomposition on bodies returned by Israel

Forensic teams have reported horrific conditions endured by these Palestinians. Some of the bodies show visible signs of torture, while others have arrived in a decomposed state. This raises serious questions about the circumstances of their deaths, as Israel has not provided further details regarding their ages, names or how they died.

At the moment, the Health Ministry is continuing ground preparations, and it is possible the burials will take place in the city of Deir el-Balah.

22.10.2025 - 10:50 [ Middle East Eye ]

Forensic tests confirm torture on bodies of 54 Palestinians returned by Israel, says Gaza officials

Gaza authorities condemned these acts, describing them as „horrific crimes,“ and called on international organisations to pursue justice. The statement urged global institutions to hold those responsible for these „massacres“ accountable under international law.

18.10.2025 - 15:43 [ Al Jaźeera ]

‘Physical and psychological torture was the highlight last two years’ : Mohammad Dahleh

Mohammad Dahleh, a human rights lawyer, says “the motive for revenge” among the Israeli society was strong after the October 7, 2023 attack, and the country’s prison authority acted with the same motive towards inmates.

He said the Israeli prison system started beating and torturing prisoners right after the attack.

“They also prevented prisoners from sleeping and worshipping,” Dahleh told Al Jazeera from the occupied East Jerusalem, adding that many prisoners were deprived of medical treatment, which led to deaths in jails.

18.10.2025 - 15:17 [ Al Jazeera ]

‘When I woke up, I realised I had lost my sight’: Released Palestinian detainee recounts torture

Mahmoud Abu Foul, 28, lost his leg in a 2015 Israeli bombing and was arrested late last year at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

He endured eight months of severe torture in Israeli custody, including with iron tools and electric shocks, which left him blind after a coma. Released recently, he remains without eye treatment and is now living in a tent in Gaza near ruins.

18.10.2025 - 15:06 [ Al Jazeera ]

What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel

Naji Abbas, director of the prisoners and detainees department for Physicians for Human Rights Israel, said his organisation was “not surprised” at the condition of the bodies released.

“We have recorded hundreds of instances of torture and deaths in the Israeli prison system, dozens of Palestinians who have been killed, beaten to death, or have died after being refused treatment for months,” Abbas said.

One autopsy the organisation examined showed signs of violence on the body eight months after the person died, he added.

“These are documented cases of detainees’ bodies with clear signs of torture and of having been brutally restrained before death, and still it is not on every television and in every newspaper,” Abbas said.

08.10.2025 - 16:30 [ Middle East Eye ]

Palestinian held without charge dies in Israeli custody

Khdeirat, 22, was detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 23 May and placed under administrative detention, without charge or trial.

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Khdeirat became the 78th identified Palestinian prisoner to die in Israeli custody over the past two years, since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

05.10.2025 - 17:16 [ Jacobin ]

The US Media Ignores Palestinian Deaths in Israeli Captivity

(October 4, 2025)

There are currently some 3,613 Palestinians under administrative detention in Israeli prisons, according to the July 2025 CDA report, and more than ten thousand Palestinians in Israeli custody (not including those held in military camps) in total. Even Israel’s own military intelligence only identifies a quarter of its detainees from Gaza as “fighters,” while human rights groups and Israeli soldiers have reported even fewer — roughly 15 percent — as Hamas members.

The CDA reports that Tazaz’a was the seventy-sixth identified Palestinian to die in Israeli custody since October 7, 2023.

05.10.2025 - 16:46 [ Jacobin ]

Mainstream Media Is Ignoring Israel’s Sexual Torture

(August 17, 2024)

For the past few weeks, Israel has been caught up in a scandal around torture at its Sde Teiman detention camp involving an act so nauseatingly heinous, you should only keep reading if you have a strong stomach.

05.10.2025 - 16:24 [ B'Tselem ]

Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps

“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Their testimonies reveal the outcomes of the rushed transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, military and civilian, into a network of camps dedicated to the abuse of inmates as a matter of policy. Facilities in which every inmate is deliberately subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering operate as de-facto torture camps.

05.10.2025 - 16:03 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Ben-Gvir: Thunberg and flotilla activists ‚deserve conditions of terrorists‘ in prison

Thunberg herself remains in Israeli custody.

11.09.2025 - 18:13 [ Jacobin.de ]

Mit dem Krieg gegen den Terror hat der Westen das Völkerrecht ausgehebelt

Der 11. September lieferte den USA den Vorwand, geopolitische Interessen unter dem Deckmantel der Terrorabwehr zu verfolgen. Der »War on Terror« führte zu einer gefährlichen Erosion des Völkerrechts, die unsere Welt heute prägt.

06.09.2025 - 16:37 [ Wafa.ps ]

19,000 Palestinians detained since start of genocidal war on Gaza, says Prisoner’s Society

RAMALLAH, September 5, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Friday that Israeli occupation forces have carried out more than 19,000 detentions in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, since the start of the ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 202.

The figures do not include detentions from Gaza, which are estimated to be in the thousands. The data covers those still held and those who were later released.

01.09.2025 - 21:52 [ cageinternational / instagram ]

Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo prisoner who spent years on a hunger strike and faced brutal force-feeding to protest his imprisonment and torture, is now advocating for T. Hoxha — who is on her 3rd week of hunger strike inside prison.

(August 29, 2025)

He called the prison today and reminded them of their duty of care and demanded an independent medical assessment, warning that her health is at serious risk.

Take action now:
✉️ Email the prison today and demand T is transferred to a hospital for independent health monitoring: RALPH.LUBKOWSKI(at)sodexogov.co.uk

Call the prison: 01733 217500 and insist she is taken to a hospital, not left in the prison medical wing.

Comment “template” to receive our email draft and call for her urgent transfer.

28.07.2025 - 00:41 [ +972 Magazine ]

Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

Starving at Bergen-Belsen alongside my mother, perhaps in the same barracks, was Hanna Levy-Hass, mother of Haaretz journalist Amira Hass. Hanna was one of the few people to keep a diary throughout her time at Bergen-Belsen, which survived and was later published.

In February 1945, she wrote: “Hunger crushes the spirit. I feel my physical and intellectual strength diminishing. Things escape me, I can’t think properly, can’t grasp events, can’t realize the full horror of the situation.

“Our hunger has only become fiercer,” the diary entry went on. “Our bodies have been demolished by it, we all drag ourselves around like rags; men literally drop to the ground from exhaustion and end up dying of hunger, simple as that.”

Eighty years later, in a dispatch this week from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, +972 Magazine journalist Ruwaida Amer wrote, “For about a month now, though, I’ve lost the ability to follow the news. My focus is slipping. My body is breaking down.”

14.07.2025 - 21:25 [ theGuardian.com ]

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

“When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have, at least.”

Israeli human rights lawyers and scholars have described the plan as a blueprint for crimes against humanity and some have warned that if implemented, “under certain conditions it could amount to the crime of genocide”.

11.07.2025 - 20:02 [ Washington Post ]

Israeli plans for Gaza draw criticism of ‘concentration camps’

In March, in the wake of the collapse of an earlier ceasefire, Katz had issued a warning to Gaza residents that, if they didn’t release the remaining hostages and “remove Hamas” themselves, Israel would act with “unprecedented force.” Other “options” were possible for Gaza’s population, Katz suggested, including “relocation to other countries,” while threatening “complete destruction and devastation.”

At the time, Meron Rapoport, a left-wing Israeli journalist, parsed the statements coming from prominent lawmakers and officials, as well as connected right-wing Israeli journalists, and came up with this somewhat prescient conclusion: “Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza — through a combination of evacuation orders and intense bombardment — into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area,” he wrote on April 1, suggesting the goal was tantamount to the creation of a large “concentration camp.”

10.07.2025 - 02:10 [ Freitag.de ]

Alle Palästinenser in ein Lager sperren, wie nennt ihr das?

(July 8, 2025)

Es ist der Dienstagmorgen des 8. Juli 2025, Israel hat gerade angekündigt, ein Lager in Rafah zu errichten, in das es sämtliche Bewohner des Gazastreifens „aufnehmen“ will – um sie dann nicht mehr herauszulassen. Zuerst 600.000, dann alle Palästinenser. Das berichtete die israelische Zeitung Haaretz am Montagabend. Und was titeln die Leitmedien in Deutschland am Dienstag?

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10.07.2025 - 01:34 [ theNational.scot ]

David Lammy calls Israel Gaza concentration camp plan ‚sticking point‘

(July 9, 2025)

The Foreign Secretary said: “The statements that you’ve just described from defence minister [Israel Katz] relate very much to where the IDF are located and you’ll understand that if they’re, if what you describe is true then I think that would be a big sticking point for getting that ceasefire.”

Describing the issue as one of Israel’s “location” in Gaza, he added: “I suspect the statement from defence minister Katz is in relation to that and I suspect if indeed he is insistent of that position then it would be very hard to see how we get that ceasefire because there is an acute discussion about the degree to which the IDF withdraws from Gaza.”

10.07.2025 - 01:17 [ Common Dreams ]

Critics Aghast at Israel‘s Push for Gaza ‚Concentration Camp‘

(July 8, 2025)

„It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,“ he told The Guardian. „While the government still calls the deportation ‚voluntary,‘ people in Gaza are under so many coercive measures that no departure from the strip can be seen in legal terms as consensual. When you drive someone out of their homeland that would be a war crime, in the context of a war. If it‘s done on a massive scale like he plans, it becomes a crime against humanity.“

10.07.2025 - 01:07 [ NewArab.com ]

Katz proposes ‚concentration camp‘ on Rafah‘s ruins for Gaza‘s Palestinians

(July 8, 2025)
Katz proposed the idea that some 600,000 Palestinians living or displaced to the al-Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip would be transported to what he called a „humanitarian city,“ from which they wouldn’t be „allowed to leave“.

Before entry to the camp, Palestinians would be forced to undergo „screenings“ to ensure they are not „Hamas operatives,“ he said, as reported by Haaretz on Monday.

07.07.2025 - 17:20 [ Times of Israel ]

Aid group planned massive camps for Gazans in bid to advance Trump’s ‘vision’ – report

The GHF later denounced Reuters for publishing the article, insisting in a post on X that it had nothing to do with the document.

“When we asked to review the document, they refused to share it. We told them clearly: GHF has no involvement in HTAs, no plans for HTAs, and this presentation is NOT ours. They ran the story anyway. This isn’t journalism. It’s agenda-driven clickbait, propped up by bad-faith sources and designed to stir controversy, not uncover truth,” the foundation wrote.

07.07.2025 - 17:08 [ +972 Magazine ]

Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp

(April 1, 2025)

Connecting all these dots leads to a fairly clear conclusion: Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza — through a combination of evacuation orders and intense bombardment — into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed, and buildings throughout the rest of the enclave would likely be razed to the ground.

Without mincing words, this “humanitarian zone,” as Magal so kindly put it, in which the army intends to corral Gaza’s 2 million residents, can be summed up in just two words: concentration camp. This is not hyperbole; it is simply the most precise definition to help us better understand what we are facing.

07.07.2025 - 16:53 [ Amnesty International ]

Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians

(July 3, 2025)

The World Food Programme and local organizations were for the first time permitted to distribute flour in Gaza City on 26 June 2025. The relatively smooth distribution that took place with thousands waiting their turn and no reported injuries is a damning indictment of Israel’s militarized GHF scheme. All the evidence gathered, including testimonies which Amnesty International is receiving from victims and witnesses, suggest that the GHF was designed so as to placate international concerns while constituting another tool of Israel’s genocide.

“Not only has the international community failed to stop this genocide, but it has also allowed Israel to constantly reinvent new ways to destroy Palestinian lives in Gaza and trample on their human dignity,” said Agnès Callamard.

07.07.2025 - 16:32 [ Middle East Eye ]

GHF ‚proposed camps for Palestinians to reside, de-radicalise and re-integrate‘

The plan describes „large scale“ places where the Palestinian population in Gaza could „temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so“.

A slide deck seen by Reuters goes into detail about these Humanitarian Transit Areas, and how they would be used to „gain trust with the local population“ and facilitate Trump‘s „vision for Gaza“.

In February, Trump said that the US should „take over“ Gaza and rebuild it as the „Riviera of the Middle East“, after ethnically cleansing the population outside of the territory.

07.07.2025 - 16:08 [ Reuters ]

Exclusive: US-backed aid group proposed ‚Humanitarian Transit Areas‘ for Palestinians in Gaza

A controversial U.S.-backed aid group proposed building camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside – and possibly outside – Gaza to house the Palestinian population, according to a proposal reviewed by Reuters, outlining its vision of „replacing Hamas‘ control over the population in Gaza.“
The $2 billion plan, created sometime after February 11 for the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, was submitted to the Trump administration and recently discussed in the White House, according to a source familiar with the matter.

06.07.2025 - 03:35 [ Common Dreams ]

Designed To Enact Suffering

The Senate‘s barely-there approval – fuck Shady Vance – of Trump‘s heinous 900-page bill represents the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history along with the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance, all in the obscene name of (partly) funding a $975 billion tax break for the already richest 1%. The bill, „a tipping point between normality and fascism,“ also pours over $170.7 billion into „a campaign of extermination against immigrants that evokes the greatest human rights atrocities of the past,“ funding the hiring of vastly more Nazi thugs to terrorize, humiliate and put in cages millions of brown people who do much of this country‘s work.

It will kick about 16 million people off health insurance by cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid, because who needs health insurance. It will throw millions of poor families, veterans, the elderly and disabled off SNAP by cutting $285 billion in food assistance, because who needs food. It will cut funding to rural hospitals, nursing homes, student loans, wind and solar energy – electric bills will soar 30% – costing millions of jobs and adding almost $4 trillion to the national debt, to be paid by our children and grandchildren, one of many excellent reasons it‘s said to be the most unpopular legislation since passage of the economically disastrous Embargo Act of 1807.

07.06.2025 - 12:00 [ Middle East Eye ]

The four ICC judges sanctioned by the US for Palestine and Afghanistan work

The ICC has a total of 18 judges who serve in different chambers, including the Pre-Trial, Trial and Appeals chambers.

Judges are nominated by state parties to the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding treaty, and then elected by the Assembly of States Parties, the court‘s governing body.

Judges must demonstrate high moral character, impartiality and integrity, meeting the qualifications required in their home countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices.

Once elected, ICC judges serve a non-renewable nine-year term.

Below are the profiles of the four judges sanctioned by the Trump administration on 5 June 2025.

06.06.2025 - 22:23 [ THE WHY / Youtube ]

Taxi to the Dark Side⎜WHY DEMOCRACY?⎜(Documentary)

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