Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners

Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners is John Kiriakou’s account of systematic abuse in Israeli detention after the October 7 attack, corroborated by a CNN report from an Israeli whistleblower and, he says, by former DOD official Mark Fallon.^[1][2] With over 10,000 potential prisoners held, doctors have reported to the United Nations an “inordinate” number of unnecessary amputations — legs cut off so prisoners “can’t run,” arms so they “can’t fire a gun.”^[3][2] An Israeli human-rights attorney who represents only Palestinians told Kiriakou that the entire prison system enacted a rule barring inmates from walking: they must crawl on hands and knees, and speaking above a whisper brings a beating with a truncheon or rebar, broken limbs, and — once infected — amputation.^[4][5] Kiriakou has also pointed to the language used in hostage-negotiation coverage as evidence of the same double standard: Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” while Palestinians held by Israel — many never charged with any crime, seized when the military “busts down the door of their house” — are called only “detainees.” He notes that 70 percent of the Palestinian detainees released in exchanges have been children.^[6] Kiriakou has separately pointed to a New York Times report on Israeli settlers from New Jersey and New York invading one of the last Christian villages in the West Bank, throwing out residents and confiscating their land, as part of the same broader pattern.^[7]

See also

• October 7 Attack
• Cold Cell