“This is a new rape crime committed against a detainee at the Sde Teiman camp (in the Negev Desert) by a group of prison guards,” Abdullah Al-Zaghari, head of the PPC.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC), a watchdog, and several Israeli media outlets reported the development on Monday. The victim has suffered serious injury as a result of the abuse and is unable to walk.

Subsequent to the Monday reports, the Israeli military police allegedly raided the Sde Teiman center as part of an investigation into the case, rounding up 10 troops stationed at the facility.
The police forces were met with resistance on the part of the troops, who barricaded themselves in and used pepper spray to avoid arrest.
The regime’s extremist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, however, described the suspects as “heroic warriors.”
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a similarly hard-right official, who oversees the prisons where Palestinians are detained, also called the Israeli troops the “best heroes” and described the arrests as “shameful.”

Israeli facilities hold an estimated 9,700 Palestinian prisoners.
Inmates have consistently reported being subjected to torture and sexual abuse.

Since 7 October 2023, 48 Palestinian prisoners have been killed in the Israeli detention centres.

Al Masirah report