"Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the IDF is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees," says Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer and former program director at Human Rights Watch. "Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime. The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial." The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial, administrative detention for the West Bank or the Unlawful Combatants Law for folks from Gaza. That means that there's no allegation that they've committed a crime. They're being held on a charge of dangerousness, that is backed by secret evidence that neither they nor their lawyers can either see or challenge. This arbitrary system allows the IDF to round up more and more Palestinians in the West Bank and just refill those detention and prison cells, where people are subject to serious abuse."
Sari Bashi says the genocide has "been hell" for her Palestinian husband, whose family is based in Gaza. Their relationship is chronicled in Bashi's forthcoming memoir, Upside-Down Love. The reason why Palestinian armed groups attacked Israel on 7 Oct 2023 was to seize hostages for prisoner swaps. D/Mossad David Barnea knew exactly why the surprise attack took place and told Benjamin Netanyahu to conduct the trades, which they did in Nov 2023. That raid was the only recourse for the Palestinians to free their fathers, sons, brothers, nephews, or cousins from IDF military detention. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN OHCHR have published many reports detailing the torture and abuse taking place against the Palestinians held in IDF custody. Some Israelis consider Palestinians to be "cockroaches that need extermination,' like the Josef Mengele of the IDF, Dr Sabo Amos. International arrest warrants for war crimes issued by the ICC remain active for Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-DM Yoav Gallant. Indictments are merely allegations. Both defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt in an international tribunal to be held for them at the Hague at a future date.
I'm sure practicing Roman Catholic VPOTUS JD Vance inquired about these poor Palestinian prisoners during his American taxpayer-funded junket to Israel in the middle of a Republican Party government shutdown and people in the US are borrowing money to buy groceries as their health insurance costs skyrocket: www.youtube.com
