{"id":34014,"date":"2024-06-06T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/?p=34014"},"modified":"2025-01-19T06:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T22:32:47","slug":"inside-sde-teiman-the-base-where-israel-detains-gazans-by-patrick-kingsley-bilal-shbair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/inside-sde-teiman-the-base-where-israel-detains-gazans-by-patrick-kingsley-bilal-shbair\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Sde Teiman, the Base Where Israel Detains Gazans by Patrick Kingsley &#038; Bilal Shbair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-d6rqef\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h1 data-testid=\"headline\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"link-ab11010\" class=\"css-4um83n e1h9rw200\" data-testid=\"headline\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Inside the Base Where Israel Has Detained Thousands of Gazans<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-178vgup e1wiw3jv0\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Since Israel invaded Gaza, the Sde Teiman military base has filled with blindfolded, handcuffed detainees, held without charge or legal representation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34018 size-full\" title=\"A white single-story building with signs in Hebrew, next to a fence topped with barbed wire.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-1.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-1-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-1-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The New York Times visited part of the Sde Teiman base, which has become synonymous<br \/>\nwith the detention of Gazans, in May.Credit&#8230; Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The men sat in rows, handcuffed and blindfolded, unable to see the Israeli soldiers who stood watch over them from the other side of a mesh fence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">They were barred from talking more loudly than a murmur, and forbidden to stand or sleep except when authorized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A few knelt in prayer. One was being inspected by a paramedic. Another was briefly allowed to remove his handcuffs to wash himself. The hundreds of other Gazan detainees sat in silence. They were all cut off from the outside world, prevented for weeks from contacting lawyers or relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This was the scene one afternoon in late May at a military hangar inside Sde Teiman, an army base in southern Israel that has become synonymous with the detention of Gazan Palestinians. Most Gazans captured since the start of the war on Oct. 7 have been brought to the site for initial interrogation, according to the Israeli military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The military, which has not previously granted access to the media, allowed The New York Times to briefly see part of the detention facility as well as to interview its commanders and other officials, on condition of preserving their anonymity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Once an obscure barracks, Sde Teiman is now a makeshift interrogation site and a major focus of accusations that the Israeli military has mistreated detainees, including people later determined to have no ties to Hamas or other armed groups. In interviews, former detainees described beatings and other abuse in the facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34021 size-full\" title=\"A blindfolded figure stands next to a fence looped with razor wire. Other blindfolded figures sit behind. Torture and abuse were standard treatment.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-2.jpg?resize=661%2C508&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-2.jpg 661w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-2-480x369.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 661px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A photo of detained Palestinians in Sde Teiman shared with The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nBy late May, roughly 4,000 Gazan detainees had spent up to three months in limbo at Sde Teiman, including several dozen people captured during the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Israel in October, according to the site commanders who spoke to The Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">After interrogation, around 70 percent of detainees had been sent to purpose-built prisons for further investigation and prosecution, the commanders said. The rest, at least 1,200 people, had been found to be civilians and returned to Gaza, without charge, apology or compensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cMy colleagues didn\u2019t know whether I was dead or alive,\u201d said Muhammad al-Kurdi, 38, an ambulance driver whom the military has confirmed was held at Sde Teiman late last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34022 size-full\" title=\"A man with close-cropped hair in a jacket labeled \u201cE.M.S.\u201d\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-3.jpg?resize=720%2C1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-3-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Muhammad al-Kurdi in his ambulance worker\u2019s jacket.Credit&#8230;via Muhammad al-Kurdi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n\u201cI was imprisoned for 32 days,\u201d said Mr. al-Kurdi. He said he had been captured in November after his convoy of ambulances attempted to pass through an Israeli military checkpoint south of Gaza City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cIt felt like 32 years,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A three-month investigation by The New York Times \u2014 based on interviews with former detainees and with Israeli military officers, doctors and soldiers who served at the site; the visit to the base; and data about released detainees provided by the military \u2014 found those 1,200 Palestinian civilians have been held at Sde Teiman in demeaning conditions without the ability to plead their cases to a judge for up to 75 days. Detainees are also denied access to lawyers for up to 90 days and their location is withheld from rights groups as well as from the International Committee of the Red Cross, in what some legal experts say is a contravention of international law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said his ribs were broken after he was kneed in the chest and a second detainee said his ribs broke after he was kicked and beaten with a rifle, an assault that a third detainee said he had witnessed. Seven said they had been forced to wear only a diaper while being interrogated. Three said they had received electric shocks during their interrogations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34025 size-full\" title=\"Satellite imagery from Planet Labs from April 18, 2024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-4.jpg?resize=611%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-4.jpg 611w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-4-480x328.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 611px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nMost of these allegations were echoed in interviews conducted by officials from UNRWA, the main U.N. agency for Palestinians, an institution that Israel says has been infiltrated by Hamas, a charge the agency denies. The agency conducted interviews with hundreds of returning detainees who reported widespread abuse at Sde Teiman and other Israeli detention facilities, including beatings and the use of an electric probe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">An Israeli soldier who served at the site said that fellow soldiers had regularly boasted of beating detainees and saw signs that several people had been subjected to such treatment. Speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid prosecution, he said a detainee had been taken for treatment at the site\u2019s makeshift field hospital with a bone that had been broken during his detention, while another was briefly taken out of sight and returned with bleeding around his rib cage. The soldier said that one person had died at Sde Teiman from trauma injuries to his chest, though it was unclear whether his injury was sustained before or after reaching the base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34026 size-full\" title=\"Soldiers next to a truck with a long flatbed full of men bound with their chests and legs bare and their heads or eyes covered.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-5.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-5.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-5-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-5-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-5-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Israeli soldiers next to a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza in December. According to the<br \/>\nIsraeli military, almost all detainees captured in Gaza since October spent time at Sde Teiman.Credit&#8230;Moti Milrod\/Haaretz, via Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Of the 4,000 detainees housed at Sde Teiman since October, 35 have died either at the site or after being brought to nearby civilian hospitals, according to officers at the base who spoke to The Times during the May visit. The officers said some of them had died because of wounds or illnesses contracted before their incarceration and denied any of them had died from abuse. Military prosecutors are investigating the deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">During the visit, senior military doctors said they had never observed any signs of torture and commanders said they tried to treat detainees as humanely as possible. They confirmed that at least 12 soldiers had been dismissed from their roles at the site, some of them for excessive use of force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In recent weeks, the base has attracted growing scrutiny from the media, including a CNN report later cited by the White House, as well as from Israel\u2019s Supreme Court, which on Wednesday began to hear a petition from rights groups to close the site. In response to the petition, the Israeli government said that it was reducing the number of detainees at Sde Teiman and improving conditions there; the Israeli military has already set up a panel to investigate the treatment of detainees at the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In a lengthy statement for this article, the Israel Defense Forces denied that \u201csystematic abuse\u201d had taken place at Sde Teiman. Presented with individual allegations of abuse, the military said the claims were \u201cevidently inaccurate or completely unfounded,\u201d and might have been invented under pressure from Hamas. It did not give further details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34028 size-full\" title=\" Three men in gray clothes lying around a bare bed frame, one with bandaged wounds on his legs and arms.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-6.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-6.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-6-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-6-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-6-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Palestinian former detainees awaiting treatment for injuries shortly after being released<br \/>\nback to Gaza in December.Credit&#8230;Said Khatib\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cAny abuse of detainees, whether during their detention or during interrogation, violates the law and the directives of the I.D.F. and as such is strictly prohibited,\u201d the military statement said. \u201cThe I.D.F. takes any acts of this kind, which are contrary to its values, with utmost seriousness, and thoroughly examines concrete allegations concerning the abuse of detainees.\u201d The Shin Bet, Israel\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, which conducts some of the interrogations at the base, said in a brief statement that all of its interrogations were \u201cconducted in accordance with the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Yoel Donchin, a military doctor serving at the site, said it was unclear why Israeli soldiers had captured many of the people he treated there, some of whom were highly unlikely to have been combatants involved in the war. One was paraplegic, another weighed roughly 300 pounds and a third had breathed since childhood through a tube inserted into his neck, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhy they brought him &#8211; I don\u2019t know,\u201d Dr. Donchin said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cThey take everyone,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">How Detainees Are Captured<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Fadi Bakr, a law student from Gaza City, said he was captured on Jan. 5 by Israeli soldiers near his family home. Displaced by fighting earlier in the war, Mr. Bakr, 25, had returned to his neighborhood to search for flour, only to get caught in the middle of a firefight and wounded, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34029 size-full\" title=\"Fadi Bakr in a green sweatshirt and black jacket.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-7.jpg?resize=540%2C810&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-7.jpg 540w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-7-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 540px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Fadi Bakr soon after his release.Credit&#8230;via Fadi Bakr<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Israelis found him bleeding after the fighting stopped, he said. They stripped him naked, confiscated his phone and savings, beat him repeatedly and accused him of being a militant who had survived the battle, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cConfess now or I will shoot you,\u201d Mr. Bakr remembered being told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cI am a civilian,\u201d Mr. Bakr recalled replying, to no avail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The circumstances of Mr. Bakr\u2019s arrest mirror those of other former detainees interviewed by The Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Several said they had been suspected of militant activity because soldiers had encountered them in areas the military thought were harboring Hamas fighters, including hospitals, U.N. schools or depopulated neighborhoods like Mr. Bakr\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Younis al-Hamlawi, 39, a senior nurse, said he was arrested in November after leaving Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City during an Israeli raid on the site, which Israel considered a Hamas command center. Israeli soldiers accused him of having ties to Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34030 size-full\" title=\"Younis al-Hamlawi, with a close-cropped bald head and stubble, seated outside. He is wearing a short-sleeved black hoodie.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-8.jpg?resize=800%2C1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-8-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Younis al-Hamlawi Credit&#8230;Bilal Shbair for The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nMr. al-Kurdi, the ambulance driver, said he had been captured while he attempted to bring patients through an Israeli checkpoint. Israeli officials say that Hamas fighters routinely use ambulances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">All of the eight former detainees described their capture in similar ways: They were generally blindfolded, handcuffed with zip ties and stripped naked except for their underwear, so that Israeli soldiers could be sure they were unarmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Most said they were interrogated, punched and kicked while still in Gaza, and some said they were beaten with rifle butts. Later, they said, they were crammed with other half-naked detainees into military trucks and driven to Sde Teiman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Some said they had later spent time in the official Israeli prison system, while others said they were brought straight back to Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">During his month at the site, Mr. Bakr spent four days, on and off, under interrogation, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cI consider them the worst four days of my entire life,\u201d said Mr. Bakr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">How the Site Developed<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">During previous wars with Hamas, including the 50-day conflict in 2014, the Sde Teiman military base intermittently held small numbers of captured Gazans. A command center and warehouse for military vehicles, the base was selected because it is close to Gaza and houses an outpost of the military police, who oversee military detention facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In October, Israel started using the site to detain people captured in Israel during the Hamas-led attack, housing them in an empty tank hangar, according to the site commanders. Once Israel invaded Gaza at the end of that month, Sde Teiman began receiving so many people that the military refitted three other hangars to detain them and converted a military police office to create more space for interrogations, they said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">By late May, they said, the base included three detention sites: the hangars where detainees are guarded by military police; nearby tents, where detainees are treated by military doctors; and an interrogation facility in a separate part of the base that is staffed by intelligence officers from Israel\u2019s military intelligence directorate and the Shin Bet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Classified as \u201cunlawful combatants\u201d under Israeli legislation, detainees at Sde Teiman can be held for up to 75 days without judicial permission and 90 days without access to a lawyer, let alone a trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34031 size-full\" title=\"A square gray archway surrounded by low fencing.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-9.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-9.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-9-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-9-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-9-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">An entrance to the Sde Teiman base.Credit&#8230;Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Israeli military says these arrangements are permitted by the Geneva Conventions that govern international conflict, which allow the internment of civilians for security reasons. The commanders at the site said that it was essential to delay access to lawyers in order to prevent Hamas fighters from conveying messages to their leaders in Gaza, hindering Israel\u2019s war effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">After an initial interrogation at Sde Teiman, detainees still suspected of having militant ties are usually transferred to another military site or a civilian prison. In the civilian system, they are supposed to be formally charged; in May, the government said in a submission to Israel\u2019s Supreme Court that it had started criminal proceedings against \u201chundreds\u201d of people captured since Oct. 7, without giving further details about the exact number of cases or their status. There have been no known trials of Gazans captured since October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Experts on international law say Israel\u2019s system around initial detention is more restrictive than many Western counterparts in terms of the time it takes for judges to review each case, as well as in the lack of access for Red Cross staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Early in its war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the United States also delayed independent review of a detainee\u2019s case for 75 days, said Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, a law professor who wrote an overview of the laws governing detention of nonstate combatants. The U.S. shortened that delay in 2009 to 60 days, while in Iraq cases were reviewed within a week, the professor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Israel\u2019s decision to delay judicial review of a case for 75 days without providing access to lawyers or the Red Cross \u201clooks to me like a form of incommunicado detention, which itself is a violation of international law,\u201d Professor Hill-Cawthorne said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">After Mr. Bakr disappeared suddenly in January, he said, his family had no way of finding out where he was. They assumed he was dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800000;\"><strong>Where the Detainees Live<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Inside Sde Teiman, Mr. Bakr was held in an open-sided hangar where he said he was forced, with hundreds of others, to sit handcuffed in silence on a mat for up to 18 hours a day. The hangar had no external wall, leaving it open to the rain and the cold, and guards watched him from the other side of a mesh fence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">All the detainees wore blindfolds \u2014 except for one, known by the Arabic word \u201cshawish,\u201d which means sergeant. The shawish acted as a go-between the soldiers and the prisoners, doling out food and escorting fellow prisoners to a block of portable toilets in the corner of the hangar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Weeks later, Mr. Bakr said, he was appointed as a shawish, allowing him to see his surroundings properly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">His account broadly matches that of other detainees and is consistent with what The Times was shown at the site in late May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The commanders at the site said detainees were allowed to stand up every two hours to stretch, sleep between roughly 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and pray at any time. For a brief period in October, they said, detainees were allowed to take off their blindfolds and move around freely within the hangars. But that arrangement ended after some detainees became unruly or tried to unlock their handcuffs, the commanders said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Exhausted after the journey to Sde Teiman, Mr. Bakr fell asleep soon after his arrival \u2014 prompting an officer to summon him to a nearby command room, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The officer began beating him, Mr. Bakr said. \u201cThis is the punishment for anyone who sleeps,\u201d he recalled the officer saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Others described similar responses to minor infractions. Rafiq Yassin, 55, a builder detained in December, said he was beaten repeatedly in his abdomen after trying to peek from underneath his blindfold. He said he began vomiting blood and was treated at a civilian hospital in the nearby city of Beersheba. Asked about the claim, the hospital referred The Times to the health ministry, which declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34032 size-full\" title=\"Rafiq Yassin, with a trim gray beard, in a black leather jacket.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-10.jpg?resize=720%2C1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-10.jpg 720w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-10-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Rafiq Yassin Credit&#8230;Bilal Shbair for The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nThe Israeli soldier who witnessed abuses at a hangar said one detainee was beaten so hard that his ribs bled after he was accused of peeking beneath his blindfold, while another was beaten after talking too loudly too often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Times did not witness any beatings during the visit to the hangar, where some detainees were seen praying while others were assessed by paramedics or brought by the shawish to wash in a sink at the back of the hangar. One man could be seen peeking beneath his blindfold without immediate punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Like the other former detainees, Mr. Bakr recalled receiving three meager snacks on most days \u2014 typically bread served with small quantities of either cheese, jam or tuna, and occasionally cucumbers and tomatoes. The military said that the food provisions had been \u201capproved by an authorized nutritionist in order to maintain their health.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">According to several former detainees, it was not enough. Three said they lost more than 40 pounds during their detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Some medical treatment is available on site. The commanders brought The Times to an office where they said medics screened every detainee on arrival, in addition to monitoring them every day in the hangars. Serious cases are treated in a nearby cluster of tents that form a makeshift field hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Inside those tents, patients are blindfolded and handcuffed to their beds, in accordance with a health ministry document outlining policies for the site, which was reviewed by The Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">During the visit, four medics at the hospital said those measures were necessary to prevent attacks on the medical staff. They said that at least two prisoners had tried to assault medics during their treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">But others, including Dr. Donchin, said that in many cases the handcuffs were unnecessary and made it harder to treat people properly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34033 size-full\" title=\"A man showing a hand with scabbing at the wrist and on the back of the palm, and yellow marks around the knuckles.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-11.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-11.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-11-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-11-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-11-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A Palestinian former detainee on a hospital bed last month, showing<br \/>\nscabs caused, he said, by his treatment in Israeli detention. Credit&#8230;Hatem Khaled\/Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Two Israelis who were at the hospital last year said that its staff members were much less experienced and more poorly equipped during earlier phases of the war. One of them, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid prosecution, said that at the time patients were not given enough painkillers during painful procedures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Physicians for Human Rights, a rights group in Israel, said in a report in April that the field hospital was \u201ca low point for medical ethics and professionalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The hospital\u2019s current leadership acknowledged that it had not always been as well-equipped as it has become, but said its staff was always highly experienced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Dr. Donchin said in some respects the treatment at the field clinic was now \u201ca little better\u201d than in Israeli civilian hospitals, mainly because it was staffed by some of the best doctors in Israel. Dr. Donchin, a lieutenant colonel in the military reserve, was a long-serving anesthesiologist at a major hospital in Jerusalem and now teaches at a leading medical school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The facilities and equipment seen by The Times included an anesthesia machine, an ultrasound monitor, X-ray equipment, a device for analyzing blood samples, a small operating theater and a storeroom containing hundreds of medicines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Doctors serving at Sde Teiman who spoke to The Times said they were also told not to write their names on any official documentation and not to address each other by name in front of the patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Dr. Donchin said that officials feared they could be identified and charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">During The Times\u2019s visit, three doctors said they did not fear prosecution but sought anonymity to prevent Hamas and their allies from attacking them or their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">How the Interrogations Work<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Roughly four days after his arrival, Mr. Bakr said he was called in for interrogation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Like others who spoke to The Times, he remembered being brought to a separate enclosure that the detainees called the \u201cdisco room\u201d \u2014 because, they said, they were forced to listen to extremely loud music that prevented them from sleeping. Mr. Bakr considered it a form of torture, saying it was so painful that blood began to trickle from inside his ear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Israeli military said that the music was \u201cnot high and not harmful,\u201d played within earshot of Israelis and Palestinians alike, and was meant to prevent the detainees from easily conferring with each other before interrogation. The Times was not shown any part of the interrogation complex, including the area where music was played.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Wearing nothing but a diaper, Mr. Bakr said, he was then brought to a separate room to be questioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The interrogators accused him of Hamas membership and showed him photographs of militants to see if he could identify them. They also asked him about the whereabouts of hostages, as well as a senior Hamas leader who lived near Mr. Bakr\u2019s family home. When Mr. Bakr denied any connection to the group or knowledge of the pictured men, he was beaten repeatedly, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Mr. al-Hamlawi, the senior nurse, said a female officer had ordered two soldiers to lift him up and press his rectum against a metal stick that was fixed to the ground. Mr. al-Hamlawi said the stick penetrated his rectum for roughly five seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him with \u201cunbearable pain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A leaked draft of the UNRWA report detailed an interview that gave a similar account. It cited a 41-year-old detainee who said that interrogators \u201cmade me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,\u201d and also said that another detainee \u201cdied after they put the electric stick up\u201d his anus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Mr. al-Hamlawi recalled being forced to sit in a chair wired with electricity. He said he was shocked so often that, after initially urinating uncontrollably, he then stopped urinating for several days. Mr. al-Hamlawi said he, too, had been forced to wear nothing but a diaper, to stop him from soiling the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Ibrahim Shaheen, 38, a truck driver detained in early December for nearly three months, said he was shocked roughly half a dozen times while sitting in a chair. Officers accused him of concealing information about the location of dead hostages, Mr. Shaheen said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Mr. Bakr also said he was forced to sit in chair wired with electricity, sending a current pulsing through his body that made him pass out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Released Without Charge<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">After more than a month in detention, Mr. Bakr said, the officers seemed to accept his innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Early one morning in February, Mr. Bakr was put on a bus heading to Israel\u2019s border with southern Gaza: After a month of detention, he was about to be released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">He said he asked for his phone and the 7,200 shekels (roughly $2,000) that had been confiscated from him during his arrest in Gaza, before he reached Sde Teiman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In response, a soldier hit and shouted at him, Mr. Bakr said. \u201cNo one should ask about his phone or his money,\u201d the soldier said, according to Mr. Bakr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The military said all personal belongings were documented and placed in sealed bags after detainees arrived at Sde Teiman, and returned on their release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34034 size-full\" title=\"Concrete blocks topped by an Israeli flag, near a fence.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-12.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-12.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-12-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-12-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Israel-Gaza-Detention-12-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Kerem Shalom border crossing last month.Credit&#8230;Shannon Stapleton\/Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Around dawn, the bus arrived at the Kerem Shalom crossing point, near the southern tip of Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Like other returned detainees, Mr. Bakr walked for roughly a mile before being greeted by aid workers from the Red Cross. They fed him and briefly checked his medical condition. Then they brought him to a nearby terminal where, he said, he was briefly interrogated by Hamas security officials about his time in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Borrowing a phone, he called his family, who were still 20 miles away in Gaza City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It was the first time that they had heard from him in more than a month, Mr. Bakr said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cThey asked me, \u2018Are you alive?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Iyad Abuheweila contributed reporting from Istanbul; Gabby Sobelman from Rehovot, Israel; and Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; <a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Inside Sde Teiman, the Base Where Israel Detains Gazans by Patrick Kingsley &amp; Bilal Shbair - New York Times\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/06\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-detention-base.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Sde Teiman, the Base Where Israel Detains Gazans by Patrick Kingsley &amp; Bilal Shbair &#8211; New-York-Times<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14px;\">June 6, 2024<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><br \/>\nRelated<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Constant Handcuffs and No Showers: Gazans Detail Abuse in Israeli Detention At the Anatot base, detainees are held blindfolded and handcuffed for weeks. At Ofer, they don't get to change their clothes for months. | At Sde Teiman, they're interrogated to deafening music accompanied by beatings. In the run-up to this week's hostage deal, they told lawyers that violence occurs at every step of the way | Hagar Shezaf and Bar Peleg | Haaretz\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/USauN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #800000;\">Constant Handcuffs and No Showers: Gazans Detail Abuse in Israeli Detention<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a title=\"Limbs of Palestinians detained by Israel amputated because of injuries caused by shackles, doctor says - Middle East Monitor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20240405-limbs-of-palestinians-detained-by-israel-amputated-because-of-injuries-caused-by-shackles-doctor-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Limbs of Palestinians detained by Israel amputated because of injuries caused by shackles, doctor says<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"We Served on Israel's Sde Teiman Base. Here's What We Did to Gazans Detained There Hands and feet in shackles. Eyes blindfolded. No moving. No talking. And, sometimes, violent beatings. Days upon days, weeks upon weeks pass like this at the Sde Teiman facility for Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians from Gaza. These interviewees know. They served there\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/2EF3z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Served on Israel&#8217;s Sde Teiman Base. Here&#8217;s What We Did to Gazans Detained There<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/state-secrets-and-crimes-rape-at-israels-sde-teiman-prison-lisa-hajjar-basil-farraj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">State Secrets and Crimes \u2013 Rape at Israel\u2019s Sde Teiman Prison | Lisa Hajjar, Basil Farraj<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/raped-female-soldiers-palestinian-leaked-sde-teiman-photo-speaks-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Raped by female soldiers\u2019: Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Inside the Base Where Israel Has Detained Thousands of Gazans Since Israel invaded Gaza, the Sde Teiman military base has filled with blindfolded, handcuffed detainees, held without charge or legal representation. The New York Times visited part of the Sde Teiman base, which has become synonymous with the detention of Gazans, in May.Credit&#8230; Avishag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,645,3,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-gaza-genocide","category-political-issues","category-racism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}