The public committee against torture in Israel released a harsh report on Wednesday, revealing "pain and humiliation" inflicted by the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service, against Palestinian detainees.
The report, which is based on interviews and investigations of 574 arrests and interrogations over the last year, argues that Israeli bodies, especially the IDF and the Shin Bet, habitually bind detainees in a painful and humiliating manner, often constituting torture.
In defiance of Israeli law, High Court rulings and international laws and guidelines, detainees in Israel are usually bound in a way that is designed to cause them pain, and not only to prevent them from escaping, the report says.
