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American Dr Mark Perlmutter, who has volunteered in Gaza, says one of his Palestinian colleagues was taken by Israeli occupation forces, had his fingers shattered and was told to confess to being a member of Hamas or have his wife gang raped in front of him.
Soldiers ‘crushed’ his fingers, Perlmutter explains, adding that they also threatened to ‘send a drone to your bedroom window and incinerate your children.’ The doctor did not confess and spent 11 months being tortured in Israeli detention.
I don’t understand the point of that, honestly. Torturing someone (thus punishing them regardless) into confessing, coaxing a confession out of someone making the confession itself highly incredulous. What’s the point?
Thanks for all the replies, guys! I appreciate the responses but at the same time I’m now even more depressed. 😬
The point is to kill and torture these people. Calling them terrorists is a tried and true tactic.
They will call him Hamas whether he confesses or not and then say they killed another Hamas terrorist.
Why torture though? Just kill him if that’s the point.
Because they’re sadistic fucks
Torture is for the pleasure of the torturer (and possibly those ordering it). As a secondary impact, it may terrorize a populace. It serves no other purpose.
Cruelty is the point
To push them into breaking so when you kill them you can say that the torture is justified.
Hamas is an excuse, the genocide will happen regardless
Because it’s a genocide.
If he confesses they’re justified because “he was totally hamas” if he holds out they’re justified because “he’s a highly trained hamas agent”.
Anyone who runs…
The point is the cruelty.
The BBC and New York times will publish the confession uncritically to manufacture consent for Israel torturing doctors.
Confess -> got a video of a “Hamas member” who works in the medical field confessing to whatever you want.
Doesn’t confess -> torture him to death and don’t share the story or simply increase the count of “Hamas militants” killed that you’ll show later to journalists and other governments.
The point is cruely and supremacy. Everyone knows torture doesn’t work when it comes to extracting information, even the Nazis knew that much. What they want is to instill fear and terror into every Palestinian, in an attempt to bring the entire population into despair and cripple the resistance. That’s why the IDF routinely kidnaps Palestinians, including children, without any evidence or fair trial, to incarcerate them indefinitely in torture prisons that are more inhumane than we can possibly imagine.
Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons
Palestinians are jailed without charge, forced into false confessions, routinely tortured, raped, denied medical attention, and some even killed as a result. This includes hundreds of children.
Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B’TSelem)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel (wiki)
Children are jailed and abused in Israeli prisons (Save The Children)
Torture and Abuse in Interrogations (B’TSelem)
Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy (NPR)
Urgently investigate inhumane treatment and enforced disappearance of Palestinians detainees from Gaza (Amnesty)
Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests (Amnesty)
many reaons. two I can think of
1- either killing or terrorising/traumatizing everyone so that they leave their country so that settlers can overtake more easily
2- creating international casus belli for bombing hospitals
To justify and legitimise what they’re doing. If someone is a member of Hamas, in the eyes of the world they’re a terrorist and therefore not human, not entitled to rights, etc. They can be tortured, killed etc and noone cares.
This is why Trump is going after ‘Hamas supporters’, not Palestinian supporters.
The point is they need to make terrorists to justify self defense to make more terrorists to take more land.