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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Under pressure from Israel’s top court to improve conditions at Sde Teiman, a prison in the occupied West Bank notorious for abuse of Palestinian detainees, the military transferred hundreds of detainees to newly opened prisons, The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-detainees-prisons-ofer-e3dfd040f10e047d7cc95cbb8a295b28">reported</a>.</p>
<p>HaMoked and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel say, instead of correcting the abuses against Palestinians held without charge or trial — including beatings, excessive handcuffing, and poor diet and health care, Israel’s military just moved them to Ofer and Anatot prisons where the conditions are just as bad.</p>
<p>“What we’ve seen is the erosion of the basic standards for humane detention,” said Jessica Montell, the director of Hamoked, one of the rights groups petitioning the Israeli government.</p>
<p>Several investigations by <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iron-bars-electric-shocks-dogs-and-cigarette-burns-how-palestinians-are-tortured-israeli-detention" target="_blank">Middle East Eye</a>, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/29/middleeast/sde-teiman-protests-idf-investigation-intl/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-detention-base.html">The </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-detention-base.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> as well as testimonies by former Palestinian detainees and eyewitnesses have repeatedly described<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-are-atrocities-alleged-have-taken-place-sde-teiman-prison" target="_blank"> incidents of torture and sexual abuse</a> at Sde Teiman since the establishment of the facility after 7 October when the war on Gaza broke out after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.</p>
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