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CW: New York Times report finds israel systematically rapes Palestinians, sometimes to death. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Source (they put the actual torture and rape at paragraph 9999 after all the israeli propaganda)

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’s family home. When Mr. Bakr denied any connection to the group or knowledge of the pictured men, he was beaten repeatedly, he said.

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 “unbearable pain.”

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 “made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,” and also said that another detainee “died after they put the electric stick up” his anus.

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

For some reason the fact that this was published on D-Day made it even more poignant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What is D-Day?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey can you cw the pic and edit the title for sa content?

I think I people should know about this story and I’m not asking so that people can avoid the shock of it, but so that people who have been assaulted can avoid being re-exposed to their experiences.

Thanks for all your goodposts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not entirely sure how to put content warnings in the title, i added the words CW at the front is that how it is supposed to be done?

It is difficult to post the reality for Palestinians without people experiencing shock or depression from it. However it needs to be posted to raise awareness to the issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I think you blur the picture if you got one and put a more general description in the title so people can’t just get blam cammed with “rape with a foriegn object” while they’re baby huey scrolling along.

I agree that people need to be shocked by this stuff. It’s tough balance between having a safe space and spongebob pointing out the window at a huge pile of atrocities.

Thanks for doing your best instead of pushing back. The first time someone asked me to cw something I was uhh, much more combative.