Hawzah News Agency- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called on the United Nations to investigate Israel’s torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees after a new report quotes prisoners as saying they were The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the United Nations to investigate Israel’s torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees after a new report quotes prisoners as saying they were brutally beaten, burned with hot water, urinated on by guards, denied food and medical attention, and sprayed with sewage water.

The report released by the Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society included testimonies from 23 prisoners held at al-Naqab Prison in southern Israel and at the Naftali camp in included testimonies from 23 prisoners held at al-Naqab Prison in southern Israel and at the Naftali camp in

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor also says: “Israeli prisons and detention centers, by their very design and structure, constitute a systematic framework inherently aimed at torturing and mistreating Palestinian prisoners and detainees, while depriving them of their most basic human rights.”

In a statement, CAIR said:

“We again urge the United Nations to conduct a full investigation of the systematic torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees by the far-right government of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. Unfortunately, through its complicity with Israel’s ongoing genocide, the Biden administration shares the blame for these human rights abuses.”

Source: CAIR Website