A United Nations expert says Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent”.
In a report released on Friday, Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said that since October 7, 2023, Palestinians in custody “have been subjected to exceptionally ruthless physical and psychological abuse.”
Entitled “Torture and Genocide,” the report “examines Israel’s systematic use of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since October 7, 2023.” It claimed that “torture in detention has been used on an unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance”.
Albanese said that, since October 2023, arrests of Palestinians in the occupied territory had “escalated dramatically”, with more than 18,500 people arrested, including at least 1,500 children.
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Israel Systematically Torturing Palestinians in Custody, Says UN Expert
03/21/2026
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