The United Nations Committee Against Torture has issued a damning report alleging that Israel is operating a “de facto state policy of organized and widespread torture.” Testimonies from both Israeli and Palestinian rights groups described harrowing conditions in detention centers.
Thousands of Palestinians have reportedly been held under administrative detention or the Unlawful Combatants law, often without access to lawyers or family, amounting to what the UN calls “enforced disappearance.”
The committee’s findings detail grim abuses: deprivation of food and water, beatings, electrocution, waterboarding, sexual violence, and even cases where detainees were shackled permanently and denied toilets. These practices, the UN concluded, rise to the level of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and potentially genocide.
Israel has rejected the allegations, calling them “disinformation” and accusing the UN of bias. The UN, however, emphasized that torture is prohibited under international law under all circumstances, and violations by one side do not justify violations by the other.
Meanwhile, conditions in Gaza remain dire despite the ceasefire, with families living in tents through winter rains and aid agencies warning of insufficient supplies. Reports of summary executions in the West Bank further fuel international concern.
The UN’s findings and the silence of powerful states expose a brutal paradox: the world loudly condemns torture in principle yet tolerates it in practice when geopolitics dictate. Israel’s actions, if committed by another nation, would likely have triggered swift international intervention. That they have not is less a testament to justice than to the selective morality of those who claim to uphold it. In the end, the real crime is not only the torture itself, but the global complicity that allows it to continue unchecked.
I need to underscores that Israel got its victory by the end of November 2023. What followed is pure evil. You must agree that if any other ethnic group carried out such actions, the international community would have intervened militarily, but the lack of intervention here reveals who truly holds power in the global order.
And don’t forget that the crime isn’t just torture — It’s complicity as well.