UN Office: Torture of Palestinian prisoners is close to the border of genocide – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news

Francesca Albaniz, a UN special reporter on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that Israel’s torture of prisoners and detainees are being carried out extensively and systematically and are close to the crime borders.

In a message on the X platform, he wrote: Palestinian prisoners, including men and women, have been victims of sexual violence in Israeli detention centers. Albaniz added: “Documentary group rape incident in the” Sadi Timan “detention center is not an exceptional or individual case, but part of the process of severe human rights violations.

He noted that these actions are not only cruel and cruel, but are also the pillars of genocide. Albaniz emphasized that inflicting severe physical or mental harm to the members of a group, for their belonging to that group, is one of the defined elements of genocide in international law.