UN investigating information on mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces

Geneva (Quds News Network) – Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, has announced that she is examining information concerning reports of torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli occupation forces.

Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council meetings in Geneva on Friday, Edwards stated that she has recently received reports of torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank or during the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

She added, “I am currently examining and conducting an investigation to uncover the facts.”

The Human Rights Office reported multiple accounts of mass arrests, mistreatment, and enforced disappearances of Palestinians in northern Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces, with thousands being detained in the West Bank.

 

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