A 17-year-old student was raped and left to die at a hospital. A girl was killed by her cousin for using a mobile phone. A woman was killed by her own husband for denying him sex. A doctor had acid thrown on her by a lift operator. All of this happened within a single week.
I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.
Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.
Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites.
The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.