{"id":13618,"date":"2024-05-11T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13618"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:27:03","slug":"strapped-down-blindfolded-held-in-diapers-israeli-whistleblowers-detail-abuse-of-palestinians-in-shadowy-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13618","title":{"rendered":"Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;At a military base that now doubles as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/06\/middleeast\/doctor-israel-hospital-conditions-intl\/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detention center<\/a>&nbsp;in Israel\u2019s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men\u2019s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They\u2019re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guards were instructed \u201cto scream&nbsp;<em>uskot<\/em>\u201d \u2013 shut up in Arabic \u2013 and told to \u201cpick people out that were problematic and punish them,\u201d the source added.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/strapped-down-blindfolded-held-diapers-080008283.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel\u2019s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.<br \/>\nRows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.<\/p>\n<p>A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men\u2019s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They\u2019re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guards were instructed \u201cto scream uskot\u201d \u2013 shut up in Arabic \u2013 and told to \u201cpick people out that were problematic and punish them,\u201d the source added.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/strapped-down-blindfolded-held-diapers-080008283.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1302,1301,194,391,389,108,115,158],"class_list":["post-13618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13619,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13618\/revisions\/13619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}