answers: Who is responsible for the alleged war crimes in Gaza? · bears on: Do Israeli policies meet the legal definition of apartheid?
Israel has a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture
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Questions this bears on
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Who is responsible for the alleged war crimes in Gaza?
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Do Israeli policies meet the legal definition of apartheid?
1 branch · 8 sources
What bears on it
- supports Administrative detention is discriminatory.
- supports Around 2,500 Palestinians are held without any formal charges under administrative detention.
- supports Administrative detention is a form of detention whereby individuals are detained by the state without any intent to prosecute them in a trial, and…
- supports Diplomatic missions issued a joint local statement on the extensive use of administrative detention by Israeli authorities without formal charge
- supports UkinJerusalem 4‑tweet thread
- supports People are being held on grounds that they cannot challenge.
- challenges The joint diplomatic thread called for ICRC access and fair trials under international law
- supports Detainees are held in Israeli prisons in Israel.
- supports At least two mothers claimed the bound man in the photo was their son.
- supports Families usually have a major problem visiting detainees.
- challenges For seven months at the start of the war the Israeli military refused to provide basic information about detained people in Gaza, implementing a…
- challenges HaMoked said Israeli authorities had denied holding hundreds of missing Palestinians whose arrests were confirmed by witness testimony.
- supports The Israeli military confirmed the authenticity of the photo of a bound Palestinian detainee.
- challenges The Israeli military declined to comment on whether the detainee had been identified, received medical support, or if his family in Gaza had been…
- supports Human rights organisations describe prison conditions for Palestinians as severe and life‑threatening, citing inadequate food, denial of medical care…
- supports Israel has been using administrative detention since 1967.
- challenges Israel has the right and duty to protect its citizens and Palestinians living in areas controlled by Israel.
- supports Israeli authorities have virtually unrestrained powers to hold detainees in overcrowded cells and impose collective punishment measures such as…
- supports Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, sometimes aided and abetted by Israeli security forces.
- supports Israeli soldiers arrested Sama Safi and members of the Palestinian women's national soccer team.
- supports Osama was seized with his one‑year‑old son in March near the yellow line marking Israeli military control in Gaza.
- supports Over 9,000 Palestinians are detained in Israeli prisons, including thousands held without charge or trial
- supports The authors call on Israel to uphold its human‑rights obligations towards detainees, including granting the ICRC immediate access to all detention…
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- UN committee on torture independent hedged
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- Israel has a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture
Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.
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Origin: extracted from Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report · 2026-07-20 06:20