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On June 26, it "expressed concern about the suffering of the Palestinian people who are tortured under the occupation...."
It said for decades they've been subjected to horrific forms of torture. It's official policy despite Section 277 of its 1977 Penal Law prohibiting the practice. In similar language to the UN Convention against Torture, it states:
"A public servant who does one of the following is liable to imprisonment for three years:(1) uses or directs the use of force or violence against a person for the purpose of extorting from him or from anyone in whom he is interested a confession of an offense or information relating to an offense; (or)
(2) threatens any person, or directs any person to be threatened, with injury to his person or property or to the person or property of anyone in whom he is interested for the purpose of extorting from him a confession of an offense or any information relating to an offense."
Nonetheless, Israel ruthlessly persecutes Palestinians and Arab Israeli citizens. They're denied rights afforded Jews. Courts provide legal cover. They also permit torture.
Since 1967, Israel willfully, systematically and illegally practiced torture. In 1987, the Landau Judicial Commission addressed the practice. It condemned the it but approved the Penal Law's "necessary defense" provision.
Israel's High Court of Justice (HCJ) legitimized coercive interrogations in three 1996 cases. Abusive practices were raised. They include violent shaking, painful shackling, hooding, playing deafeningly loud music, prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, and lengthy detainments.
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