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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

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Anesthesiologist Yoel Donchin, who treated Palestinian detainees at the IDF's Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel, speaks in an interview with the Kan broadcaster aired August 2, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 3, 2024, 1:30 pm
Doctor who reported abuse of Palestinian detainee: I blamed fellow prisoners
Anesthesiologist Yoel Donchin, who treated terror suspects at Sde Teiman, confirms seeing signs of serious sexual abuse, says he didn’t think Israelis ‘would do something like that’
By ToI Staff
Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 11, 2024, 7:11 pm
US ‘deeply concerned’ after report alleges Gaza prisoners abused at Israeli facility
Citing Israeli whistleblowers and freed detainees, CNN describes beatings, psychological abuse, medical neglect, prisoners tied near-naked to beds; IDF denies improper treatment
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
A man holds the source sheet for that day’s Torah study. (NYC Department of Corrections)
April 23, 2024, 10:01 am
At Rikers Island, Jewish volunteers connect with inmates by leading prayer services
Joining grassroots efforts to alleviate the notoriously brutal conditions at NY State’s largest jail is a group from the UWS Base that learns, prays and spends time with prisoners
By julia GERGELY
Palestinian security prisoner Omar Atshan hugs his mother after being released from an Israeli prison, in Ramallah on November 26, 2023. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
March 4, 2024, 10:55 am
UNRWA said to accuse Israel of abusing Gazan detainees
UN agency, whose employees are accused of taking part in October 7 onslaught, reportedly alleges suspects ‘beaten, stripped, robbed, blindfolded, sexually abused’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Inside Nitzan Prison in Ramle, February 27, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 8, 2023, 7:23 pm
Ben Gvir orders disused underground jail wing readied to hold Oct. 7 terrorists
Section in Ramle’s Nitzan Prison offers minimal conditions, and has not been used in many years; 118 ‘unlawful combatants’ from Gaza held, according to latest figures
By ToI Staff
Members of the emergency squad of Moshav Amuka seen during a drill in Moshav Amuka, northern Israel, November 15, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 15, 2023, 6:16 pm
Gun permit requests since October 7 equivalent to number in previous 20 years
Over 236,000 people apply for licenses, as Ben Gvir seeks to arm civilians despite warnings that weapons will be used by criminals
By ToI Staff
Jedidiah Murphy wears a skull cap that was a gift from one of his supporters, Rabbi Yehuda Eber, in the death row unit at Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, October 26, 2019. (Yehuda Eber via JTA)
October 10, 2023, 1:30 am
As execution day nears, advocates for Texas Jew on death row say hopes are dimming
Jedidiah Murphy is to die by lethal injection Tuesday for the murder of a 79-year-old during a carjacking, but many say he would be more valuable ministering to fellow prisoners
By Ron Kampeas
This image obtained from the Iranian news agency IRNA on October 16, 2022, shows a fire truck in front of Evin Prison, in the northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran. (AFP)
September 18, 2023, 9:20 pm
After US prisoner swap, a dozen Westerners remain captive in Iran
Rights groups say imprisonment of Western nationals is a ploy designed by regime to extract concessions from rival powers
By Stuart Williams
A woman steps through a door that is covered by a mural depicting American hostages and detainees who are being held outside the US, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, July 20, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
January 23, 2023, 2:15 pm
US citizen detained in Iran ends hunger strike after seven days
Siamak Namazi calls on Biden to consider plight of captive Americans, accuses successive US presidents of being more concerned with ‘political thermometer’ than ‘moral compass’
By AFP
Barry Rosen, 77, a former US diplomat who was one of the 52 hostages held in Iran during 444 days from 1979 to 1981, speaks to AFP journalists outside the Coburg palace in Vienna, Austria, on January 14, 2022. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)
January 25, 2022, 5:10 am
Nuclear talks spark glimmer of hope for Westerners held by Iran
Former hostages push for fate of Americans, Europeans and others detained by Tehran to be included in deal, but some caution against further complicating talks by linking issues
By Anne BEADE
View of Manhattan Detention Complex known as The Tombs to be closed on White street. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
January 28, 2021, 8:53 pm
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders urge New York to vaccinate its prisoners
Letter signed by over 120 faith leaders calls on US state to include ‘the most invisible’ in priorities for mass vaccination drive
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (L) and Justice Minister Amir Ohana attend the annual justice conference in Airport City, outside Tel Aviv on September 3, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 15, 2021, 5:57 pm
AG slams Ohana, says he won’t defend order in court to not vaccinate prisoners
Mandelblit tells police minister he has no authority to make such a directive and failed to provide legal justification, won’t receive alternative representation at High Court
By ToI Staff
Prison guards wearing protective clothing transport a prisoner suspected of having the coronavirus, at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 14, 2021, 8:54 pm
Health minister: Israeli, Palestinian prisoners to start vaccinating next week
Yuli Edelstein says prisons will follow official guidelines for inmates to receive shots, won’t differentiate between guards and prisoners
By ToI Staff
Prison guards wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, seen as they transport a prisoner suspected of having the coronavirus at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 14, 2021, 1:02 pm
Rivlin calls for vaccination of prisoners: Ban is ‘inconsistent with our values’
President’s statement comes amid Public Security Minister Ohana continued refusal to inoculate inmates
By ToI Staff
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, speaks to foreign correspondents in his office in Gaza City, May 10, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)
November 3, 2019, 8:29 pm
Hamas head said to deny progress on prisoner swap, as no government to talk to
Israeli official says negotiations moving ahead, but Hamas making ‘crazy’ demands in exchange for return of captives and soldiers’ remains
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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