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BREAKING: Testimony from an Israeli soldier who worked inside Sde Teiman:
“Sde Teiman, as anyone who was there knows, is a sadistic torture camp. Dozens of detainees entered alive and left in body bags. There are testimonies from guards, doctors, and detainees. None of that was mentioned in the investigation. As if the entire hell we created there boils down to whether or not an object was inserted into a detainee’s anus. But I saw that hell.
I saw a detainee die in front of my eyes—he was sitting with other detainees, blindfolded, and at some point, we just realized he was dead. I saw the facility commander gather everyone and try to calm the daily routine of abuse, the insane use of force, the inhumane conditions in which prisoners were kept. I heard him say, “I’ve been told from above that Sde Teiman is being called a cemetery,” and that “this has to stop.”
I saw people come into the facility with war injuries, then be starved for weeks with no medical care. I saw them urinate and defecate on themselves because they weren’t allowed to use the toilet. I still remember the smell. Many of them weren’t even militants—just Gazans arrested until investigation, who were then released home after severe abuse, once it turned out they were innocent. It’s no wonder people died there. The real wonder is that anyone survived.
The Zman Emet investigators were shocked when I told them this—but there was no trace of it in the program. What was included? The head of the military police investigation unit feigning surprise: “Until that moment,”—meaning the report about one injured and bleeding detainee—“we had no warning signs.” Really? There were reports and testimonies about abuse, inhumane conditions, and inadequate medical care. All they had to do was listen—or just count how many detainees went in alive and didn’t come out. You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes.
Everyone who was there knows about the torture, the surgeries without anesthesia, the horrific sanitary conditions. But none of that was aired. It was an entire program about Sde Teiman, without actually talking about Sde Teiman.
Everyone who was there knows. Knows about the torture, the surgeries without anesthesia, the shocking sanitation conditions. But none of that made it to the screen. As if a military torture camp, operating with the knowledge of all senior commanders, is less newsworthy than a single incident of abuse that can be verified or debunked. It was an entire program about Sde Teiman—without actually addressing Sde Teiman.
What happened in Sde Teiman isn’t a secret, but most Israelis still know nothing about it—even now—because the Israeli media has almost completely ignored it. That’s also why I agreed to be interviewed. Because Palestinians are still coming out of our detention centers in body bags, and most people around me have never heard about it.
But more than exposing the truth about what’s happening at Sde Teiman, the broadcast showed how this can continue. The reason is that journalists in Israel—who are well aware of the facts—prefer to hide them and instead sell a localized story about “a few bad apples.” But Sde Teiman isn’t about that one incident. It’s a clear case of policy—and it’s being carried out and maintained with the full cooperation of the Israeli media.”
Source: Haaretz.
Mike
