May 12, 2025
PCHR Releases Report on Torture and Genocide Against Palestinians from Gaza
PCHR Releases Report on Torture and Genocide Against Palestinians from Gaza

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a 129-page report documenting the systematic use of torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinians from Gaza detained by Israel since 7 October 2023. The report, entitled “Torture and Genocide: The Shattered Futures of Former Palestinian Detainees in Gaza”, is based on the testimonies of 100 former detainees, including 10 women, and legal visits to 53 others still in custody. The report concludes that the treatment of Palestinians from Gaza amounts to torture and that such torture forms an integral part of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Key findings include:

  • Mass arbitrary arrests of civilians, including children and the elderly, from homes, hospitals, shelters, and streets.
  • Detention without charge or access to legal counsel, under inhumane conditions.
  • Detainees subjected to brutal physical and psychological torture, including beatings, electrocution, suspension, sexual violence, extremely tight handcuffing and forced stress positions.
  • Release of detainees injured and/or in a severely weakened state, into a war zone, without support or protection.
  • Evidence of intent to destroy the population of Gaza by direct perpetrators, highlighting how genocidal and dehumanising rhetoric by senior Israeli officials has permeated down to the field, shaping the actions of lower-level personnel, including the systematic use of torture.

To date, thousands of Palestinian detainees from Gaza arrested following 7 October 2023 remain in Israeli detention and continue to be subjected to torture and ill-treatment. Many of them have been forcibly disappeared by the Israeli occupation authorities. An online reporting platform launched by PCHR in August 2024 has already received hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances.

As a result, PCHR calls on States to enforce international law, prevent genocide and torture, and investigate crimes of genocide and torture under universal jurisdiction. PCHR also demands unhindered access to places of detention and urgent ICC action,

Full report and testimonies available at:

4 Comments

  1. i hope palestine finds plenty wellbeing,
    with plenty healthy happy time for all palestine people, beautiful mysterious wonderful people,
    people of the world realise israelwest war machine people be wrongful ill,
    i hope all people find plenty healthy happy time,
    palestine centre for human rights helps all people gain sense,
    thank you wonderful people,
    stay well, elle

  2. […] published a 129-page report on Monday documenting the systematic use of torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinians from Gaza […]

  3. Where can I read about Hamas’ treatment of Israeli hostages?

    1. Your government works hard to silence those who were captured and released back (obviously they don’t need to work on silencing the ones who the IOF killed; Hannibal Directive ya know…)
      Yes, in fact even Israeli lives don’t actually matter to your leaders. So, for example, Benjamin Milekevski’s son is living it up in Miami and will never be called to “serve”, of course!)

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