UN Committee to Grill ’Israel’ on Torture

Local Editor

"Israel" is under investigation. The UN Committee against Torture is to question the apartheid "Israeli" entity on its policies with regard to torture.

"Israeli" authorities are to appear before the panel over Tuesday and Wednesday as part of a routine procedure implemented by the world body as Tel Aviv has signed the 1991 UN Convention against Torture.

The Jerusalem Post "Israeli" daily reported that the committee is to raise with the "Israeli" authorities such issues as the conditions of Palestinian detainees, including minors, the demolition of Palestinian homes, settler violence against Palestinians, and "Israeli" investigations of torture complaints.

The authorities representing "Israel" before the panel are likely to argue that the convention's jurisdiction does not apply to the West Bank as it is under the military control and not the "full control" of the regime.

The committee refuted the "Israeli" claim in a 2012 report, saying Tel Aviv was to observe the convention in all the areas "subject to the de jure or de facto control" of the regime.

It said the regime "and its personnel have repeatedly entered and established control over the West Bank and Gaza."

"Israeli" forces routinely abduct Palestinians in the West Bank and put them behind bars based on the so-called administrative detention policy.

Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the Tel Aviv regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.

Over 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly incarcerated in 17 "Israeli" prisons and detention camps, many of them without charge or trial.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team