☠️ “They Call It a Graveyard”: Israeli Guards Admit to AP That Their Prisons Are Ruthless Death Camps for Palestinians.

When Israeli prison workers themselves confess torture, starvation, amputations, and routine death, the world has no excuse left.

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“I don’t need Israelis to confirm Palestinian suffering — but in this case, they did.”

Let me start with this truth:

I have never needed an Israeli soldier, guard, or nurse to validate what Palestinians tell us. Their testimony has always been enough for me. Always.

Palestinians have been describing torture, starvation, beatings, humiliation, disappearance, and death inside Israeli prisons for decades.

But something extraordinary — and damning — is happening now.

Israeli guards themselves…
Israeli nurses…
Israeli doctors…
Israeli whistleblowers…

Are independently confirming the exact same horrors. In their own words. To the Associated Press. On the record or in sworn anonymity.

And the details they’re giving match Palestinian testimonies with painful, precise alignment.

When the perpetrators begin confessing, the world no longer has room for denial.

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A verified, devastating AP investigation

The Associated Press, one of the most rigorous and universally respected news organizations in the world, published a comprehensive investigation this week. Verified, cross-checked, corroborated at the highest levels.

The findings?

At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 7th, 2023 — and the real number is “likely significantly higher,” according to Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI).

For context:

Fewer than 30 Palestinians died in Israeli custody in the entire decade before the genocide. Now nearly 100 have died in just over two years.

This isn’t a spike.
It’s not an anomaly.
It’s not “fog of war.”

It’s a system of death. Built. Maintained. Expanded.

And the testimonies from Israelis inside that system make it undeniable.

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Sde Teiman: The Israeli prison workers call it a “graveyard”

One Israeli guard — who worked inside the notorious Sde Teiman military prison — told AP he watched Palestinian detainees die so routinely that staff called the place a:

“graveyard.”

His descriptions match what Palestinian survivors have been saying for generations:

• Prisoners constantly chained

• Beaten for speaking

• Beaten for moving

• Forced to urinate and defecate on themselves

• Left to literally rot in their chains

• Deaths so common that guards didn’t even rush to check the bodies

He said one morning he arrived at work, saw a Palestinian detainee lying motionless on his side, dead — and guards didn’t even pause.

“It was business as usual with the dead guy,” he said.

Let that sink in.

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The Israeli nurse: limbs rotting, amputations required

A former nurse who worked at Sde Teiman described something even more horrifying:

The chains were so tight, for so long, that prisoners’ limbs rotted.
Some had to be amputated.

She said she left the job because she could not bear the abuse she witnessed.

Let me repeat this:

Palestinians inside Israeli detention are literally losing limbs from chained torture.

This is not Gaza under bombardment.

This is inside Israeli custody, behind locked doors, with no cameras, no oversight, and no access granted to the Red Cross.

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**29 deaths at Sde Teiman alone.

Almost half of all known deaths in custody.**

PHRI confirms:

29 Palestinians have died at Sde Teiman alone since the genocide began.

Nearly a third of all documented deaths — in a single facility.

And Israel refuses to release data on hundreds of other detainees.

This means the real toll may be far higher. Some say over 1,000 have been tortured and killed there.

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Autopsy reports — from Israeli doctors — show:

• broken ribs

• brain bleeds

• old bruises layered over new bruises

• malnutrition

• medical neglect

These are the kinds of injuries you see in torture chambers.
Not “detention centers.”
Not “security facilities.”
Not “holding sites.”

Torture chambers.

And Israeli doctors called to observe autopsies told families exactly that.

One Palestinian man, 45-year-old Mohammad Husein Ali, died within a week of arrest.
His autopsy showed likely brain bleed from physical assault.
He had no major health conditions before detention.

His two-year-old daughter kept asking,
“Where’s Baba? Where’s Baba?”

Eventually she stopped asking.

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A 17-year-old boy died from starvation.

PHRI confirmed that a Palestinian child — 17 years old — died inside Israeli custody from malnutrition.

Starved to death.

Israel’s Supreme Court had to order more and better food for detainees.

This is genocide inside the prisons.

A slow, bureaucratic death sentence.

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A lawyer detained for social media posts watched a man die in solitary

An Israeli-Palestinian lawyer, held for 10 days for “inciting violence” via social media (in reality, for posting the truth), said he watched a father of four:

• beaten almost daily

• screaming in pain

• begging for a doctor who never came

• finally dying in his cell

And after the man died?

A guard said:

“At least one less to care about.”

That is the language of ethnic cleansing.
That is the language of genocide.
That is the language of a system that sees Palestinians not as human beings, but as disposable bodies.

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The political climate: Ben-Gvir is bragging about degrading conditions

This is not happening in the shadows of Israeli politics.

The man who oversees Israeli prisons — Itamar Ben-Gvir — has openly bragged about:

• degrading conditions to “the legal minimum”

• punishing detainees collectively

• stripping prisoners of food, bedding, clothing, family visits

• crushing Palestinian dignity as a matter of policy

And in the midst of these atrocities, he’s celebrated by the Israeli right for being “tough” and “uncompromising.”

Translated:
He’s celebrated for cruelty.

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When perpetrators begin confessing, the world has no excuse left

This AP report is not relying on Palestinian testimony alone.

Again — Palestinian testimony has always been enough for me.

But here, the confessions come from:

• Israeli guards

• Israeli nurses

• Israeli doctors

• Israeli whistleblowers

• Israeli soldiers

• Israeli autopsy reports

Israel cannot claim bias.
Israel cannot claim exaggeration.
Israel cannot claim propaganda.

This is their own people — inside their own system — telling the world what is happening.

The prisons are killing Palestinians by design.

Not by accident.
Not by mismanagement.
By design.

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This is the hidden front of the genocide

The world sees the bombings.

It often ignores the prisons.

But inside Israel’s military detention system — Sde Teiman, Kishon, Megiddo — the genocide is unfolding in the dark:

• torture

• beatings

• starvation

• rape

• electrocution

• forced nudity

• humiliation

• denial of medical care

• amputations

• death

And Israel refuses to release basic information about detainees.

Families don’t know if their sons or daughters or fathers or mothers are alive or dead.

This is genocide by disappearance.

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Where do we go from here?

International law is unambiguous:

• Willful killing of detainees → war crime

• Torture → war crime

• Cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment → war crime

• Starvation as a method of warfare → war crime

• Enforced disappearance → crime against humanity

• Killing members of a protected group → genocide

There is enough here — today — for:

• ICC arrest warrants

• Universal jurisdiction prosecutions

• Sanctions against responsible units

• Suspension of U.S. military aid

And there is enough here for every person of conscience — Muslim, Christian, Jewish, atheist, left, right — to say:

Enough.

No more complicity.
No more lies.
No more euphemisms.

We are watching state-sponsored torture and murder.

You cannot be neutral.

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