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Public protest against the crimes against humanity committed by Israel is mounting in the international community as the days go by.

The special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory criticized Israel for its massive displacement, blockade and violence against Palestinians in a report, titled "Torture and genocide", recently submitted to the UN Human Rights Council.

According to the report, the Israeli authorities arrested more than 18 500 Palestinians, including over 1 500 children, in the West Bank from October 2023.

A UN expert said that while running a "system of forcing insult, humiliation and pain organizationally", Israel has long used it to dominate, subdue and oppress the Palestinians.

Israel shoots Palestinians to death with bullets and shells, while indiscriminately arresting and detaining them, men and women, old and young.

The detainees are thrown into prison for more than five years without trial and those who are kept in solitary cells with no windows are tortured with steam or cold air spouting out of small holes and glow lamp. When they are investigated, they are reportedly bound to iron chairs and suffer violence without a wink of sleep.

In February 2024, the Palestinian prisoners’ association condemned the brutal acts of the Israeli army and police, saying that “the most notorious criminal acts are torture, maltreatment, indiscriminate assault, threat of shooting and rape, threat by using military dogs and the act of using citizens as human shields”.

And as they conducted an investigation into torture of Palestinians, UN experts in the relevant fields asked about the secret prison known as "No 1391 facility" and Israel feigned complete ignorance of it.

Most of the prisoners suffer from various kinds of mental and physical illnesses due to brutal torture, narrow prison conditions and malnutrition.

Children are no exception.

UNICEF published the data that the Israeli forces detain 700 Palestinian children between 12 and 17 years old every year on average, bind them to chairs or keep them in solitary confinement for a long time and commit organized and institutionalized maltreatment against them.

The Israeli hangmen are even using the people suffering from illnesses as guinea pigs in medical experiments instead of giving them medical treatment. 

The statute of limitations is not applicable to the crimes against humanity and the Israeli authorities will have to pay dearly for them.