Lubna Masarwa and Peter Oborne writes:

It’s been just over 20 years since CBS News published the sobering photographs that proved the US army was carrying out unspeakable crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

Rape. Degradation. Homicide. Torture, both psychological and physical. Sexual humiliation.

The revelations of US barbarity were greeted with horror around the world and played a major role in turning opinion against the Iraq War.

In recent days, it has become all too clear that something comparable to Abu Ghraib – and very possibly worse – has been taking place in Israeli prisons since 7 October when the war on Gaza broke out.

This week, appalling leaked video footage captured Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, just as a report from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem highlighted the state’s policy of systematic prisoner abuse and torture since the start of the war. [Continue reading…]