The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today responded to a report published by Addameer on the Ofer Camp, an Israeli detention facility where Palestinian detainees were reportedly tortured and starved.
The report says in part:
“Since October 7, the Israel Prison Service has enforced a distressing starvation policy affecting all male and female prisoners in Israeli prisons. This draconian measure extends to prisoners within the army camps as well. Particularly alarming conditions have been reported in Ofer Camp, where inmates have communicated with human rights organizations about the insufficient and often spoiled and uncooked food provided, which is barely enough to sustain them…
“The prisoners incarcerated at Ofer Camp endured severe beatings and harsh punishments, with guards taking numerous photographs of these incidents. Despite the guards administering these punishments from the moment the prisoners arrived at Ofer Camp, the reasons for such actions remain unknown and unjustified to this day…”
CAIR has repeatedly called for U.S and international action to stop Israel’s torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners.
In a statement, CAIR said:
“The reported starvation, denial of basic hygiene and physical torture to which the far-right Israeli government has subjected Palestinian detainees is further proof of its brutality and genocidal intent. We call on the Trump administration to hold the Israeli government accountable and end its support for Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. We also urge the international community to prosecute the war criminals involved in the torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners.”
Yesterday, CAIR called for immediate international action after the far-right government of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that 40,000 Palestinians have been ethnically-cleansed from several refugee camps in the occupied West Bank.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com