Jews, Camps, and the Red Cross
A mini-controversy has broken out over a new research paper that analyzes four detention camps Israel ran during and after the 1948 war. There the Israelis held some 5000 Palestinians, who were subject to forced labor, beatings, torture, and ritual humiliations. Writing in Haaretz, Amira Hass cites the testimony of one former inmate, who claims that prisoners were lined up and ordered to strip naked as a punishment for the escape of two prisoners at night. [Jewish] adults and children came from the nearby #kibbutz to watch us line up naked and laugh. To us this was most degrading.
▻http://coreyrobin.com/2014/11/02/jews-camps-and-the-red-cross
#camp_de_détention #travail_forcé #Palestine #Israël #humiliation
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