Israeli journalist, intelligence officer confirms widespread torture of Palestinians at “house of horrors” HaKirya military compound
Ynet Knesset correspondent Amichai Attali dropped a major bombshell this week about how Palestinians are being tortured en masse at the HaKirya military compound in Tel Aviv where the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is based.
A reserve intelligence officer in the Israeli army, Attali described "masses" of Palestinians who were left "lying ... in handcuffs" while IDF soldiers blasted nonstop Israeli music at them as part of their torture regimen.
Attali described what he observed at the HaKirya facility as "some kind of house of horrors, with screams coming from all directions."
An Israeli journalist has delivered horrifying details of his service as an intel officer in a detention center for Palestinians abducted after Oct 7
His testimony appears to offer an unprecedented first person account of torture by Israeli forceshttps://t.co/pWPQR4Gw1Q pic.twitter.com/NbWSnCJyQN
— The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) November 8, 2024
(Related: According to the United Nations, Israel is committing "unprecedented" crimes against children in the Middle East.)
Encountering the face of evil
As a reservist who was there for much of the torture, Attali witnessed first-hand the horrors he describes in the above video.
"I still haven't really processed it," he told podcast host Yair Sharkey about his "encounter with the face of evil."
Trying in a dissociative way to recall the nightmare of it all, which for him lasted 227 days, Attali recalled "scenes" in which "a lot of people are concentrated" in the jail space. The interrogations there were supposed to be "sterile," but it is clear from Attali's account that cruel and unusual punishment is taking place in Israel against Palestinian captives.
All across social media, video footage is circulating that shows Israeli soldiers filming blindfolded Palestinians as the prisoners are subjected to endless repetitions of a popular Israeli children's song called "Ayeka," by Shuli Rand.
"You know, it's a song I like but they managed to make me tired of it," Attali joked with a laugh.
After recalling the song in an upbeat way, Attali grew sober and introspective:
"Like, you say to yourself, 'What is this place I'm in?' To tell you the truth, even later, during the interrogation phase ... even during the so-called 'sterile investigation,' your goal is to extract intelligence."
It turns out that many Israeli people are really stressed out about the war, this according to new research from Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi (KSM).
Dr. Tal Patalon, a palliative care physician who heads KSM, revealed on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, that many Israelis have been traumatized by what their government is doing in the Gaza Strip.
Epidemiological research on data collected from 1.1 million people 21 years of age and older shows a 317 percent spike among Israelis in the use of short-term anti-anxiety medication like Xanax.
"To put that figure in perspective, the study found a 28 percent increase in the likelihood of purchasing anti-anxiety medication while there were military conflicts, and during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, there was a 44 percent increase in that likelihood," reported Jewish Press News.
Before October 7, anxiety treatment patterns in Israel were isolated and location-specific, but ever since that time the entire nation is suffering. Women are 81 percent more likely than men to start taking anxiety medication, the research further found.
"The events of October 7 drastically changed reality for everyone – patients and healthcare providers alike. The sharp increase in anxiety medication use highlights the urgent need for tailored mental health interventions in acute settings during times of conflict," Dr. Patalon said.
In the comments, someone wrote that what is happening in Israel and Gaza right now is "a modern-day Holocaust."
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