At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

"The director general of the health ministry, Dr Munir al-Bursh, and a spokesperson for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where the bodies are being examined, said a document found inside each body bag indicated the bodies all came from Sde Teiman, a military base in the Negev desert where, according to photos and testimonies published by the Guardian last year, Palestinian detainees were held in cages, blindfolded and handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear nappies."

"The document tags inside the body bags are written in Hebrew and clearly indicate that the remains were held at Sde Teiman, Bursh said. The tags also showed that DNA tests had been carried out on some of them there. Last year the Israeli army launched a criminal investigation, which is continuing, into the deaths of 36 prisoners detained at Sde Teiman."

At least 135 mutilated Palestinian bodies returned by Israel to Gaza were held at the Sde Teiman detention centre in the Negev desert. Hebrew document tags inside each body bag indicate the remains were held at Sde Teiman and that DNA tests were performed there. Photographs and testimonies from the previous year show detainees blindfolded, handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds, held in cages and forced to wear nappies. Medical examinations and field observations document signs of direct gunfire at point-blank range, crushing beneath tank tracks, and other indications of murder, summary execution and systematic torture. Nasser hospital in Khan Younis is examining the bodies. An Israeli army criminal investigation into 36 prisoner deaths at Sde Teiman is ongoing.

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