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April 18, 2024

Detained U.N. Workers Accuse Israel of Obtaining False Confessions Through Torture
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The U.N. refugee agency UNRWA has accused Israeli security forces of
torturing imprisoned U.N. workers in an effort to extract false
confessions about the agency's ties to Hamas. The accusations are part
of a new UNRWA report that documents how Palestinians detained in Israel
have been attacked by dogs, deprived of food, forced into cages, beaten
with metal bars and tortured with nail guns and electric batons. One
Palestinian child released from Israeli prison had dog bite wounds on
their body.


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