The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas.
“Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they were forced to (make) confessions under torture and ill-treatment. These false confessions were in response to questioning about relations between UNRWA and Hamas and involvement in the 7 October attack against Israel,” UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma said in a statement.
Israel has accused at least 12 staffers from the UN Relief and Works Agency of being involved in the October 7 terrorist attacks and has alleged that about 12% of UNRWA’s 13,000 staffers are members of Hamas or other Palestinian militant groups. Israeli officials have said some of the information about the 12 staffers involved in October 7 was obtained through cell phone data and other sources. UNRWA says it has fired 10 of the 12 accused staffers and that the other two are dead. CNN cannot confirm the allegations.
Torture never works because if they’re innocent, they’ll eventually confess to anything to stop the torture.
It’s why Israel keeps so many detainees without charging. Anytime they need a Boogeyman or excuse, they torture someone into admitting they’re Hamas, then get them to name others in whatever area they want to attack.
Treat your detainees bad enough, and you’ve got people begging to “confess” just to get out.
Torture has worked for israel for over 75 years. Lies and false confession is what it’s built on.