Israel's role in the Abu Ghraib scandal highlights its influence on U.S. interrogation techniques, with Israeli methods of torture and humiliation being implemented in Iraq, exacerbating regional instability and human rights abuses.
Three Palestinian males were taken into custody by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied West Bank hamlet of Wadi al-Seeq, barely five days after the Gaza War began. After being stripped to their undergarments, they endured severe physical abuse with an iron pipe, were blinded, humiliated in photos, and endured the ultimate humiliation of being urinated on.
One victim, Mohammad Matar, compared the cruelty to the infamous Abu Ghraib affair in Iraq when he described the experience to the Israeli daily Haaretz. He said, "It's exactly like what happened there." "Abu Ghraib and the Israeli army together."
Two weeks later, Israel invaded Gaza on foot, and the sexual abuse and humiliation of Palestinians persisted and intensified. Large gro...
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