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Thursday, September 3, 2020

PCR Covid 19 Tests are Worthless

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Firefox works but you have to bring it up in a new window.

 I am not sure how many other browsers are messing up if one is leave message in the comments. 

https://shadowsbearsoutlook.blogspot.com/2020/10/some-videos-are-messed-up-in-some.html

 Update July 17, 2021

Law & Order VOF (Victims of Fauci)
 HIV/AIDS was the dress rehearsal for CoronaHoax. Sell the world a fake "virus", get billions of dollars, forced testing and toxic drugs, everybody believes it.
Down farther there is a lot more on the HIV/AIDS hoax. Be sure to check out the Alive and Well web site. It is very informative. AZT certainly did cause a lot of deaths it is a Chemo Drug. Chemo drugs destroy your immune system. 
 
 

 He used the Gary Null interview with Kary Mullis in the above video, really good interview. Here's the full two hour interview:

 

Kary Mullis The full interview by Gary Null
If you can download this video as youtube will probably delete it.  

 
 
NO ONE HAS EVER ISOLATED, PURIFIED AND/OR SCIENTIFICALLY VERIFIED AND PROVEN THE EXISTENCE OF ANY AND ALL VIRUSES AT ANYTIME, AT ANY PLACE, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!
 
Over the last several months we have requested from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) evidence for the isolation and existence for the any and all viruses, including CoV – 2 and 19, MERS, Influenza, Polio, Measles, HIV, XMRV, HTLV-1, HTLV-III/LAV, HPV, Ebola, Zika, just to name a few of the so-called viruses, disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
 
Update May 24, 2021
 
Sweden Says PCR Tests “Cannot be Used to Determine Whether Someone Is Contagious”
 
 According to the Swedish Public Health Agency, PCR technology cannot distinguish between viruses capable of infecting cells and viruses that have been neutralized in the immune system. As a result, these tests “cannot be used to determine whether someone is contagious or not.” They emphasize what many other experts in the field have been emphasizing during the entire pandemic, that,
 

Update April 20, 2021 

 

We know the PCR tests don't work - now
the LF Tests don't work either - leaked emails 

Report From the UK Column News 

 

 


The Significant Events needed to Create a "Global Pandemic" to Control the Outcome. 

 

 

EXC: Bill Gates Foundation Funded Genomics Firm ‘Mining’ DNA Data Through COVID Tests.

 https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/bgi-genomics-gates-foundation-collab/


Randy Hillier. Ontario MPP 

He is right there are two many cycles in the testing. The more cycles the more false positives you get. Healthy people are not infectious.

 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO 

Questions: The Truth About COVID Testing September 30, 2020


  Update December 31, 2020

The criminal WHO blows its own cover: fake PCR test

by Jon Rappoport

December 31, 2020

 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/12/31/the-criminal-who-blows-its-own-cover-fake-pcr-test/

 Update December 8, 2020 

 

NEW DETAILS IN COVID TESTING SCANDAL

New details have emerged about the test used for #COVID19, highlighting serious inaccuracies in results and past comments by the tests’ creator doubting the accuracy of PCR testing. With Dell Bigtree

Direct link https://www.bitchute.com/video/vng3VwB0taDX/

 

 Update December 19, 2020


This deals with the sequencing Quite an interesting read.

The genetic sequences used in PCRs to detect suspected SARS-CoV-2 and to diagnose cases of illness and death attributed to Covid-19 are present in dozens of sequences of the human genome itself and in those of about a hundred microbes.

Evidence Covid Virus does not exist

Boom: Florida forcing labs to report number of PCR test cycles—game changer


 Update November 4, 2020

This is a long read. They still cannot find any proof, they have Isolated the Virus

They used the Freedom Of Information to try and find the Isolated Virus. 

Seems no one, has any records of it being Isolated. They also looked in other countries as well.  

They are not the first to go looking.

Health Canada has no record of “COVID-19 virus” isolation

https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/health-canada-has-no-record-of-covid-19-virus-isolation/

German Lawyer leads law suit against "The Greatest Crime Against Humanity Ever Committed" 

This is the same fellow as in the above video. In this one he speaks English. 

October 4, 2020

 Reiner Fuellmich

 http://greencrowasthecrowflies.blogspot.com/2020/10/german-lawyer-leads-law-suit-against.html


October 16, 2020 Update


Rethinking AIDS President David Crowe has produced a comprehensive critique of the coronavirus theory that has led to panicked reactions, restricting movements of people in many countries. The article discusses the viral theory, disease definition, testing, transmission and treatment. Read the article...  https://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf

There is more information at the site. 

 https://www.rethinkingaids.com/index.php

 

The COVID Winter is Coming!

 We all know the testing is useless. Not fit for purpose and full of false positives.

 So faulty that even AHS, NHS and the CDC (and many others) have publicly stated this. Yet these tests are encouraged (sometimes demanded) and used as an excuse to shut down people’s lives, care homes, businesses and now schools.

 https://principia-scientific.com/the-covid-winter-is-coming/

 

The COVID-19 PCR Test Is Key to the Pandemic Fraud

 

Before his death in 2019 Mullis told reporters:

“Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.” –Kary Mullis, Inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction

Mullis often spoke out against using his test for diagnosing illnesses. So-called experts ignored the warning. But now, many independent scientists and medical professionals are coming forward to denounce the idiocy of governments, the media and NGO’s for pushing the number of novel coronavirus “cases” (not deaths) premised on spurious results from this problematic PCR test.

 https://principia-scientific.com/the-covid-19-pcr-test-is-key-to-the-pandemic-fraud/


 They are in Casedemic mode.  The Pandemic was over months ago.

Video: The Covid-19 “Second Wave”. “Red Zones”, Travel Bans, Quarantines, “Red Lists”

The Second Wave is Based on Fake Statistics

September 29, 2020

 https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-covid-19-second-wave-red-zones-travel-bans-quarantines-red-lists/5725243

Added Oct 12, 2020

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive – But What Does That Mean?

Well researched. 

 https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/your-coronavirus-test-is-positive-but-what-does-that-mean/

 

Tony Fauci is Corrupt to the Core!

By

Kevin Barrett

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/06/21/tony-fauci-is-corrupt/

Covid 19 tests are not reliable

Thank You RW

This will be rather long. It will also involve a bit about HIV tests as they are the same PCR tests being used for Covid 19.

The upside to being sloppy, is it is really easy to copy and paste, any of the information, to any place you want. It is a time saver. Do share. That is why it is all here.

Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless for Covid.   Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid19-pcr-tests-scientifically-meaningless/5717253?fbclid=IwAR14AsqIGHQr61WGNTHotvee6P2giz-jq0b6j4BFtJCkekg4Eq2N0zWPSas

The Test Set: Another Brick in the COVID-19 Disinformation Game Plan https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-test-set-another-brick-in-the-covid-19-disinformation-game-plan/5717040?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles

Dr. Bill Kurtin explains False Positive/Negative results in COVID 19 testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1Cy81qFTs

Video: COVID-19 “Fake” Data in Italy: Politician Slams False Numbers: Vittorio Sgarbi  https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-fake-data-in-italy-politician-slams-false-numbers-vittorio-sgarbi/5712274?fbclid=IwAR1Ph5ykyfDQnUfBKaidi0-vmd6h2SPS8BkNnA-p1cI9BMgThG2v94KtcQo

The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-cdc-confesses-to-lying-about-covid-19-death-numbers?fbclid=IwAR1_8umsPfEJpyYF1xXxnxAJ9Lm_MwYyv45ymLyoDVd_Ts8c4iCRQTsJYXE

Was the COVID-19 Test Meant to Detect a Virus?

A must to read

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/?fbclid=IwAR11dzCh76hzsKqZrX4Pv4WehxmgdMHIocpea_whjjxytthxhKEhxxfIZmA

How common are false-positive and false-negative COVID-19 tests?

A St. Luke’s ER doctor explains why it’s impossible to determine how many tests are false-positives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZyn6eOXQkQ

AIDS and the AZT Scandal: SPIN’s 1989 Feature, ‘Sins of Omission’

The story of AZT, one of the most toxic, expensive, and controversial drugs in the history of medicine

AZT is a form of chemotherapy,” says the man who invented the compound a quarter-century ago, Jerome Horwitz. “It is cytotoxic, and as such, it causes bone marrow toxicity and anemia.

You have to scroll past some blank spots just keep going down to find it all.

I have found four names for AZT there may be more.
Azidothymidine (AZT) in 1964 A Chemotherapy drug.
Zidovudine (AZT)
Retrovir (AZT)
Truvada (AZT)

A few quotes from the article.

August 17, 1989. Newspapers across America banner-headlined that AZT had been “proven to be effective in HIV antibody-positive, asymptomatic, and early ARC patients,” even though one of the panel’s main concerns was that the drug should only be used in a last-case scenario for critically-ill AIDS patients, due to the drug’s extreme toxicity. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.

The toxic effects of AZT, particularly bone marrow suppression and anemia, are so severe that up to 50 percent of all AIDS and ARC patients cannot tolerate it and have to be taken off it. In the approval letter that Burroughs Wellcome sent to the FDA, all of 50 additional side effects of AZT, aside from the most common ones, were listed. These included: loss of mental acuity, muscle spasms, rectal bleeding, and tremors.

With all that remains so uncertain about the effects of AZT, it seems criminal to advocate expanding its usage to healthy people, particularly since only a minuscule percentage of the HIV-infected population have actually developed ARC or AIDS.

https://www.spin.com/featured/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CYes%2C%20AZT%20is%20a%20form%20of%20chemotherapy%2C%E2%80%9D%20says,such%2C%20it%20causes%20bone%20marrow%20toxicity%20and%20anemia.

This site is dedicated to HIV

Alive and Well

There is a lot of information about testing. They used PCR tests, then as well. Check the testing section. There were up to 70 reasons, a person would test positive, even if they did not have HIV. They are using the same PCR test for Covid.

http://www.aliveandwell.org/

 

AIDS Experiments on Children in New York's Incarnation Center 'A Human Tragedy'

 Liam Scheff is the author of a series of articles exposing the Incarnation Children's Center's cruel experimentation on children - often orphans - who are subjected to excruciating multiple drug "treatments" for having tested positive in so-called HIV/AIDS tests.

 http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm

Why I Began Questioning HIV
Five people (Below) provide their account of why they began to question the HIV = AIDS = Death medical model:

Dr. Kary Mullis invented the (PCR test) Polymerase Chain Reaction
Dr. Rodney Richards
Neville Hodgkinson
Dr. Christian Fiala
Rian Malan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=vaMZ4NyNCwI&feature=emb_logo&fbclid=IwAR1Nx99fqeB0-0gjRw0zdowE6JWVXuqL7C8dbXr8AV5rum-iwLYSWmorjZo

 

Coronavirus: The Truth about PCR Test Kit from the Inventor and Other Experts

 https://www.weblyf.com/2020/05/coronavirus-the-truth-about-pcr-test-kit-from-the-inventor-and-other-experts/

 

HIV=AIDS: Fact or Fraud? A Stephen Allen film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4298&v=JTxvmKHYajQ&feature=emb_logo

How good were the PCR tests for HIV? Well they are not any good at all. Just like the ones for Covid are no good. They both use the same technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5166&v=BwgmzbnckII&feature=emb_logo

Covid tests are not reliable Part 2

August 25, 2020

There is no ”gold standard” for the Covid 19 test, meaning there is no purified isolation of Covid 19 to test against.

35,445 have died of so called Covid as of today – In recent years in Italy the number of people who have died from respiratory diseases has always been 53-55,000

Dr. Stefano Scoglio : here are my doubts about Coronavirus

http://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-CA&dl=en&lp=IT_EN&a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.medicinapiccoledosi.it%2fancora-radiazione-oggi-roberto-petrella%2f

Dr. Stefano Scoglio Original story http://www.medicinapiccoledosi.it/dubbi-sul-coronavirus/

COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose. There are a number of links in the report to also look up.

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/27/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/

Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Was Not They used PCR That certainly did not go well.

To read the story yo may have to enter your e-mail address and a pass word then they will let you read the entire story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html

PRESIDENT MAGUFULI OF TANZANIA EXPOSE COVID19 TEST KITS FOR BEING FAULTY, AND INACCURATE! WATCH WHY

He did not know at that time, that all the tests, were meaningless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTU5HXyd9gE&t=399s

Virus’ test revelations with David Icke and Andrew Kaufman

Dr Kaufman explains how the PCR tests work or don’t work I should say.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4bwTCk5pOiup/

National Security Alert: COVID Tests Scientifically Fraudulent, Epidemic of False Positives

https://www.globalresearch.ca/national-security-alert-covid-tests-scientifically-fraudulent-epidemic-false-positives/5720271?fbclid=IwAR3twOJbm7A7Ys7KqowAeXrxX1kDH2ItMvXV2by5DQEb_Iiu_P4kr6JwZxU

“Mass vaccinations are not harmless” Italian pediatrician Gabriella Lesmo

http://www.medicinapiccoledosi.it/mass-vaccinations-are-not-harmless-italian-pediatrician-gabriella-lesmo/

Video: COVID-19 “Fake” Data in Italy: Politician Slams False Numbers: Vittorio Sgarbi

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-fake-data-in-italy-politician-slams-false-numbers-vittorio-sgarbi/5712274?fbclid=IwAR1Ph5ykyfDQnUfBKaidi0-vmd6h2SPS8BkNnA-p1cI9BMgThG2v94KtcQo

 

How Accurate Is Coronavirus Testing? It Depends On The Test You Take

Point of Interest, there are many false positives too. If you get a false positive, you also get the wrong treatment, which can lead to death.

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/07/30/shira-doron-covid-19-testing-types-accuracy

 Thank You RW for all the work you do. 

I will share your work.

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Monday, February 23, 2015

Palestinian children tortured by Israeli authorities


Norman Finkelstein:  About Netanyahu 

Feb 23, 2015






Israelis torturing non-Jewish children. 2014 Australian documentary film. Viewer discretion.


Published on Feb 14, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL048x4msM

Alison Weir - The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel


August 1, 2014
Banned from the media journalist Alison Weir explains why this is happening 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UwcVP_k2Y&feature=youtu.be

New testimonies from Palestinian children tortured by Israeli authorities


Israel/Palestine

Ben Norton on June 5, 2014


Yesterday, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah), released a press release titled “Adalah to Attorney General: Shocking testimonies from Palestinian children who were tortured during arrest and interrogation.” The byline of the release serves as a chilling introduction to a recent investigation’s horrific findings:

[Israeli] Investigators threatened children with beatings, isolation, torturing their fathers and raping their mothers and sisters; children were denied food for dozens of hours unless they confessed to the charges against them.

Adalah has sent an “urgent letter” to Israeli Attorney General (AG) Yehuda Weinstein, “demanding an end to the practice of physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment against Palestinian children from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) during their arrest and interrogation by Israeli security personnel,” and calling for open criminal investigations so that those responsible can face due punishment for their serious crimes.

The letter was sent on 1 June 2014. As of the writing of this present article, no response has been received (or, if a response has been received, it has not yet been made public).
In its letter, Adalah relays the findings of a recent investigation conducted by Defense for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS). The organization’s lawyers compiled 21 testimonies made by Palestinian children who had been arrested, interrogated, and tortured by Israeli authorities. In its press release, Adalah writes

The dangerous practices described in the testimonies constitute serious criminal offenses such as assault, damage, threat, sexual harassment and other unlawful activity committed by security authorities, ranging from soldiers, to GSS interrogators, and to prison wardens.

It goes without saying such practices are in blatant violation of both Israeli and international law. Adalah’s attorneys also noted that Israel is in direct violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) treaty, to which it is a signatory. The CRC dictates that authorities immediately inform the child and any relatives as to what exactly is being charged against them (Israel regularly ignores this basic, fundamental right for many Palestinians, regardless of age—even Palestinian legislators). The CRC furthermore prohibits the use of physical or physiological pressure in interrogation and explicitly “forbids children’s exposure to any type of abuse, torture, humiliation and inhuman treatment.”

To those who pay close attention to Israel’s internal affairs, this investigation may not necessarily be surprising. Just last year, in its periodic review of Israel’s child rights record, the CRC expressed “its deepest concern about the reported practice of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian children arrested, prosecuted and detained by the military and the police, and about the State party’s failure to end these practices in spite of repeated concerns expressed by treaty bodies.”

The CRC corroborated much of what we will see in the following testimonies, including systematic “physical and verbal violence, humiliation, painful restraints, hooding of the head and face in a sack, threatened with death, physical violence, and sexual assault against themselves or members of their family, restricted access to toilet, food and water.” The CRC report even explained that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) used Palestinian children as human shields multiple times.

What this new investigation does offer us, however, is a more detailed picture of what many Palestinian children in occupied Palestine must go through, based on first-hand accounts of the brave young survivors themselves.

The following is a collection of points made in the children’s testimonies, as outlined in Adalah’s press release:
- The majority of arrests were made during late-hour night raids.
– Palestinians’ homes were “violently broken into by dozens of soldiers who intimidated both the children and their families.” In 100% of the testimonies, children said they were bound and blindfolded, before being transferred hundreds of meters away in military vehicles.

– In many of the testimonies, children revealed that soldiers went into their rooms, “aggressively woke them up, and shackled their hands and feet while they were still in bed.”

– In one testimony, a child who had been sleeping in his bed when the “brutal kicks of the soldiers” woke him up, had to have his finger amputated. Israeli soldiers ignored his wounded finger, tying up his hands and feet, for over 12 hours, leading to an inoperable infection.

– When family members inquired as to why exactly their young children were being harassed, assaulted, bound, blindfolded, and taken away in the middle of the night, Israeli soldiers often replied by beating and insulting them.

– In the preponderance of the arrests, neither children nor their families knew why they were being taken away. Family members would not be allowed to accompany the minor, and they would not be informed as to where Israeli authorities would be taking them.

– While soldiers were transferring the detained children to interrogation sites, soldiers regularly “used extreme physical and verbal abuse against them, including beatings, smashing the child’s head against a wall, threats of violence, and threats of sexual assault and rape.”

– In one testimony, a child was separated from his family so that soldiers could interrogate him. When finished, the soldiers ordered in four of the child’s friends, to see their peer being beaten before their eyes. In this torturous event, the detained child “confessed” that he, along with his friends, had thrown stones. Later, however, the same child admitted he had only confessed in order to stop the beatings, and he withdrew his “confessions.”

This is what Israeli officials do to Palestinian children who they think threw a few stones.
Adalah’s press release also notes that Israeli investigators, at interrogation and detention sites, regularly employed interrogation techniques that are forbidden under international law:

– 100% of the detained children’s interrogations lasted many hours. A majority said they were denied food, water, and access to a toilet. In some cases, children, who had been denied food for dozens of hours, were told they would only be fed if they confessed.

– 100% of the detained children “were left handcuffed on both their hands and feet while seated on a low chair.”

– Most of the detained children were stripped naked and strip-searched numerous times. Those “who refused to be strip-searched while naked were violently assaulted by the wardens.”
– 0 of the investigations were conducted in the company of a lawyer or relative, in flagrant violation of Israeli law.

– When children asked to meet with a lawyer, investigators told them it was “forbidden.”

– 100% of children were held in solidarity confinement for multiple days, and in some cases even weeks. One child testified that he had been held in uninterrupted solidarity confinement for 28 days.
and
– 100% of children “described their cells as being in very poor conditions.” Cells were windowless and incredibly small; they held only a small mattress and a foul-smelling toilet. It was not permitted that children lean on the rough walls. The cells were also lit 24 hours per day by a bright light. This light “hurt the children’s eyes” and made it difficult for children to fall asleep; from this forced sleep deprivation, children lost a sense of time, and presumably suffered from other ailments associated with sleep loss.

This is by no means the first time Adalah has contacted Israel’s Attorney General. On 22 March 2007, the human rights organization contacted AG Menachem Mazuz, requesting a criminal investigation. Israel’s General Security Services’ (GSS) had been tampering with political and legal documents published by Arab Israeli NGOs and scholars.

Two months later, Mazuz responded to the letter. He defended the GSS’s actions, saying they were “undertaken in coordination and consultation with the relevant parties within the legal apparatus,” reaffirming the GSS’s own insistence that it “is required to thwart the subversive activity of entities seeking to harm the character of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, even if their activity is conducted through democratic means.”

A year before that, on 13 August 2006, Adalah placed an ad in Haaretz. The somewhat unconventional ad was an open letter to AG Mazuz. In it, the organization wrote
We wish to draw your attention to the judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which convicted senior commanders and politicians for killing civilians and the destruction of villages and houses, among other charges. The Tribunal imposed sentences of between 15 and 45 years’ imprisonment.

This provocative ad followed another, published in the same paper—Israel’s oldest newspaper, and the most widely read English-language Israeli publication—only 10 days before. In this bold public warning, somewhat reminiscent of cigarette warning labels—an arresting, vibrant red border contrasting strikingly with drab black and white text—a variety of Israeli human rights organizations, including Adalah, Amnesty International, the Arab Association for Human Rights, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, called upon the Israeli government to act urgently towards the declaration of a ceasefire that will lead to the end of killing and destruction in Israel, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and remove the threat hanging over the lives and property of every civilian …

WE WARN THAT:
employing military force against civilian targets, bombing residential areas, turning thousands of people into refugees, and causing long-term damage to civilian infrastructure is
FORBIDDEN UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Adalah’s most recent letter might lack the panache of its missive brethren, yet its substance is just as worrisome.

We patiently await Yehuda Weinstein’s response. If history is any indicator, nevertheless (and it almost always is), the reply will not be positive, and the Israeli Attorney General—the individual in charge of the legal system of what is often called “the only democracy in the Middle East”—will fail to do his job. Israel will still be a country in which Palestinians live under a completely different set of laws.

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/testimonies-palestinian-authorities


 


Israel government 'tortures' children by keeping them in cages, human rights group says



The NGO called for Israel’s definition of torture to be changed after children were kept in outdoor holding pens during winter in a practice which had been going on ‘for months’


An Israeli human rights organisation has accused the government of torturing children after it emerged some were kept in outdoor cages during winter.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) published a report which claimed children suspected of minor crimes were subjected to “public caging”, threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation.

It came as the government’s Public Petitions Committee held a hearing to discuss the issue, which the PCATI said must be addressed with a change to the law.

The country’s Public Defender’s Office (PDO) recently released details of one particularly shocking visit by its lawyers to a detention facility.

“During our visit, held during a fierce storm that hit the state, attorneys met detainees who described to them a shocking picture: in the middle of the night dozens of detainees were transferred to the external iron cages built outside the IPS transition facility in Ramla,” the PDO wrote on its website.
“It turns out that this procedure, under which prisoners waited outside in cages, lasted for several months, and was verified by other officials.”

Although the practice of keeping children caged was reported to have lasted for months, there is no suggestion that the individuals were so detained for that period. 

According to the Jerusalem Post, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called for the practice of keeping children in cages to be stopped as soon as she learned of it, and the prison service issued a statement saying the situation had been improved following the “criticism”.

The PCATI said this was not enough, and called for the country’s relatively high threshold for what can be classed “acts of abuse” to be lowered in the case of children.

Their report argued: “Torture is a means of attacking an individual’s fundamental modes of psychological and social functioning” as described in the Istanbul Protocol. Furthermore, “torture can impact a child directly or indirectly. The impact can be due to the child’s having been tortured or detained, the torture of parents or close family members or witnessing torture and violence.”
It said the incident in Ramla was just one example of a broad range of abuses being suffered.
Yesterday the Knesset committee said Israeli law as it currently exists was being violated by the manner of arrest and detention conditions of Palestinian children, the Post reported.

The committee also took issue with the fact that the government appeared not to keep records of the frequency or scope of disputed practices like midnight arrests.

The PCATI quoted figures from the campaign group Defence for Children International's Palestine section, saying: “The majority of Palestinian child detainees are charged with throwing stones, and 74 per cent experience physical violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation.”

It said Israel was the only country to systematically prosecute children in its military courts, and added that “no Israeli children come into contact with the military court system”.

Update: After original publication of its report, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel released an amended version, acknowledging that the information from the Public Defender’s Office about child prisoners being kept in cages did not refer specifically to Palestinians.  We have amended our report accordingly and wish to make the position clear.

htmlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-government-tortures-children-by-keeping-them-in-cages-human-rights-group-says-9032826.html



New testimonies from Palestinian children tortured by Israeli authorities


Israel/Palestine

Ben Norton on June 5, 2014 




Yesterday, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah), released a press release titled “Adalah to Attorney General: Shocking testimonies from Palestinian children who were tortured during arrest and interrogation.” The byline of the release serves as a chilling introduction to a recent investigation’s horrific findings:

[Israeli] Investigators threatened children with beatings, isolation, torturing their fathers and raping their mothers and sisters; children were denied food for dozens of hours unless they confessed to the charges against them.

Adalah has sent an “urgent letter” to Israeli Attorney General (AG) Yehuda Weinstein, “demanding an end to the practice of physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment against Palestinian children from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) during their arrest and interrogation by Israeli security personnel,” and calling for open criminal investigations so that those responsible can face due punishment for their serious crimes.

The letter was sent on 1 June 2014. As of the writing of this present article, no response has been received (or, if a response has been received, it has not yet been made public).

In its letter, Adalah relays the findings of a recent investigation conducted by Defense for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS). The organization’s lawyers compiled 21 testimonies made by Palestinian children who had been arrested, interrogated, and tortured by Israeli authorities. In its press release, Adalah writes

The dangerous practices described in the testimonies constitute serious criminal offenses such as assault, damage, threat, sexual harassment and other unlawful activity committed by security authorities, ranging from soldiers, to GSS interrogators, and to prison wardens.

It goes without saying such practices are in blatant violation of both Israeli and international law. Adalah’s attorneys also noted that Israel is in direct violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) treaty, to which it is a signatory. The CRC dictates that authorities immediately inform the child and any relatives as to what exactly is being charged against them (Israel regularly ignores this basic, fundamental right for many Palestinians, regardless of age—even Palestinian legislators). The CRC furthermore prohibits the use of physical or physiological pressure in interrogation and explicitly “forbids children’s exposure to any type of abuse, torture, humiliation and inhuman treatment.”

To those who pay close attention to Israel’s internal affairs, this investigation may not necessarily be surprising. Just last year, in its periodic review of Israel’s child rights record, the CRC expressed “its deepest concern about the reported practice of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian children arrested, prosecuted and detained by the military and the police, and about the State party’s failure to end these practices in spite of repeated concerns expressed by treaty bodies.”

The CRC corroborated much of what we will see in the following testimonies, including systematic “physical and verbal violence, humiliation, painful restraints, hooding of the head and face in a sack, threatened with death, physical violence, and sexual assault against themselves or members of their family, restricted access to toilet, food and water.” The CRC report even explained that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) used Palestinian children as human shields multiple times.

What this new investigation does offer us, however, is a more detailed picture of what many Palestinian children in occupied Palestine must go through, based on first-hand accounts of the brave young survivors themselves.

The following is a collection of points made in the children’s testimonies, as outlined in Adalah’s press release:

- The majority of arrests were made during late-hour night raids.

– Palestinians’ homes were “violently broken into by dozens of soldiers who intimidated both the children and their families.” In 100% of the testimonies, children said they were bound and blindfolded, before being transferred hundreds of meters away in military vehicles.

– In many of the testimonies, children revealed that soldiers went into their rooms, “aggressively woke them up, and shackled their hands and feet while they were still in bed.”

– In one testimony, a child who had been sleeping in his bed when the “brutal kicks of the soldiers” woke him up, had to have his finger amputated. Israeli soldiers ignored his wounded finger, tying up his hands and feet, for over 12 hours, leading to an inoperable infection.

– When family members inquired as to why exactly their young children were being harassed, assaulted, bound, blindfolded, and taken away in the middle of the night, Israeli soldiers often replied by beating and insulting them.

– In the preponderance of the arrests, neither children nor their families knew why they were being taken away. Family members would not be allowed to accompany the minor, and they would not be informed as to where Israeli authorities would be taking them.

– While soldiers were transferring the detained children to interrogation sites, soldiers regularly “used extreme physical and verbal abuse against them, including beatings, smashing the child’s head against a wall, threats of violence, and threats of sexual assault and rape.”

– In one testimony, a child was separated from his family so that soldiers could interrogate him. When finished, the soldiers ordered in four of the child’s friends, to see their peer being beaten before their eyes. In this torturous event, the detained child “confessed” that he, along with his friends, had thrown stones. Later, however, the same child admitted he had only confessed in order to stop the beatings, and he withdrew his “confessions.”

This is what Israeli officials do to Palestinian children who they think threw a few stones.
Adalah’s press release also notes that Israeli investigators, at interrogation and detention sites, regularly employed interrogation techniques that are forbidden under international law:

– 100% of the detained children’s interrogations lasted many hours. A majority said they were denied food, water, and access to a toilet. In some cases, children, who had been denied food for dozens of hours, were told they would only be fed if they confessed.

– 100% of the detained children “were left handcuffed on both their hands and feet while seated on a low chair.”

– Most of the detained children were stripped naked and strip-searched numerous times. Those “who refused to be strip-searched while naked were violently assaulted by the wardens.”

– 0 of the investigations were conducted in the company of a lawyer or relative, in flagrant violation of Israeli law.

– When children asked to meet with a lawyer, investigators told them it was “forbidden.”

– 100% of children were held in solidarity confinement for multiple days, and in some cases even weeks. One child testified that he had been held in uninterrupted solidarity confinement for 28 days.
and

– 100% of children “described their cells as being in very poor conditions.” Cells were windowless and incredibly small; they held only a small mattress and a foul-smelling toilet. It was not permitted that children lean on the rough walls. The cells were also lit 24 hours per day by a bright light. This light “hurt the children’s eyes” and made it difficult for children to fall asleep; from this forced sleep deprivation, children lost a sense of time, and presumably suffered from other ailments associated with sleep loss.

This is by no means the first time Adalah has contacted Israel’s Attorney General. On 22 March 2007, the human rights organization contacted AG Menachem Mazuz, requesting a criminal investigation. Israel’s General Security Services’ (GSS) had been tampering with political and legal documents published by Arab Israeli NGOs and scholars.

Two months later, Mazuz responded to the letter. He defended the GSS’s actions, saying they were “undertaken in coordination and consultation with the relevant parties within the legal apparatus,” reaffirming the GSS’s own insistence that it “is required to thwart the subversive activity of entities seeking to harm the character of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, even if their activity is conducted through democratic means.”

A year before that, on 13 August 2006, Adalah placed an ad in Haaretz. The somewhat unconventional ad was an open letter to AG Mazuz. In it, the organization wrote
We wish to draw your attention to the judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which convicted senior commanders and politicians for killing civilians and the destruction of villages and houses, among other charges. The Tribunal imposed sentences of between 15 and 45 years’ imprisonment.

This provocative ad followed another, published in the same paper—Israel’s oldest newspaper, and the most widely read English-language Israeli publication—only 10 days before. In this bold public warning, somewhat reminiscent of cigarette warning labels—an arresting, vibrant red border contrasting strikingly with drab black and white text—a variety of Israeli human rights organizations, including Adalah, Amnesty International, the Arab Association for Human Rights, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, called upon the Israeli government to act urgently towards the declaration of a ceasefire that will lead to the end of killing and destruction in Israel, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and remove the threat hanging over the lives and property of every civilian …

WE WARN THAT:
employing military force against civilian targets, bombing residential areas, turning thousands of people into refugees, and causing long-term damage to civilian infrastructure is
FORBIDDEN UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Adalah’s most recent letter might lack the panache of its missive brethren, yet its substance is just as worrisome.

We patiently await Yehuda Weinstein’s response. If history is any indicator, nevertheless (and it almost always is), the reply will not be positive, and the Israeli Attorney General—the individual in charge of the legal system of what is often called “the only democracy in the Middle East”—will fail to do his job. Israel will still be a country in which Palestinians live under a completely different set of laws.

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/testimonies-palestinian-authorities