AIBU to be horrified by reports of abuse in Israeli prisons?

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Trigger warning. It’s a horrific read

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.premium/baby-an-update-hes-just-died-israeli-guards-texts-reveal-abuse-in-prison/000001a0-7ab4-d46f-a5ef-7bbe46360000

‘We got tired of beating them': After a Palestinian prisoner died at Ketziot Prison in 2023, investigators uncovered Israeli Prison Service guards boasting about beatings and implicating their commanders

Only the spilled blood bore witness to what happened in Cell 6 of Wing 24 at Ketziot Prison in November 2023. Those involved that night maintained the prison's usual code of silence. But WhatsApp messages the guards exchanged as events unfolded, later seized by investigators, revealed some of the horror.

"You're going to be proud of me, of my shift. After what happened, the count took two hours and 23 minutes. Draw your own conclusions," one female guard wrote to her partner, also a guard. She added: "They're doing CPR in the clinic right now, baby! God willing, that son of a thousand whores will die."

Another guard sent an excited update: "Holy shit, what a count. We fucked them up so bad." A third texted a friend: "What an insane count. There's never been anything like it. We poured cheese on them, cracked some eggs [the Hebrew word for eggs is also slang for testicles]. So much blood in the wings." She then added: "OMG, they're doing CPR on a prisoner because we beat him. He's dead. Listen, it's funny how it all happened in an instant: Boom, count. Boom, dead prisoner."

It is utterly horrific. And world powers are supporting it.

Its been going on for years, rape, torture, beatings, some of those prisoners are just teenage boys too. The world turns a blind eye 😡😡

Weird AIBU. Do you think many on mumsnet support this?

Wouldn't be surprised if there were some who would completely deny it happens.

Unfortunately the pro Israel supporters will have the same comeback for this. 'But they started it' Brutal.

I read this yesterday and was shocked by both what is happening and the joy that it seemed to bring to the perpetrators. It's really difficult to imagine celebrating killing and beating people who you have cornered in a cell, no matter what the person may or may not have done.

Yes it must take a special level of depravity, its very chilling.

It’s worse even than that, it seems https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/secret-systems-used-by-israel-in-mass-killings-of-gaza-civilians-revealed-in-new-film?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other