📌 Palestinian Prisoner’s Society: Sde Teiman Rape Case Charges Dropped, Greenlighting More Torture and Sexual Abuse

March 12, 2026

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – The head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Abdullah Al-Zighari, said Thursday evening that the Israeli occupation prosecution’s decision to drop the charges against the soldiers accused of raping a detainee from Gaza in the “Sde Teiman” camp was expected, given the level of complicity that has been observed in the policies of the occupation’s judicial system. This complicity, said al-Zighari, appeared in a blatant and unprecedented manner following the crime of genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
 
👉🏼This dangerous decision effectively reflects the nature of the occupation, particularly since these crimes occur with support from the top echelons of the political, military and legal establishment. Accordingly, this incident cannot be treated as an individual act, but rather as an expression of an existing institutional structure—especially in light of the significant impact of this incident after the video leaked from “Sde Teiman” military camp. 

👉🏼Al-Zighari emphasized that this decision constitutes an additional green light for soldiers and prison guards to continue committing crimes against Palestinian and Arab prisoners and detainees, including crimes of rape, which have become one of the most prominent crimes marking a shift in how the level of brutality in prisons since the start of the genocide—reaching unprecedented levels.

👉🏼Sexual assaults have been among the most serious systematic crimes documented by Palestinian prisoner groups, including cases of rape, as well as humiliating and degrading strip searches, harassment, and the deliberate beating of detainees on sensitive body parts. These acts occur within a framework of systematic policies of humiliation and torture that have effectively turned prisons into a network of torture camps.

👉🏼Al-Zighari said that the Israeli occupation system, through the brutality and genocide it has practiced, has continued even after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement. In practice, it has exposed the collapse of its claims regarding a legal and human-rights framework—not only through its explicit violations of international conventions, norms, and agreements, and through the entrenched policy of impunity over decades that has been a central cause of the current reality, but also by establishing force and violence as the governing rule of its conduct, even in cases it claimed to review through its judicial bodies.

👉🏼The Palestinian Prisoner's Society stresses that continuation of this reality does not affect Palestinians alone, but threatens the system of justice and rights on a global level. The continued international inability and complicity regarding these crimes will not stop at the borders of occupied Palestine, but will extend to peoples around the world, at a time when the appeals, facts, and data presented by human rights organizations to international bodies are no longer able to create any real breakthrough that would guarantee the protection of prisoners in occupation prisons.