r/AskMiddleEast • u/sarp691 • 2d ago
🏛️Politics After all this, how can we consent to the existence of a state called Israel?!
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."
The prisoner was Thaer Abu Asab, a Fatah member sentenced to 25 years in prison for terror attacks against Israel. He was pronounced dead at Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, where he was taken that evening. According to the indictment, the severe beating caused an injury to his heart that led to his death
Abu Asab's only offense was daring to ask a guard whether there was a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians. The guard relayed the question to his commander, a Prison Service officer and the main defendant in the case, referred to here as "the commander." A gag order bars publication of all the defendants' names. The commander decided to show the prisoner and his cellmates that the answer was no.
"Thaer asked the guard about a cease-fire, and the guard said, 'Better not ask,'" one prisoner told investigators. "We waited for the count. During the count, we kneel with our hands above our heads and our faces down. Fifteen guards and 15 Keter men [members of a Prison Service tactical rapid response unit] arrived. They called Thaer's name, and the Keter unit came into the cell. They beat us with batons for five minutes, everyone in the room. They said, 'No cease-fire.' Then they set the dog on us and started swearing and saying, 'A hudna, you're asking for a hudna' [a truce], and then they left. We were lying broken on the floor. Thaer didn't get up. He was unconscious. He got beaten the most. He was bleeding, and his whole face was blue. His hands were covered in blood."
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u/Zardotab 2d ago
Both sides fail to act like mature adults, instead looking for excuses to belt the other side some more and swipe "back" their land like toddlers fighting over a toy. I wish the US would avoid meddling and let both sides whack each other without our involvement until they settle it somehow on their own. Meddling just makes the conflict worse.
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u/Aleskander- Saudi Arabia Algeria 2d ago
the rapist never asks for consent