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Israel’s Highest Court Gives Shin Bet “a Green Light to Continue With Torture”
Israeli onlookers in Tel Aviv are amused by an activist’s depiction of torture techniques used to extract information from Palestinian prisoners, on the U.N.-sponsored International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2004. (TAL COHEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2018, pp. 8-9
The Nakba Continues
By Jonathan Cook
FOR THE FIRST time in its history, an interrogator from Israel’s much-feared secret police agency, the Shin Bet, is to face a criminal investigation over allegations of torture.
It will be the first probe of the Shin Bet since Israel’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling nearly two decades ago prohibiting, except in extraor...