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The cages are getting smaller and more abusive.

The United States government has placed detained immigrants in solitary confinement more than 14,000 times in the last five years, and the average duration is almost twice the 15-day threshold that the United Nations has said may constitute torture, according to a new analysis of federal records by researchers at Harvard and the nonprofit group Physicians for Human Rights.

The report, based on government records from 2018 through 2023 and interviews with several dozen former detainees, noted cases of extreme physical, verbal and sexual abuse for immigrants held in solitary cells.

Overall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining more than 38,000 people -- up from about 15,000 at the start of the Biden administration in January 2021

Solitary confinement placements in the third quarter of 2023 were 61 percent higher than in the third quarter of the previous year, according to ICE's quarterly reports.

More than 680 cases of isolation lasted at least three months, the records show; 42 of them lasted more than one year.

 

Spoiler: it's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again (joined by 11 other ministers this time)

 

Spoiler: it's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again (joined by 11 other ministers this time).

 

An Israeli tank attack on a United Nations center sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians has killed at least nine people and wounded 75 others in Gaza’s second largest city, senior U.N. humanitarian officials said Wednesday.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What does Substack plan to do with the profits that it makes from hosting Nazi content?

[–] [email protected] 122 points 11 months ago (11 children)

A vote for not killing their babies is a vote for killing our babies

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call it what it is: terrorist attacks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, Al-Shifa was where Israel attacked the ambulance convoy and destroyed the hospital's solar panels.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. The hospital you're referring to is Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. And the "rocket" from the footage you're referring to has been proven to have been an Iron Dome projectile.

Israel has also attacked Al-Shifa hospital, Al-Quds hospital, the Indonesian hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, and the Qatari hospital described in the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A. The 1.5 million people have not "escaped" or been displaced "from Gaza", they've been forced to move to different places in the Gaza Strip: shelters predominantly. There's no ingress/egress from Gaza. It's basically a giant open-air prison.

Israel erected a giant cage around the land boundary of the whole strip in 1993. There's only 3 exits, all of which are closed: the Rafah crossing into Egypt, the Kerem Shalom crossing at the corner where Israel and Egypt touch, and the Erez crossing into Israel in the north.

Israel enforces a blockade of the shoreline, and a no fly zone. They destroyed Gaza's airport in 2001.

B. "More than half" is doing some pretty heavy lifting. 1.5 million is closer to 75%.

C. 10,022 / 2,048,000 = 0.489355%. Since the post yesterday, Israel has killed another 283 people which brings it up to 10,305 / 2,048,000 = 0.503%.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An AI can't be fined or imprisoned.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait until you see what files the IDF has

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And said afterwards that they did it because they claimed there were "terrorists" in the hospital, before backtracking and deleting the tweets

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. That's why Israel shouldn't be surprised that Hamas retaliated a couple of weeks ago after years of Israel's large-scale killing sprees.

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