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Documents reveal torture at Israeli-run prison in Lebanon

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Newly declassified documents from Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service have revealed shocking details of torture, hunger, and denial of medical care that detainees were exposed to in the Khiam Prison in south Lebanon. The prison, which was built in 1985, was run by Israel and its proxy militia the South Lebanon Army until it closed in 2000 after Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon ended. The documents were declassified after Israeli human rights activists petitioned the country’s high court and detailed in a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “The torture inflicted in Khiam Pr…

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