New York Times · 8 July 1977
CP-1977-025
Arab Captives in Gaza Say Israelis Beat Them but Don’t Use Torture
Bernard Edinger
Transcribed from the clipping
“The following dispatch, by Bernard Edinger, was submitted to the Israeli military censors, who requested under Israeli law that 166 words be deleted.”
Context added by this archive
The second censorship artifact in this archive, and the more explicit of the two: the Times tells its readers the exact number of words an Israeli censor took out of the story they are about to read, and prints the story anyway. What survived includes a prisoner’s account of a fellow Arab, suspected of collaborating, slowly roasted over an open fire to make him talk.
The headline splits the difference the censor left behind.
Cite this item
"Arab Captives in Gaza Say Israelis Beat Them but Don’t Use Torture," New York Times, 8 July 1977. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1977-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1977-025
More from New York Times
- ARAB HUNGER STRIKE FREES 100 PRISONERSNew York Times · 16 May 1937
- MASS STARVATION OF ARABS IS FEAREDNew York Times · 6 July 1949
- Israeli Prison Chief Denies Any Torture Of Arab PrisonersNew York Times · 20 January 1975
- U.N. Agency Says Israel Tortures and PillagesNew York Times · 16 February 1977
- Israeli Torture of Arab Prisoners Reported by London Sunday TimesNew York Times · 20 June 1977
- Israelis Deny a London Paper’s Charges of TortureNew York Times · 3 July 1977
- 13 more from this paper in the full text →
More from the 1970s
- Carter Publicly Endorses Palestinian ‘Homeland’Poughkeepsie Journal · 18 March 1977
- Arafat Praises Carter's StandPress of Atlantic City · 18 March 1977
- Jimmy Carter shakes hands with a Palestinian andHouston Chronicle · 20 March 1977
- Under friendly exterior—an ex-terroristChicago Tribune · 18 May 1977
- The PalestiniansThe Miami Herald · 29 May 1977
- The Fragile Right to Be IsraelNewsday · 6 June 1977
- All 186 clippings from the 1970s →
In these collections
This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
The clipping belongs to the newspaper that printed it, or to the news agency that supplied the copy. It is reproduced here for research, criticism and commentary. The city is derived from the masthead, not read off the clipping.
Something wrong here, or something you know about this clipping? The archive is still being built and corrections are wanted: maria@rozumstudio.com, quoting CP-1977-025.
Everything printed in 1977 · See it in the archive reel · Full text of every clipping · Dataset