Are Israelis guilty of systematic torture? Perhaps, U.S. reports cautiously suggest

T. R. Reid and Edward Cody, Washington Post Service, Washington

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A State Department cable from Jerusalem, classified secret, “concluded: ‘Israeli torture of Arab prisoners in the occupied territories may be a widespread and even common practice.’” The department’s Israel desk “thought the Jerusalem cables might be one-sided.”

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"Are Israelis guilty of systematic torture? Perhaps, U.S. reports cautiously suggest," Honolulu Advertiser, 7 February 1979. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1979-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1979-001

Elsewhere in the archive

PLO levels torture charge against IsraelThe Ottawa Citizen · 27 December 1979 · the same year
Palestinian Said Tortured In IsraelThe Herald Sun · 27 December 1979 · the same year

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