Mick Hartley

🚨 Breaking: The IDF uncovered thousands of hours of footage showing Hamas torturing innocent Palestinians.

According to @NatalieLisbona, the victims include gay men, individuals accused of adultery, political opponents, and those suspected of "collaborating" with Israel pic.twitter.com/lU8bXIfCDm

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From the Mail on Sunday:

Israel's military says it has discovered thousands of hours of sickening footage showing Hamas interrogators torturing innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The harrowing videos show male prisoners with sacks over their heads, chained to floors and ceilings in painful positions.

Men writhe in agony as they are beaten with sticks on the soles of their feet.

In one distressing clip, a hooded man appears to be screaming and remonstrating with his captor.

The horrifying incidents appear to have been filmed inadvertently by CCTV cameras inside a Hamas military base in northern Gaza raided by Israeli troops earlier this year.

The footage was said to have been discovered on computers seized from the abandoned compound inside the Jabalia refugee camp. It is unclear why the men were being held.

But human rights experts have previously warned that innocent Palestinians have been kidnapped from their homes and tortured by Hamas thugs who have ruled Gaza with an iron rod since 2007.

Gay men and adulterers are among those who have been tortured by Hamas, along with political opponents and anyone accused of collaborating with Israel.

A time stamp in the corner of the footage suggests the torture took place between 2018 and 2020.

Often, the guards appear casually at ease, chatting as the abuse unfolds.

One interrogator reclines on a chair, with his arms folded behind his head, in front of a chained-up prisoner hanging from the ceiling by his arms.

Another film features a man, with a red sack over his head, chained up so awkwardly he can just about place one foot on the floor. One captor later appears to brutally choke the man.

A senior Israeli military source told The Mail on Sunday: 'The IDF found these CCTV images in March. It took months to go through them all.' It has not been possible for the videos to be independently verified but human rights groups have long warned of abuses by Hamas against civilians in Gaza. Amnesty International published a 44-page report detailing a brutal campaign of abduction, torture and killings by Hamas against its own people following the last Israel-Hamas war in 2014.

Will the BBC feature this? I have my doubts. Any Israeli brutality – the IDF mistreating Palestinians – would of course be a main news item. I remember the leading BBC story from last December on Palestinian claims of Israeli brutality, highlighting the tale of a young lad who purportedly had his hands smashed by an iron rod while in a West Bank prison. The gullible BBC reporter breathlessly recounted her interview with the poor lad, hands in bandages, surrounded by family. The Israeli Prison Service released a video of this same lad on his release from prison, in good health, hands as far as we could see looking fine. But for the BBC there are only good oppressed Palestinians, and bad oppressor Israelis…