JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is phasing out the use of a military detention camp for Palestinians captured during the war in Gaza, where rights groups allege detainees were abused, justice officials said on Wednesday.
State prosecutors told the Supreme Court that prisoners held at the Sde Teiman site, which opened after the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 that triggered the war in Gaza, would be gradually transported to detention facilities. permanent.
Transfers have already begun and most prisoners will be relocated within a few weeks. This would allow conditions to improve in the meantime, they said.
State prosecutor Aner Helman, responding to a petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, told the court that 700 prisoners had already been transferred to Ofer, a military stockade in the West Bank. Another 500 were scheduled to be transferred in the coming weeks, leaving 200 in Sde Teiman, whose future has not yet been decided.
The Israeli military is investigating the deaths of Palestinians captured during the Gaza war, as well as the Sde Teiman facility.
(Reporting by Dan Williams and Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Alex Richardson)
