The release of official Zionist documents five decades later shows that the regime has detained many Palestinian women, children and men in inhumane conditions in Sinai without charge.
Official documents that the Zionist regime has recently declassified show that in 1971, the regime set up camps and detention centers in the heart of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and detained thousands of Palestinians without trial and in inhumane detention.
The Haaretz newspaper published a detailed investigation into the matter on Friday. According to the study, documents that have been banned for 50 years show that what happened behind the scenes, in secret, is fundamentally at odds with human rights and international law.
This Hebrew newspaper writes: “In the heart of Sinai and out of the public eye, Israel has secretly set up detention camps and detained hundreds of Palestinian women, children and men for months, away from their homes and families and their daily lives.”
According to the report, none of these individuals have been charged with anything, and 50 years after the burial of these classified documents, these crimes will be exposed.
The two detention centers Abu Zanima and Nahal were established in 1971 in the Sinai Peninsula, far from the public eye and secretly, one of which was for the families of members of the Fatah movement who were suspected of involvement in “terrorist operations”. It was intended, and another was made for young people who were unemployed.
Haaretz writes that the decision to detain the Palestinians at that time was made by Ariel Sharon, the former Prime Minister of the regime and the then commander-in-chief of the Southern Front in the Zionist army, and he was sent to Gaza between 1971 and 1972 to “eradicate terrorism”, which at the time was known as the “active nest of wild bees.”