Asking Israel to investigate its torture practices, while knowing that torture is an integral part of Israel’s political violence, is one of the tactics the UN employs to gloss over colonialism. In a press release, The UN Committee Against Torture stated that Israel has been implementing “a de facto State policy of organised and widespread torture and ill-treatment” which worsened after 7 October 2023. Not limited to Gaza, the committee stated that policies adopted in the occupied West Bank “if implemented in the manner alleged, would amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population.” Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank has “reportedly reached unprecedented levels.”

At various previous intervals, Israel’s colonial violence was deemed to have reached unprecedented........

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