United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese took to X to decry acts of torture reportedly committed by Israel against Palestinian detainees over the past eight months.

Reposting screenshots from a New York Times report on the treatment of Palestinian detainees in a shadowy Israeli detention centre, which describe in graphic detail acts of torture and humiliation committed against Palestinian civilians. These included electrocution, forcing detainees to wear diapers and sodomy.

The article itself cited a leaked draft of a UNRWA report, which contained interviews with former detainees.

“However, abuses, torture, mass killing, wanton destruction, have been the daily reality for the Palestinians under Israeli rule for over half a century,” Albanese wrote.

“Now everyone can see. Israel operates as a military dictatorship, committing all sorts of crimes including apartheid to the aim of removing the Palestinians from their land.”