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Human rights defenders on Tuesday renewed calls for the U.S. government to end American complicity in Israel’s “horrific war crimes” after the publication of videos purportedly recorded and shared by Israeli soldiers showing the torture and dehumanization of Palestinian men, some of them naked, in the illegally occupied West Bank.

U.S.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) were among the groups that condemned the videos, which show armed and uniformed Israeli troops and possibly settlers beating, kicking, stomping, and dragging bound, blindfolded, and naked Palestinian men, forcing them to shout “long live Israel,” and draping them in the Israeli flag.

“The footage of Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian men in the West Bank is horrific,” JVP said on social media. “The Israeli military has brutally abused Palestinian prisoners for decades. As the Israeli military wages a genocidal war in Gaza, its soldiers are no longer hiding this abuse from the public.”

@POTUS @SecBlinken this is on you.

Should we expect the standard comment from @PressSec about how Israel has a right to defend itself in the West Bank, where Hamas doesn’t govern, by carrying out torture tactics on random Palestinian farmers and students? https://t.co/E1Elg7rzyu

— Dr. Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman504) October 31, 2023

“Torture and humiliation [are] a tool of all repressive regimes to punish and destroy the spirit [of] anyone who challenges their oppression,” the group continued. “It’s no surprise then, that the same government that tortured Iraqis in Abu Ghraib is funding the same tactics on Palestinians. This is disgusting.”

JVP added: “CEASE-FIRE NOW! END U.S. MILITARY FUNDING TO ISRAEL NOW!”

The U.S. gives Israel around $4 billion in annual military aid. Last week, President Joe Biden asked Congress to authorize an additional $14 billion in assistance for Israel as it ramps up its war on Gaza in the wake of this month’s Hamas-led surprise attacks that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and others, with the death toll since rising to over 1,500, according to state broadcaster Kan. Around 200 Israelis and others were taken hostage by Gaza-based militants.

Watch the video clip .
Israeli soldiers continue dehumanizing Palestinian detainees, the majority of them are workers.
So Israel is not defending it self, it is defending its occupation and apartheid. pic.twitter.com/urt0didZ43

— Issa Amro عيسى عمرو