Al-Haq, Al-Mezan and Addameer Support UNSR Albanese on Upcoming Thematic Report with Joint Submissions on Israel’s Widespread and Systematic Use of Torture Against Palestinians, In and Outside the Context of Detention by Al Haq

On 10 December 2025, Al-Haq, Al-Mezan and Addameer made two joint submissions to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, in response to her call for input for her upcoming thematic report on torture to the Human Rights Council’s 61^st Session in March 2026.

… Special Rapporteur Albanese will investigate both specific acts and specific acts and methods of torture and ill-treatment committed against Palestinians and structural or collective practices that intentionally inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering for prohibited purposes, including punishment, intimidation, coercion, and discrimination. Hence, the first submission documents Israel’s deployment of torture as a deliberate state policy against Palestinian men, women, and children held arbitrarily.

… The second report draws crucial attention to structural and collective Israeli practices outside detention contexts, including: State-sponsored settler violence to further oppress, dominate and forcibly displace the Palestinian people; the mass forcible transfer of Palestinians in Gaza; widespread and systematic home demolitions; the use of Palestinians as human shields; and the deployment of military dogs to attack and terrorise Palestinian children and adults alike. These measures, carried out with the intent to racially dominate and destroy the Palestinian people as a whole, are carried out to purposefully inflict severe mental suffering.

Submission Ⅰ can be found here. 

Submission ⅠⅠ can be found here.