Table the Euro-Med Report! Else politicians, media are complicit in atrocities

A report titled ‘A Genocide Behind the Walls’ was published this week, testifying to the untold atrocities committed by IDF soldiers. Andrew Brown reports.

Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence.

A. report The document, published by Euro-Med Human Rights Watch just a few days ago, documents the testimony of a Palestinian woman who was detained in Sde Teiman and filmed being raped by two Israeli soldiers for two days. She knows the footage exists because when it ended, her captors hung her by her wrists and showed her to him during interrogation.

They said they would publish it if he did not cooperate.

Those images are somewhere. It may have been copied, shared, archived or transferred via servers. It may have been communicated through intelligence channels involving Australian partners. This document was not produced, accounted for or publicly requested by a single Australian minister or a single editor of a major Australian newspaper.

We will come back to this topic.

The title of the report is “Another Genocide Behind the Walls.” The publisher is an independent human rights organization based in Geneva. It covers what happened in Israeli prisons and detention centers from October 2023 to October 2025. It consists of dozens of pages of documented testimony, legal analysis and findings that Euro-Med identified as constitutive.

a de facto state policy based on sexual violence used as a tool of subjugation and destruction.

It was available to every journalist and politician in Australia the day it was published, but don’t expect to hear from them about it.

It won’t be on the evening news. Will not appear on the front page Sydney Morning Herald or Australian. No minister will be questioned at the doorstep. No shadow minister will demand answers. This would be classed as the kind of story that would not be run by people who have quietly and effectively decided that some victims don’t get the coverage that others do, without saying so publicly.

It will be buried not through censorship, but through the more respectable mechanism of collective editorial silence that has proven equally effective in this country.

That’s why you’re reading here.

She was raped by the dog

His name is not in the report. He is 43 years old. He was detained without charge for a year. Before that year, he had a life, a family, a name that people used when they needed him. Here’s what he told investigators about what a single day’s interrogation at that facility meant:

“They tied me naked to a metal bed… then a soldier raped me. I felt intense pain in my anus and screamed, but every time I screamed I was beaten… After the soldier had ejaculated inside me, he left. I was left in a humiliating situation… I was bleeding. Then they brought a dog… the dog raped me… That day I was raped at least two more times.”

This is one day. Held for a year.

A second man described watching someone he knew be gang-raped by soldiers, taking turns, for more than forty minutes, while others watched. When it was over, they brought the man back to the group, broken, so that the rest could see what he was and what could be done to them.

In Sde Teiman, a Palestinian woman was tied naked to a metal table, raped by two Israeli soldiers for two days, and left chained and covered in blood during the night in between. He told investigators he wanted to die. The report takes its name from what he calls his experience.

Then there’s this. A man detained in Sde Teiman says he heard dogs barking in the area where detainees were kept in metal cages. He then describes what the two soldiers did as follows:

“They forced me to lie down, a dog got on top of me and tried to put its penis inside me. At first I couldn’t understand what was happening, but then I realized that I was being raped. I was completely naked, I had no clothes on. I felt the dog’s fluids on my body. I tried to resist, but I was handcuffed and the gap was so small that I could not move. Two of them were holding me tightly. This lasted 3-4 minutes.”

Two of them were holding him.

This detail destroys all existing defenses. This is not a soldier losing control in the chaos of war. Two people decided, got into position, and held a handcuffed man motionless while the animal was used on his body. This movement requires organization. It requires the absolute certainty of impunity,

And impunity on this scale is not something individual soldiers create for themselves.

It is institutional. This is politics. As the report states, it comes from above. It was determined that these practices were carried out as part of a policy supported by senior civilian and military leaders.

No responsibility, just complicity

In March this year, the Israeli army announced the dropping of charges against five soldiers accused of gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman. He dropped the charges despite CCTV footage showing the detainee leaning against a wall with soldiers surrounding him.

The charges were dropped. Images as proof. This is not a failure of the justice system. This is a justice system doing its job, which is to protect the men within it.

When images of these five soldiers were leaked to the Israeli public by the country’s own chief military prosecutor, a two-star general named Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, he was arrested, charged with obstruction of justice and fraud, and forced to resign.

A lawsuit was filed against the woman who revealed the evidence of the crime. The perpetrators held a press conference in front of the Supreme Court and described themselves as victims of an unfair trial.

Right-wing organizations organized public demonstrations in support of themselves. Benjamin Netanyahu looked at CCTV footage showing soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee and described the leak of the footage as what he called the most serious public relations attack on Israel to date.

It’s not rape. Rape images.

These men did not disappear quietly. They caused it. They have become symbols. They were embraced by a political movement that understood exactly what they were doing and congratulated them for it.

“The most moral army in the world”

This is the army that Israeli government spokesmen and a few Australian politicians have publicly described as the most moral army in the world.

This is the only democracy in the Middle East. These are statements that have been repeated for decades in our parliament, our press galleries and our opinion pages, presented as a reason to bolster confidence, supply arms, share intelligence and look the other way when evidence becomes inconvenient.

A man handcuffed in a cage too small to move. Two soldiers are holding him. An animal used on its body for 3-4 minutes.

The most moral army in the world.

Now think about who we should be.

Spitting on Anzac tradition

Australia has built a national identity on the premise that how you treat someone who cannot defend himself is the truest measure of your character. We don’t just believe this in the abstract. We blessed him. The Anzac tradition is not based on victory or military glory. It’s based on bondage, on what it means to watch a man fall apart where no one can reach, and to carry that witness for life.

We come together every April to honor this. We teach this to children as something irreducible that separates us from the worst of what people do to each other.

The men and women in these testimonies were handcuffed in spaces too small to move and raped by animals while soldiers held them down. They were filmed and threatened with publication.

They were destroyed in front of other prisoners so that terrorism would increase.

They were held without charge, without lawyers, without access to the Red Cross, in facilities run by Australia’s ally, and the Australian government has consistently refused to condemn them in any language at any cost.

If these were Australian prisoners the Secretary of State would not have to be asked twice. We would name this at the United Nations, recall our ambassador, and cancel all arms agreements before the bodies got cold. We know this because we have done the same for other prisoners elsewhere when politics permitted.

Politics here does not allow this. Albanese, Wong and Marles quietly and never directly said so, deciding not to do this.

Albanese spoke of being disturbed by civilian casualties. Wong called for humanitarian aid. Neither of them said the word rape in this context. Neither named Sde Teiman.

Neither requested that the images be produced and accounted for.

Those images. It’s still somewhere. It is still not claimed by the government, which calls itself our moral voice in the region.

What this imprint demands is simple and on record.

Put the report on the table!

Euro-Med Human Rights Watch’s “A Genocide Behind Walls” report should be formally tabled in both houses of the Australian parliament.

Not quoted in a speech. It was not summarized in a press release. This was tabled as a document of the legislature so that it would not be consigned to the department’s inbox and forgotten.

Once on the table, Albanese, Wong and Marles must respond with their names in person in the Senate. The question is not complicated. This is the same problem that images ask.

What do you know, when did you learn and what will you do?

The editors of this country’s leading imprints who own these findings and cover the diplomatic process stories instead owe their readers a public explanation. This also needs to be recorded.

The 43-year-old man, whose name was not included in the report, is currently outside the facility. When investigators asked about his condition, he told them his physical and mental health was very poor. This is a man who reaches out for language to express something that language cannot carry. Anyway, he found it. After staying there for a year, regardless of his situation, he sat down in front of the investigators and explained what had been done to him.

He did his part and testified.

The question is whether this country will do ours.

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Andrew Brown is a Sydney businessman, former Deputy Mayor of Mosman and Palestine peace activist who works in the healthcare industry.