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Prime-Time Torture
A TV documentary brings the abuse of Palestinian
prisoners into Israeli homes.
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
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s Israelis were gearing up
to spend night after night
in front of the TV watch-
ing the World Cup, Chan-
nel One, the government-run
station, screened an unusual doc-
umentary for the prime-time
viewing public: "The Film That
Never Was," a look at Israeli tor-
ture of Palestinian prisoners.
The hour-long documentary,
by Israeli filmmaker Ram Levy,
had all the usual stuff: former
Palestinian prisoners talking
about how Shin Bet and army in-
terrogators had beaten them all
over their bodies, including their
testicles; hooded and shackled
them into excruciating positions
for hours at a time; didn't let
them sleep; left them to urinate
and defecate in their pants and
more. Anything to get a confes-
sion.
But there was something new
about "The Film That Never
Was."
For one thing, this was tele-
vision, not some report by B'tse-
lem or Amnesty International, or
even a newspaper article. For an-
other, viewers heard, for the first
time, from an Israeli soldier who
had actually been inside the in-
terrogation rooms, doing the beat-
ing.
"When you get the signal, you
give it to him," the soldier said.
"With the club, with your hand;
if he's at the stage where he's fall-
en from the chair to the floor, you
kick him ... Aims are broken, legs
are broken, people leave these
rooms in pieces."
The soldier did this to 10-15
prisoners a day during his month
of reserve duty in 1989 as an "in-
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Israel soldiers stand over a Palestinian.
terrogator's guard" in the West
Bank.
The interrogators themselves
rarely beat the prisoners, the sol-
dier continued, but, "If [the pris-
oners] had open wounds, [the
interrogator sometimes] would
pour acid, or something like acid,
on them. This was the most
shocking thing that might occur."
The soldier's name was not giv-
en, his voice was disguised and
his face hidden.
The army spokesman's office,
replying in the documentary, said
the tale was so "unusual" that it
"raised doubts as to its credibili-
ty." The army began an investi-
gation, despite the soldier's
refusal to turn state's witness, '
even with the army's promise '
that it would give him full im-
munity and "make every effort to
protect his identity, to the extent(
possible." ("He's scared," B'tselem
director Yizhar Be'er said of the
soldier.)
There was more from the Is-
raeli side. Avshalom Benny, a re-
serve army medic, recalled in the
documentary how during his ser-
vice at a West Bank detention
center in late 1992, he used to
hear Palestinian prisoners
screaming from inside their cells.
Other soldiers would hear it too,
but it wouldn't bother them, Mr.
Benny said.
"One soldier would be talking
about his Subaru; another would
be talking about his job at a\
restaurant; a third would be say-
ing how he's going to remodel his
apartment, and the sound in the
background was not music from
the radio — the melody in the
background was the screams," he