Israeli military tortured one-year old child to pressure father under interrogation

Palestine TV has reported that the Israeli military brutally tortured a one-year-old Palestinian child to exert pressure on his father during interrogation.

According to TRT World:

the Israeli soldiers burned the child’s leg with a cigarette, pricked him and inserted a nail to his leg.

Torture is illegal under multiple bodies of international law. Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions prohibits “cruel treatment and torture” of individuals not partaking in any aggressions.

Going further, the UN Convention Against Torture came into effect in 1987 and banned torture in all circumstances. In fact, Article 2 specifically states that there can be no possible justification for torture including war or national emergencies.

Once again, Israel disregards the rule of law, going beyond even what existing legislation anticipated. It is accused of torturing an innocent child to exert pressure on a parent – an act so cruel that most would agree any parent might say anything under such circumstances.

Israel kidnapped and tortured a one-year-old child in front of his father for 10 hours, burning cigarettes and inserting nails into his legs, in an attempt to extract a false confession under duress.

Israel kidnapped and tortured a baby! pic.twitter.com/ExRFq14T4M

— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) March 22, 2026

Israeli military torture baby

Palestinian journalist Osama Al-Kahlout reported the alleged torture, with Palestine TV citing his account. Footage has since aired showing the disturbing injuries sustained by Karim, a young toddler, after the Israeli military detained his father while he was out buying supplies. This traumatising ordeal for both father and child came on top of earlier hardship, when the man’s horse died, cutting into the family’s already limited income.

After gunfire erupted near his home, the child’s father, Osama Abu Nassar, apparently had to leave his little boy on the ground and report to a nearby military checkpoint. There, soldiers forced him – like many other Palestinian men and boys – to strip and undergo interrogation.

However, this is where Israel demonstrates yet another horrific escalation in brutality in its genocide against Palestinians. Soldiers reportedly directed their cruelty at the man’s child. A medical report has confirmed that Karim suffered burn marks from cigarettes on his body and puncture wounds in his leg caused by a nail.

Israeli forces have long been seen to abuse Palestinian children. This report suggests they now seek to use child abuse as a weapon of war against Palestinian men.

This innocent and suffering child was released 10 hours later to his family, via the International Committee of the Red Cross in Al-Maghazi. The father continues to suffer in Israeli detention alongside thousands of other Palestinian men and children.

What was that about Israel being the ‘most moral army’?

A child who carries no weapon, who knows nothing of war except its sound… is taken from his family, tortured, and cigarettes are extinguished on his small body. What kind of world allows childhood to be violated in this way? Silence is no longer neutrality… silence is a… https://t.co/h5qmq43tbp pic.twitter.com/2dps7bTTvC

— Mohammed (@Mohammedgaza334) March 22, 2026

Where is Western condemnation of child torture?

We’re sure that Western media and captured politicians will have little to say to condemn this absolute depravity inflicted by Israeli forces.

As this X post points out, silence can only mean complicity:

Even with photographic evidence & availability to interview the parents – Western media continues to remain silent & therefore complicit in all IDF war crimes. https://t.co/V09yhoi5kr

— Bakhtawar B-Zardari (@BakhtawarBZ) March 23, 2026

This soul-destroying news came alongside Francesca Albanese’s report to the UN’s Human Rights Council in which she underscored how Israel’s “torture extends far beyond prison walls”:

“My report shows that torture extends far beyond prison walls, in what can only be described as a torturous environment imposed by Israel across the entire occupied Palestinian territory,” @FranceskAlbs told the @UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.#HRC61➜https://t.co/TnkLkevBCq pic.twitter.com/SjHLMY5tie

— UN Human Rights Council (@UN_HRC) March 23, 2026

The cruelty and degradation is the point

International law, including the Geneva Conventions, strictly prohibits torture under all circumstances. Most people find such acts so unthinkable that lawmakers never felt the need to explicitly prohibit the torture of children as a separate offence. Yet once again, Israel appears willing to disregard these legal and moral boundaries, pushing into territory that lawmakers never anticipated.

Since the alleged ‘ceasefire agreement’ in October 2025, the IDF have murdered 677 Palestinians and injured a further 1,813.

Following the events of October 7 attacks, Keir Starmer moved quickly to offer diplomatic support for Israel, defending its siege on Gaza.

The longer Starmer keeps his mouth shot on the horrors the Israeli military inflict on Palestinians, the longer he will show himself up for what he is: an unrepentant genocide apologist.

Featured image via X