In pictures: protesters mount demo for tortured prisoners outside Israeli embassy

Human rights activists have mounted a protest against Israel’s abduction and torture of thousands of Palestinians. And it did so right outside the Israeli embassy last Saturday, 13 June 2026.

Protest at the Israeli embassy

The Red Ribbons campaign aims to make sure that the illegally detained, tortured – and often raped – overwhelmingly civilian detainees are not forgotten. Their protest at the Israeli embassy was photographed by activist cameraman BetterThanReal, who kindly provided them to the Canary. It included a bloodied re-enactment with activists representing some of the huge number of bound and abused prisoners held indefinitely in Israeli torture camps:

Protesters also drew attention to the ongoing, 18-month imprisonment and torture of Gaza medical director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and to the plight of women and children held as hostages by Israel:

Palestinian prisoners and their families told TRT World earlier this month some of the horrors they faced while detained without charge:

Double standard

Around ten thousand Palestinians are currently held in these camps facing sexual torture, rape and even the use of dogs to rape. Western governments and media fanned a moral panic over a couple of hundred Israeli prisoners of war in Gaza who were well treated and faced more danger from their own side. But thousands of tortured and raped Palestinians barely registers as the west colludes in Israel’s racist, terrorist colonial project.

Featured image via the Canary