‘Poisoned’ iftar meal kills 45 Daesh extremists

July 9, 2015

Dubai/Baghdad, Jul 9: At least 45 Daesh group militants have died after eating a poisoned iftar meal, British newspaper the Daily Mail has reported.

It is thought that a group of 145 militants had sat together to break their fast, but only 100 survived the meal, the report added.

The poisoning is thought to have happened in Mosul, the report added, citing a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party.

It is not clear whether the incident was due to food poisoning or intended — but if this was an attack — it will not have been the first time. According to the newspaper, dozens of the terrorists have been killed by poisoning in similar attacks.

In the latter case, the newspaper cited local press claiming Free Syrian Army rebels managed to infiltrate a Daesh camp posing as chefs and poisoned the food served to the militants.

The report showed Daesh men sitting next to a meal of fried fish, green salad and what appears to be Pepsi Cola and other western soda drinks.

In a separate video, long queues of women and children can be seen apparently waiting with empty containers for food and water. It is currently summer in Iraq and Syria where temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees.

In another development, a Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced 24 suspected members of the Daesh group to death for their role in the killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers during the extremists’ blitz across the country last year.

The case stems from the horrific killings of 1,700 Iraqi soldiers at the hands of the Daesh militants who captured the troops after the terror group overran Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in June 2014.

At the time, the soldiers were trying to flee from Camp Speicher, a nearby army base.

After Tikrit was captured, Daesh posted graphic images and video that showed its gunmen massacring scores of the soldiers after loading the captives onto flatbed trucks and then forcing them to lay face down in a shallow ditch.

Iraqi forces, assisted by airstrikes from a US-led coalition, retook Tikrit in April, and arrested dozens of suspects linked to the massacre. Forensic teams exhumed many of the bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Daesh militants.

The 24 defendants sentenced Wednesday to death by hanging were charged with the killings and membership in a terror group. All pleaded not guilty, insisting that they never took part in the massacre. They told the court their confessions were coerced under torture by Iraqi officers.

Comments

Add new comment

Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.

UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

News Network

November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

Comments