Khiam detention center

During the 2006 Lebanon War, the Israeli Air Force bombed and destroyed the museum, alleged by locals to have been carried out in an attempt to hide the evidence of torture and mistreatment used there.

British journalist Robert Fisk, who spent 25 years reporting from Lebanon, stated about human rights abuses at the center:“The sadists of Khiam used to electrocute the penises of their prisoners and throw water over their bodies before plunging electrodes into their chests and kept them in pitch-black, solitary confinement for months.

All the torturers fled across the border into Israel when the Israeli army retreated under fire from Lebanon almost seven years ago.”[7]“There was the whipping pole and the window grilles where prisoners were tied naked for days, freezing water thrown over them at night.

Then there were the electric leads for the little dynamo — the machine mercifully taken off to Israel by the interrogators — which had the inmates shrieking with pain when the electrodes touched their fingers or penises.

[10] Israel had denied any involvement in Khiam, allegedly claiming to have delegated operation of the detention camp to the South Lebanon Army (SLA) as early as 1988.