Palestinian prisoners launched by the Israeli military after detention in Gaza have detailed the extreme bodily and psychological torture they endured.
The group, who suffered abuse by the hands of Israeli forces within the Gaza Strip, was transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, by Palestinian Red Crescent Society groups.
The Palestinians, exhibiting indicators of torture on varied elements of their our bodies and showing exhausted, described the abuse they confronted to Anadolu Agency (AA).
Mahmoud Basim Mahmoud Ahmed, one of many launched prisoners, stated the Israeli military compelled detainees to lie face down, set canines on them and administered electrical shocks.
Forced to eat feces
“You needed to preserve your fingers tied above your head from 4 a.m. to midnight. If you turned proper or left, they’d set the canines on you,” Ahmed stated.
“They brought two pieces of bread a day. After eating the bread, you had to lie on your stomach for 24 hours. If you went on a hunger strike, they forced you to eat feces,” he stated.
Ahmed added that some prisoners, suspected by Israeli troopers of getting connections with resistance fighters, had been taken to the twelfth ground of the constructing for torture after which introduced again down whereas nonetheless being tortured.
“What we experienced there in 40 to 60 days felt like 12 years,” he stated.
Bark like canines
Said Abu Watfa, who was detained on the Kerem Abu Salem border crossing, stated Israeli troopers held a gaggle of younger Palestinians on the border for 4 hours, tied to a wall.
Watfa stated the troopers stripped the detainees, administered electrical shocks to their delicate areas, broke their tooth and didn’t present any drugs.
Watfa, subjected to numerous types of psychological and bodily torture, stated: “At night, when we needed to go to the toilet, they would say ‘bark.’ We had to bark to use the toilet. They forced me to bark and also to curse my government, my relatives, my sister and my wife.”
35 days in shackles
Muin Muhammad Abdussatir Muhammad, detained within the Jabalia refugee camp and held in an Israeli jail for about 4 months, stated: “We went through very tough days. They set dogs on us at night and tortured us a lot. We have never seen such torture.”
Marwan Mesad Shaar, a 20-year-old detained by Israeli troopers whereas distributing assist and imprisoned for 31 days, stated they endured varied forms of torture, together with electrical shocks, beatings and humiliation.
Asked concerning the circumstances within the Israeli jail, Shaar responded: “We weren’t living.”
Khalid Abulkerim, detained throughout a raid within the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City and launched after 35 days, stated their fingers and toes had been all the time shackled throughout imprisonment, and so they skilled each bodily and psychological torture.
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