Tehran, IRNA – The Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission, along with the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has released a new harrowing report detailing the ordeal Gaza detainees are going through in Israeli jails.
According to IRNA on Sunday night, citing the Palestine Information Center, the report which is based on testimonies from detainees highlight a range of shocking abuses, including systematic torture, severe mistreatment, medical neglect, and brutal beatings, with many detainees continuing to suffer from lasting physical and psychological trauma.
The commission recorded the testimonies of the inmates after meetings with 23 of them in the Israeli prisons of Naqab and Nafha from January 6th to 8th.
According to the testimonies, they went through the ordeal immediately upon arrest, particularly during the initial period and interrogation, with some revealing shocking details about the way they were treated.
The report says the prisoners’ accounts show that this amount of organized brutality has become widespread in most of the main prisons and detention centers of the Zionist regime.
45-year-old, detained in December 2023 whose identify has not been revealed, recounted his horrifying experience: "I was severely beaten for forced confessions, leaving me with fractures. After 58 days in a camp in the Gaza perimeter, I was transferred to Naqab, where they burned me with hot water. The burn marks are still visible on my body. We live in tents, which are torn, and we suffer from extreme cold and hunger."
He added: Then they transferred me to a detention center in al-Quds and from there to Ofer and then to the Negev, and each of these trips was a painful and death trip, and after I contracted a skin disease and lost hair, boils, wounds and holes have covered my body everywhere.
Another 21-year-old shared his suffering: "I was detained in February 2024, during the evacuation process, and taken to several camps before reaching Naqab. I have developed boils, sores, and holes all over my body due to scabies – I go to bed hungry and wake up hungry. I have a problem with eye pressure and my right eye has been blind since childhood, but today my left eye is also in serious danger."
Most of the detainees shared their harrowing experiences, a pattern of systematic abuse and dire living conditions in Israeli custody.
"The first days of my detention were horrifying. I was subjected to brutal torture, including a full day of beating, followed by being doused with sewage and urinated on by the soldiers," 21-year-old whose name is mentioned with M.H. told the investigators.
This prisoner from Gaza continued: Then we were transferred to another camp for 27 days, where we were kept kneeling, blindfolded, with hands and feet shackled. We lived in constant suffering and torment, experiencing torture and gradual death day and night.
A lawyer who met with this prisoner says that he came out of the detention center wearing a torn summer dress, shivering from the cold, and a skin disease and hair loss had spread all over his body.
“At the beginning of the detention, we were living in hell. We did not know what our fate would be or what our legal status was. All forms of crime, oppression and deprivation were inflicted on us and today we are facing starvation”, another detainee, K.J. recalled.
The amount of food we are given is really minimal and inedible. Many of us collect crumbs to make one meal, and since our arrest, we’ve been deprived of sugar and salt. Our living conditions are unbearable, he added.
“I was detained from one of the schools by the Zionist army and beaten and stripped naked and subjected to field interrogation. I was later transferred to various camps before reaching Naqab,” said 25-year-old M.A. while recounting his ordeal.
Most of the detainees testified before the commission reported abuses - ranging from systematic torture, severe mistreatment and medical neglect to brutal beatings and starvation in several Isareliu prisons, including Sde Teiman, Naqab, and Ofer.
According to previous reports, 54 Palestinians, including 35 from Gaza died in Israeli jails since the regime launched its genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian territory.
Israel has detained over 25,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, al-Quds, and Gaza over the past 15 months.
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