The shocking account of Palestinian prisoners of torture by Israeli soldiers

Fars News Agency International Group, “They kept me in a dilapidated house. A few days later, they put me in open military vehicles with others, it was cold and raining heavily. We were almost naked, we stayed in prison for 10 days and were beaten, tortured and insulted there. I often cried because of the pain, but the torture did not diminish… They asked about the tunnels and the Israeli prisoners. These sentences are said by Mahmoud Nabulsi, a 68-year-old resident of Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, who has reached Rafah after his release.

The effects of torture on the bodies of most of the prisoners released on Thursday It was quite evident before, the captives who were captive between a few days and a few weeks. Some of them were transferred to Israeli prisons and others were kept in the destroyed houses that have been turned into Israeli barracks in Gaza. Aziz Ahmed, a 61-year-old Palestinian man, referring to The torturers told al-Arabi al-Jadeed that “I was left without food and water for four days, and when I asked one of the soldiers to clear my throat a little, he took the bottle and emptied it on the ground in front of me… They kept hitting my chest and back”. /p>

Last Thursday (February 1st), the Israeli regime released 114 Palestinians, including several women and children, that it had captured during the attack on the Gaza Strip, most of them residents of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, an area that has been under siege since a few weeks ago. It has witnessed the attacks and attacks of the Israeli occupation forces. Most of these prisoners were transferred to some hospitals after the liberation and the relative withdrawal of the invaders, such as Nasser Medical Complex, and some of them, along with their families, went to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah to receive first aid and ensure that their bodies were not damaged under torture. were not seen seriously, they were transferred, especially as some of them had chronic diseases.

Ahmad Abu Jarad, 51, who is suffering from thyroid cancer, also says Whatever he told the occupiers that he is sick and to prove it, it is enough for a doctor to examine him, they did not pay attention. He says that he had a bag of medicine when he was arrested in Khan Yunis, but the soldiers confiscated the medicine and beat him on the head and back for two whole days, and threatened him and his family with death and were interrogated.

He explained that he was a resident of Al Brij camp and could not escape due to illness. He was under Israeli detention along with a number of other Palestinians. “None of us knew where we were detained, they kept changing our places, we couldn’t see anywhere. I think we were in Gaza, but because of the destruction, I couldn’t tell where in Gaza”.

Abujarad added that “we were under the cold for three days, many of us had chronic diseases… we couldn’t sleep and they didn’t give us food or water.” We were in shackles. “After I was released, my doctor said that my hand was in a very bad condition because it had been bleeding for three days and had severe inflammation.”

After the attack on Khan Yunis, the Zionist forces forced its residents to flee through “safe” corridors, but also accidentally killed many of them. they arrested. Basam Jodeh (27 years old) says that he was arrested in one of these “safe corridors” of Khan Yunis and was subjected to interrogation, threats and torture for 6 days.

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