Palestinians share harrowing tales of torture in Israeli prisons
“Like the torment of the afterlife. They burned me with boiling water,” reads the heart-wrenching testimony of a Palestinian detainee held illegally in an Israeli prison.
Hot water and sewage | A recent report by the Palestinian Prisoners Society and the Palestinian Prison Club sheds light on the systematic torture and brutal treatment faced by Gaza detainees in the regime’s prisons.
“Since my arrest, I was subjected to severe beatings, causing fractures in my body, in an attempt to extract confessions from me. I remained in a camp in the Gaza Strip for 58 days, which was like the torment of the afterlife -- being shackled and beaten constantly, humiliated and insulted,” a 45-year-old Palestinian detainee was quoted as saying.
“Upon my transfer to Negev Prison, I was burned with hot water, doused with boiling liquid from an electric kettle. The scars from that torture remain etched on my body,” he added, revealing grim details.
Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups gathered this harrowing evidence between January 6 and January 8, interviewing 23 detainees across Negev Prison and Nafha Military Camp.
In a statement released on Monday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas strongly denounced the inhumane treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails and demanded an end to "the terrible violations they are subjected to by the extremist Zionist junta.”
“They are ongoing war crimes, a violation of all international laws on prisoners. We also call on international human rights institutions to highlight the suffering of our families in prisons, raise their voices, and put pressure in all forums to release them,” the statement noted.