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Testimonies of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, who were released by the Israeli occupation forces after being detained for weeks, revealed the extent of the torture, abuse and violations they were subjected to during their detention.
During its ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7, the occupation forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians during their ground invasion in the north, center and south of the Strip, and released a number of them after detaining them for weeks or several days, while the fate of a large number of them remains unknown. .
At the Martyr Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, a number of citizens were transferred to receive treatment after the occupation forces released them, as traces of torture appeared on their faces and bodies.
Khaled Al-Nabris (48 years old) from the city of Khan Yunis said, "From the beginning of our entry until the time we left, the torture did not stop. Even the place where we were sleeping, dogs entered it. The weather was cold, and they gave us one blanket and were sprinkling water on us."
He added: “During the first 72 hours, it was strictly forbidden to drink, eat, or go to the toilet. I was handcuffed and blindfolded for the seven days” of detention.
Al-Nabris confirms, "Life was difficult. We were subjected to torture that I had never seen in my life."
In turn, Abu Khamis from the Bureij camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip told Agence France-Presse, “The conditions of detention were very tragic. We were subjected to torture, beatings, and humiliation.”
The fifty-year-old man confirmed, as he placed a blanket on his shoulders, "As you can see, this happened in prison. There were injuries to my hands, and I do not know what happened to my hands."
The occupation forces released 114 citizens on Thursday, including four women, at the Kerem Shalom crossing. Among those released was the head of the surgery department at the Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza, Muhammad al-Ran, who was arrested during the occupation forces’ storming of the hospital two months ago.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club confirmed that the occupation committed a field execution against 30 detainees from the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, after their bodies were found inside one of the schools it was besieging. They were handcuffed and blindfolded, meaning they were under arrest.
He explained in a statement on Wednesday that field executions and enforced disappearances of detainees have escalated, in light of the continuing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
He pointed to the increase in testimonies of detainees who were released over the past period about torture, abuse and humiliation, including testimonies from women and children.
He stressed that the occupation’s insistence on keeping Gaza detainees subject to enforced disappearance has only one explanation, which is that there is a decision to single them out, with the aim of carrying out more crimes against them in secret, as the occupation refuses to provide human rights institutions, including international and competent Palestinian ones, with any information regarding their fate and places of detention until Today, including the martyrs from Gaza detainees.
For his part, the United Nations Representative for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Ageth Songai, last month denounced the “horrific” conditions faced by Gazans detained by the Israeli army.
Songai confirmed that “thousands” of them had been arrested since October 7 and detained in unknown locations.
During its ground invasion of Gaza, the occupation forces published several times horrific pictures and scenes of the arrests of hundreds of people, naked and detained in conditions degrading human dignity, which constitute an additional indicator of what is more serious and greater in terms of the level of crimes being carried out against them.
AFP + WAFA