Palestinians arrested by the occupation army confirmed… Gaza strip They were subjected to torture and beating for long periods, without being given water, food, or the opportunity to use the bathroom, sometimes for two days in a row.
Israeli forces released about 20 Palestinians today, Sunday, and admitted them to Al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.
Hospital director Marwan Al-Hams said that those released suffered bruises from beatings.
One of those released confirmed to the French news agency that the Israeli army arrested him from the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
He said that the Israeli soldiers put the women on one side, and the men on the other, and took the men to a house where they settled in the area.
Without water or food
He added that the soldiers tied them up for exactly two days with their hands behind their backs, “without access to water, food, or a bathroom,” while they were subjected to constant beatings.
He also confirmed that a soldier continued to beat him with full force even after he informed him of his injury.
He continued, “They put us in trucks and took us to a very cold place that we did not know. They poured cold water on us, then they took us to a prison whose name or location we do not know. We were tortured and beaten, and they prevented us from speaking, removing the blindfold, or removing the handcuffs.”
He pointed out that the Israelis were throwing bread away and would not give it to the detainees.
He explained that the Israeli army later threw them on the border with Egypt, where they walked until they arrived Rafah crossing The border.
More than 2,600 detainees
The government media office in Gaza confirmed that the arrests carried out by the Israeli army in the Strip amounted to more than 2,600 detainees, including 40 medical personnel and 8 journalists.
A few days ago, the army announced the opening of an investigation into the death in prison of a number of Palestinians who were arrested in the Gaza Strip.
In recent weeks, the occupation army published pictures of dozens of detainees in the Gaza Strip wearing nothing but underwear, guarded by Israeli soldiers, blindfolded and handcuffed, sitting or kneeling on the ground in a street in Gaza.