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Occupied Jerusalem- On Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 20 Palestinians in the city of Jerusalem, while a human rights center and a Palestinian government body published information about the increasing torture of detainees from the city. Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Governorate, which is the highest official Palestinian representation of the city, stated – in a daily report, a copy of which was received by Al Jazeera Net – that the occupation forces continued arrest campaigns in the neighborhoods and towns of Jerusalem, which affected 20 Jerusalemites on Thursday.
It was reported that the arrests were concentrated in the town of Biddu, northwest of the city, and affected 12 Palestinians, in addition to other arrests in the neighborhoods of Jabal al-Mabakir, Ras al-Amoud, Sheikh Jarrah, and the towns of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem, and Beit Surik, northwest of the city.
According to the report, the occupation authorities transferred 4 former detainees to “administrative detention,” that is, detention for several months that can be extended without trial or indictment.
The governorate indicated an increase in cases of assault on prisoners during their detention, noting that prisoner Laith Nasser Ghaith was subjected to torture in the rooms of Al-Mascobiyah prison, “which led to numerous fractures in his body and rib cage, and bruises in various parts of the body.”
She stated, “Prisoners are subjected to this beating three times a day, in addition to imposing very harsh detention conditions by withdrawing bedding, reducing food to one meal, placing many prisoners more than the room’s capacity, taking away clothes and keeping one uniform.”
The governorate called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to “examine the conditions the prisoners are living in.”
For its part, the Wadi Hilweh Human Rights Information Center published a testimony and published photos of a released detainee who was subjected to abuse and torture.
The young man, Omran Okka (18 years old), told the center that he was beaten during his arrest from his home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, at a time when the soldiers were uttering obscene words towards him, his mother, and his sisters.
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The effects of the assault and beating that the young man, Omran Akka, 18 years old, was subjected to during his arrest and detention in the detention center. pic.twitter.com/2g6mFlum9f— Silwanic (@Silwanic1) October 26, 2023
He added that all his family members were beaten at the moment of his arrest, and that the soldiers continued to beat him from the moment of his arrest until he was transported to the detention center. “They were masked and they beat me and blood poured out of the car and they made me clean the blood.”
He continued that when he asked the soldiers about the reason for his arrest, they answered him, “It is enough that you are an Arab.” He was then released after being investigated and threatened if he disclosed the torture he had been subjected to.
On Wednesday, the center revealed that the occupation forces carried out a campaign against former prisoners, as those forces, accompanied by crews from the Israeli municipality, stormed 10 homes of liberated prisoners in the neighborhoods of Old Jerusalem, photographed them and took their measurements without explaining the reasons.
Since the outbreak of the confrontation in Gaza on October 7, the city of Jerusalem, its suburbs and towns have been subjected to strict measures, raids and widespread arrests, while Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to a strict siege and restrictions on the entry of worshipers into it, according to documentation by Palestinian human rights and governmental bodies.
