RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has said that a Palestinian prisoner was recently exposed to a brutal assault at the hands of Israeli jailers and interrogators at the Moskobiya detention center in Occupied Jerusalem.
According to the Commission on Sunday, its lawyer visited a few days ago prisoner Mahmoud al-Hajj, a 22-year-old from Ramallah who has been in jail since July 8. Israeli interrogators have been grilling him since his detention about possessing a weapon and carrying out a shooting operation near the town — accusations he has denied.
“An interrogator leaned down near my face while yelling loudly, so I moved my head away and it accidentally hit his face and nose. A group of other interrogators then showed up and hauled me out of the interview room and dragged me into the corridors, where they embarked on beating me and hitting my back with batons before they had to transfer me to the prison infirmary and then to a detention room,” prisoner Hajj told the Commission’s lawyer.
“In the detention room, they tied my legs and arms to the bed, and I was deprived of food, water and using the bathroom for 40 hours. The interrogator whom I bumped my face into his nose also filed a complaint against me,” the prisoner elaborated.
The Commission appealed to human rights groups to intervene to save prisoner Hajj from the Moskobiya interrogation center and the clutches of Israeli jailers, warning that his life is in danger.
