GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) New testimonies from prisoners from the Gaza Strip held in Israeli prisons have revealed that they were subjected to severe physical and psychological torture, including being forced to drink alcohol and having boiling water poured on their bodies.
These testimonies were given to legal teams who visited the prisoners in July, according to a joint statement issued Thursday by the Palestinian Prisoners Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs under the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The two organizations reported that legal teams gathered these brief testimonies during visits to Naqab, Ofer, Sde Teiman, and Moscobiya detention centers.
The testimonies reflect an unprecedented escalation in crimes committed against detainees during their arrest and interrogation. They also expose the current detention conditions, which include medical neglect, systematic starvation, and continuous deprivation and abuse inside prisons and detention camps, the statement said.
The organizations emphasized that these ongoing testimonies represent just a fraction of the hundreds of affidavits documented by prisoners from Gaza. They stressed that the detainees were subjected to torture, abuse, and humiliation, including sexual assaults, which have led to the deaths of dozens, while many others remain victims of enforced disappearance.
One prisoner recounted being forced by Israeli jailers to drink alcohol. Another described enduring psychological torture that drove him to attempt suicide after being falsely told by an interrogator that his entire family had been killed, only to later find out they were alive during a visit.
One testimony detailed how guards poured boiling water on a detainee’s body. Another described prisoners being forced to strip naked and being brutally beaten. A separate case involved a prisoner being attacked by a police dog, resulting in his injury.
