The Wall Street Journal reported that former Palestinian detainees under the Israeli occupation were beaten, humiliated, and forced to kneel for more than 20 hours.

The newspaper said, quoting a director of the Committee against Torture in Israel, that Palestinian detainees are isolated and detained without the right to seek assistance from a lawyer.

She added that the occupation forces stripped them of their clothes for long periods of time, during interrogation.

Former prisoner Muhammad Obaid said that the Israeli soldiers asked him to wipe the blood from his face to take a picture in front of the Israeli flag. He added that Israel later released him without charges after 40 days of detention.

Heba Ghaben, a former prisoner of Israel, also said, “They threatened me with electric shocks and tied our hands and feet.”

When Israeli soldiers released Bahaa Abu Rukba near a border crossing in Gaza after detaining him for nearly three weeks, the 24-year-old Palestinian said he was in pain and struggling to walk after being repeatedly beaten with rifle butts and kicked in the thigh.

The United Nations estimates that, since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, Israel has detained thousands of young Palestinians in operations that the Israeli army said targeted militants.

Earlier, the private Israeli Channel 13 said that what it described as elite fighters in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) detained in Israeli prisons "are suffering from severe and difficult measures, and are crowded into very small cells amidst hunger, cold, and restrictions."

This came in a television report broadcast by the channel about the Palestinian prisoners, whom it said were “elite” members of the “Al-Qassam” Brigades affiliated with the Hamas movement, who were arrested during the attacks of October 7, 2023.

The channel says, "Prisoners of the Hamas elite suffer from very difficult conditions, as they are always shivering from the cold, and are forced to bow their heads while sitting on the ground. The cell rooms are very small, and the beds are unmade and without covers."

Source: Al Jazeera