- Severe beating, electric shock, and deprivation of food and drink.

In the Negev prison, detainees relieve themselves in a bowl.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, in a new briefing on the detention conditions of Gaza detainees, stated that the Israeli prison administration continues to impose systematic crimes against detainees, including those in Gaza, who face the most appalling detention conditions.

She added in the briefing published on Wednesday: "The Sde Teiman camp and the Negev detention center continue to lead the scene in terms of the level of brutality practiced against Gaza detainees, based on new testimonies, including a number of detainees from the aforementioned camps and detention centers, in addition to Ofer detention center, which reveal further inhumane conditions to which detainees are subjected."

She continued, "The torture policy practiced by the occupation forces has led to the martyrdom of four detainees in a matter of days over the past period. They are among the dozens of martyrs from Gaza who have been killed since the start of the aggression."

The occupation continues to impose the crime of enforced disappearance on hundreds of detainees in Gaza, noting that the latest number announced by the occupation prison administration, which classifies them as illegal combatants, reached (1555) by the beginning of this March.

In the Negev, detainees relieve themselves in a container.

In testimonies from detainees from Gaza who were visited in the Negev detention center, they confirmed that they are being held in sections that lack toilets to relieve themselves, forcing them to use a "pot" in a humiliating and degrading situation. Skin diseases, specifically scabies, continue to plague the detainees' health conditions, due to the lack of hygiene inside the sections, the severe shortage of clothing, and the lack of appropriate treatment for them and for the sick among them.

In a testimony by detainee (J.W.): “I still suffer from scabies and boils on my body. I was also severely beaten during my frequent transfers, and as a result, I have a broken tooth, which causes me severe and continuous pain. I can no longer hear well in my left ear, after they poured water into it in a harmful way.” He said: “The detainees suffer from starvation, and are only given a small amount of food, equivalent to a quarter of a meal for each detainee, which is inedible. The detainees collect the food provided to them throughout the day and eat it as breakfast in the evening. They are also subjected to procedures including: repeated inspections, constant verbal abuse, handcuffing behind their backs, and forcing them to kneel during the so-called (count - security check).”

In his testimony, detainee (S.A.) confirmed: “The conditions are difficult due to the widespread skin diseases in the section, and there is a state of fear and terror among the detainees. The conditions are like hell, the insults are continuous, and the policy of humiliation, starvation, and deprivation dominates life in detention.”

“I was arrested from Al-Shifa Hospital and transferred to the Negev detention center after 97 days of detention in camps near Gaza, and after 30 days in Ofer, where I was interrogated in the field and severely beaten, which resulted in a deep wound in my head and broken ribs. During my first detention, I was subjected to harsh interrogation that lasted for 30 days, including the disco interrogation - an interrogation that relies on placing the detainee in the middle of very loud music - which I was subjected to more than 7 times, accompanied by continuous beatings and deprivation of food and bathing,” he continued.

He added: After being transferred to the Negev, I was subjected to interrogation again, and due to the severity of the torture and beatings, I lost consciousness several times, which led me to confess to false things.

Regarding the Sde Teiman camp, through visits to a number of detainees there, the atrocities, torture and abuse still loom large over the lives of detainees in detention.

“We are repeatedly and almost daily subjected to repression, and sound bombs and gas bombs are thrown inside the barracks, after they force us to lie on our stomachs and keep us like that for a long time. When the prison guards transfer us for interrogation or an interview, they shout at us and beat us constantly, and repeatedly knock us down while we are walking, even though they are transferring us blindfolded and handcuffed,” said detainee K.Y. in his testimony about the conditions there.

K.Y. is in a barracks where more than 55 detainees are being held. According to him, “We are subject to the soldiers’ moods in dealing with us, and to the torture and humiliation. Sometimes we are allowed to walk, but most of the time we remain sitting on the iron beds, two detainees to a bed. We are not allowed to talk, and those who do not comply are punished by being placed in shabha for hours next to the wire - the area designated for shabha in the barracks.”

He says that as a result of the collective isolation and the lack of contact with the outside world, one detainee believed throughout his detention that his daughter had been martyred in the aggression on Gaza, only to later discover through lawyers that she was alive.

“On the day of my arrest, they arrested about 40 men, stripped them completely, and dressed them in white clothes. Throughout this period, we were repeatedly subjected to severe beatings with sticks and machetes, and they spared no one. This led to many of them being injured, and I was among them. I suffered from a nosebleed for a long time without receiving any treatment. After about 24 hours, we were transferred to the Sde Teiman camp, where they provided us with prison clothes. Until then, we remained in the white clothes in the bitter cold and under the beatings,” said the detainee (M.Y.).

He added: “For (14) days, I remained blindfolded and handcuffed, and I was subjected to a disco investigation for 12 hours, as I remained in a closed room with very loud music, and after I was exhausted from the sound, they tried to pressure me to recruit and cooperate with them, but I refused, after that they took all of my family’s data.”

The "Fura" in "Sde Teman" is an instrument of torture

According to the detainees' testimonies, they confirmed that the camp administration had turned the "recess" - the period of time spent outside the camp yard - into a tool for torture, abuse, and humiliation. During this time, they were forbidden from speaking to each other or raising their heads, and they heard nothing but insults. Anyone who disobeyed any order was subjected to torture and punishment.

In his testimony, the detainee (D.A.) said: “I was arrested in the morning hours, after the soldiers filmed me with a camera, and they told me that I would not be able to cross towards Gaza, so I remained there until the afternoon, and then they transferred me and others in a truck to the (Sde Teiman) camp. On the way, we were subjected to severe beatings, especially on my stomach and face, and I remained bound and blindfolded for 12 days from the day of the arrest. Upon entering the camp, they dressed us in prisoner’s clothes, and the whole time I was forced to sit on my knees in humiliating and difficult positions. Inside the (barracks), they deliberately pulled out the mattresses every day, and prevented us from lying down all day.”

He confirms: “This continued for 39 days, and I was able to change my clothes for the first time after 72 days, and I was able to shave my hair once after 110 days of my detention.

Severe beating, electric shock, and deprivation of food and drink

Detainee (N.W.) said: “At the beginning of my detention, I was in the barracks, handcuffed and blindfolded the entire time. They forced us to sit on our knees. After four days, I was taken to meet with the intelligence services. I waited a whole day, during which I remained handcuffed and without food or water. They also refused to loosen the shackles despite the pain they caused me.”

He points out: “I don’t know which camp I was in at the beginning of my detention, because of the shackles and the blindfold. I was sitting on my knees, and the place was very cold and exposed to the air. After 21 days, I was transferred to Sde Teman, where I was severely beaten on the chest, and as a result, I felt short of breath. We were also electrocuted and beaten with weapons.”

In a statement by the detainee (A.H.): “Upon my arrest, the men were taken to a nearby building, after ordering them to strip completely, and then they severely beat them, in addition to cursing and calling them the worst names. After two hours, we were transferred to a truck, then to another place where we stayed for a whole night, accompanied by severe beatings and insults. They also deliberately put our heads in water, and there were direct threats to kill us. They also forced us to prostrate on the ground while we were naked in the bitter cold, while we were bound and blindfolded.”

He continues: When we were transferred to Sde Teman, we were taken to a doctor, but he ignored our injuries. We were later transferred to Berks, where we remained for 90 days, 20 of which were handcuffed and blindfolded.

Suppression, severe beatings, and the use of sound bombs

“The repressive measures are repeated,” said detainee (A.H.). “About 20 days ago, they attacked us with sound bombs. One of these bombs exploded next to me, injuring my foot and shoulder. I did not receive treatment, even though I suffered from pain for a long time. These attacks are repeated almost daily, and they did not stop during Ramadan. Before the pre-dawn meal, they stormed the barracks, forced us to sleep on the floor, beat us, insulted us, and threw sound bombs at us.”

In the testimony of the detainee (Z.L.): He said: “When I was arrested, they handcuffed and blindfolded me, then they took us to a building, and from there to an open area in the cold and heavy rain, and then later to the (Sde Teiman) camp. We were completely naked, and the whole time they were cursing and shouting at us. At first, we were placed in a (barrack) in the shape of an arch for 12 days. We were more than 70 detainees at the time, and we had to sit the whole time with our hands tied and blindfolded. Even when we needed to relieve ourselves, they kept the handcuffs on.”

He noted, "The first time I was able to change my clothes was 50 days after my arrest. I had previously been subjected to a violent crackdown. My head was hit against a wall, causing an injury to my eye. The effects are still evident. There were detainees who were injured and bleeding as a result of the assault."

The Commission and the Club renewed their call for the international human rights system to take effective decisions to hold the leaders of the Israeli occupation accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions that would place Israel in clear international isolation, and restore to the human rights system its fundamental role for which it exists, and put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that has afflicted it during the war of extermination, and end the state of exceptional immunity that the international community has granted to the occupation, considering it above accountability, accountability and punishment.