The Israeli occupation authorities do not leave a means to torture Palestinians from the moment of their arrest, even inside prisons, as they masterfully torture them by shackling them or what is called "handcuffs", in horrible ways that put the detainee in a difficult situation that accompanies him with pain that may extend for months, and perhaps throughout his detention.

"Handcuffs" cinch increases the pain

The journey of the "handcuffs" begins with the prisoner from the beginning of his arrest, and it is the most severe, since these "handcuffs" are plastic that cause severe pain, as the detainee's hands are placed backwards and tied to them, and the pain increases if the detainee tries to extend them from his hands, so the result becomes the opposite and the handcuffs become more and more tied. And its cruelty increases, to hurt more, explained the liberated prisoner Louay Al-Mansi in an interview with Al-Quds.com.

Al-Mansi says: “These handcuffs cause tumors in the hands of the prisoner, and their pain may extend for months, and their effects remain because the blood recedes in the area of the hands, in addition to that they may leave pain in the back, since the hands are tied to the back and extend to the back area.

Not only when a prisoner is arrested, the handcuffs are attached to the prisoner, but rather the Israeli occupation uses iron handcuffs in all stages of detention, whether during interrogation or moving in the prisons, or between departments, and handcuffs are placed in the hands and sometimes in the hands and feet, as a means of torture and abuse of the prisoner, the released prisoner Louay Al-Mansi explains .

The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Major General Qadri Abu Bakr , explains that these plastic handcuffs cause double pain if he tries to reduce the pain and expand them. Where they were documented with these handcuffs and feet.

For his part, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qaddoura Fares , says, "Restricting the detainees with these plastic handcuffs left great health effects on them, and their hands and feet swelled, and may cause them serious health problems, as happened with the fighter Hussein Jaber in the late eighties of the last century, when it caused him The handcuffs are paralyzed,” pointing out that the method of attaching the handcuffs may be wrong, and perhaps the nature of the detainee’s standing and tying him in a wrong way leaves these negative health effects.

A means of abuse and torture

The Israeli occupation authorities have been using "handcuffs" against the prisoner since the beginning of his arrest to torture and abuse him, especially the plastic ones, because they cause severe pain on the prisoner and affect his health.

Abu Bakr commented to Al-Quds.com: “The occupation forces use these plastic handcuffs because they are the easiest to carry and the least expensive, but they leave negative health effects on the prisoner, as happened with the freed prisoner Major General Fouad Al-Shobaki, as he is still suffering from their effects on his hands.” After his release a month ago after 17 years of detention.

Abu Bakr points out that these handcuffs are usually used to tie things in construction and agriculture and to fix vehicle tires, and the occupation authorities masterfully use them as a means of oppression and torture against prisoners, as they leave a health and even psychological impact.

In turn, Fares says: "The aim of placing these handcuffs in the hands of the prisoners is to deliver a psychological message to the prisoner by controlling him, and it is a means of abuse and torture of the prisoners."

The Israeli occupation forces do not use handcuffs to restrain adult prisoners, but rather to restrain women and children, and do not discriminate in their treatment, as they abuse all of them without exception.

According to human rights institutions concerned with the affairs of prisoners, Palestinian children in occupation prisons are exposed to the continuous violations of the occupation against prisoners in general and child prisoners in particular, which take several forms that begin with the arrest process, and continue their journey of suffering after the arrest process, as the occupation uses them during interrogation. Harsh psychological and physical methods, and they are treated in a way that degrades their dignity and threatens them in order to obtain confessions, and they are placed in solitary cells with poor conditions in which it is difficult to live, then the occupation completes its series of violations during their serving sentences imposed on them.