Today, Monday, the Captive Club said that the crime of torture and ill-treatment constitutes one of the most prominent systematic and consistent crimes that the Israeli occupation authorities pursue against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, through various policies, methods, and tools, as the occupation authorities have worked to devise methods and policies over the past decades. , to target the prisoners physically and psychologically, and this crime took a major place in the prisoners’ narration of the detention experience.

The Captive Club added, on the occasion of the International Day against Torture, which falls on the 26th of June of each year, that since the beginning of this year and with the escalation of the level of resistance against the occupation, the occupation authorities have escalated the practice of torture, at its various levels, in an attempt to undermine the state of continuous resistance. Aside from a number of crimes, this was accompanied by a ban on meeting a lawyer, as it also escalated the issuance of banning orders from meeting with lawyers, in addition to the long periods of investigation, some of which exceeded more than a month, on a continuous basis, and did not exclude any of the categories (women, children, the elderly, and the sick) including the wounded.

The Captive Club added that the systematic torture policy is no longer limited to the well-known concept of torture in accordance with international law, as we find that the occupation agencies at their various levels have created modern methods and tools for torture operations, and although this concept was associated with the investigation period, this does not mean that The only station where the detainee faces torture.