Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails amusement signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said pursuing the latest batch that was released connected Saturday.
Published On 1 Feb 2025
Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails amusement signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said pursuing the latest batch that was released connected Saturday.
As portion of ceasefire statement betwixt Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails. They emerged wearing stained grey situation jumpsuits and exhibiting signs of years of detention.
Several of them looked bushed and frail arsenic they made the abbreviated locomotion from the autobus to the European Hospital successful Khan Younis, Gaza, earlier being cheered done the assemblage and reunited with their families.
“Every clip prisoners are released, we find the prisoners’ bodies reflecting the level of crimes committed against them, including torture that is unprecedented successful its level aft October 7, starvation crimes, systematic aesculapian crimes, and the corruption of a fig of them with scabies, successful summation to the terrible beatings that the prisoners were subjected to earlier their release, which continued for days according to galore of their testimonies, and which successful immoderate cases led to rib fractures,” the organisation said successful a statement.
“The Prisoner’s Society confirms again that the concern practices organized coercion against the released prisoners and their families, done respective methods that person been monitored, the astir salient of which are the terrible beatings that the released prisoners were subjected to, and the threats that reached the constituent of sidesplitting if immoderate reception enactment was organized oregon if the household showed immoderate motion of reception.”
One of the released Palestinians said, “For the past 15 months, we were exposed to the astir brutal torture … the Israelis treated america successful inhumane ways. They treated animals amended than us.”
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Red Cross unit expressed outrage astatine the mode the Israel Prison Service handled the released prisoners from Ketziot Prison connected Saturday.
According to their accounts, Palestinian detainees were released handcuffed with their hands supra their heads with a set that read: “The radical of eternity does not forget.”
Hamas said the “abuse and torture” Palestinian prisoners endured “confirms the ugliness of what [they] are subjected to” successful Israeli prisons.
It added successful a connection that its equipped wing, the Qassam Brigades, did not neglect to supply the indispensable healthcare to Israeli captives contempt the conditions successful Gaza, including Israel’s relentless bombing and attacks that killed much than 47,000 radical successful the besieged enclave since October 2023.
“The bully carnal and intelligence information of the enemy’s prisoners proves the values of our absorption and its motivation committedness towards the prisoners, portion the transgression concern commits the astir heinous violations against our prisoners successful jails,” the radical said.
Sources told Al Jazeera that 1 Palestinian, Hussam Shahin, volition beryllium transferred to infirmary aft helium underwent country without anaesthesia portion successful jail.
Under the presumption of the ceasefire deal, 33 captives held by Hamas successful Gaza are to beryllium freed successful the archetypal six weeks of the truce successful speech for hundreds of Palestinians, galore of whom person been serving beingness sentences successful Israel.
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