‘Beaten day and night’: Gazans released from Israeli jails recount torture in custody

Recently released Palestinians from the Gaza Strip report experiencing torture while detained by Israeli force. 

Some of the former Gaza abductees told AFP that they were blindfolded, beaten and bitten by dogs during detention.

They were interviewed at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital following their release from the occupation’s jails on June 11.

“I was beaten day and night. Our eyes were blindfolded, our hands and feet shackled and they set dogs on us,” Mahmud al-Zaanin, 37, recounted from his hospital bed.

“They asked me where (the leader of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group in Gaza) Yahya Sinwar was, where Hamas was, where our prisoners were, and why I participated on October 7” Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.

Zaanin, however, said he did not take part in the Hamas operation that was carried out in retaliation for the usurping regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza after the historic Hamas operation. So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 38,011 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 87,445 others.

Zaanin said he was deprived of sleep and bathroom access and denied medical treatment, adding, “We urinated in our clothes.”