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  Updated: June 24, 2006

Israelis torture Palestinian detainees

By: Ahmed Hammadi

WEST BANK: Palestinian detainees in the Zionist regime's Al Maskobiyya Prison in the occupied al-Qods are facing bad treatment, torture and are suffering from deteriorating mental and health condition, Palestinian Prisoners Society reported.

20-year-old detainee Jamil Hasan Mizhir from the West Bank city of Ramallah stated he was tortured during interrogation and was kicked and punched by the soldiers on various parts of his body. Also, one of the soldiers was continuously sticking Mizhir with a tip of a bullet on his back causing cuts to his skin.
Also, the soldiers used the laser lights they have on their gun as a method of torture by repeatedly pointing it at the eyes of Mizhir.

Mizhir was also tied to a chair for several hours, and then was forced to stand with his legs spread and hand up for an additional period of time. He was also confined to solitary for five days.

Detainee Ra'ed Ayid Al Aroury, 23, from Ramallah, was hit and punched when abducted by the kidnap cells of the regime's army, then they forced him on the ground and attacked him again.

The kidnappers were using a Palestinian pickup truck pretending to sell vegetables.

Prison Authorities also barred lawyers of the PPS from visiting detainees Amjad Ratib Jabareen, Fuad Mohammad Shreitih, and Mohammad Awad Housah, all from Ramallah, and detainee Nidal Ibrahim Salahat, from Nablus.


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