Child Affidavits Provide Evidence of Torture by Israeli Forces

Testimonies released by three Palestinian boys revealed that they had been made to endure systematic torture during and after detention by Israeli occupation forces.

News ID: 442577

Date: 23 December 2018 - 17:36

RNA - Attorney Jacqueline Fararja, from the Palestine Prisoners Society, quoted 15-year-old Mohammad Sbeih, from al-Khader town, as stating that an Israeli patrol arrested him on December 18 before he was handcuffed and blindfolded, Palinfo reported.

He was later dragged to a military vehicle and subjected to heavy beating. Israeli soldiers hit him with their boots.

The child announced that the Israeli officers kept beating him on the way to DCO checkpoint in Bethlehem. He was later transferred to the Etzion detention center.

Lawyer Fararja stated that signs of heavy beating figure all over his body.

At the same time, 16-year-old Hadi Salah said Israeli soldiers arrested him and transferred him to DCO checkpoint, where he had been tied to a chair and left shivering for hours in the cold weather. He was later taken to the Etzion lock-up.

Meanwhile, Saeed Abdul Rahman, 17, added that an Israeli troop broke into his family home on December 17 and violently beat him up using boots and batons. Saeed and his father were pepper-sprayed by the occupation forces before he was arrested.

Lawyer Anan Khader, who paid a visit to the detainee in Hawara detention center, stressed that bruises and injuries still figure on his body.

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