Detainees

Testimonies

I am still living in the prison. I have the prison inside me.

Muazzaz Abayat recounts enduring severe beatings, abuse, torture, starvation, and deprivation of water during nearly nine months in Israeli prisons, describing Negev prison as the most brutal. Throughout his detention, no charges were filed against Abayat; he was held under administrative detention, a practice allowing military commanders to detain individuals without formal charges.

Beaten, buried alive and strip-searched by Israeli forces.
Hadeel Yousef Issa al-Dahdouh, from Gaza, describes her treatment during 54 days of Israeli detention, interrogation and torture. Hadeel says Israeli forces took her away from her two young sons – a four-year-old and a breastfeeding nine-month-old. She says she was put on the back of a military truck with only male detainees. She was then taken to several detention camps inside and outside Gaza and interrogated about the 7 October attack on southern Israel and beaten by Israeli soldiers. The soldiers told her she would be taken for half an hour, but Hadeel says she was detained for 54 days and away from her children for 80 days.

Two released Palestinian prisoners from Gaza recount the torture, humiliation and poor conditions they endured in Israeli jails after more than seven months’ detention.

Most of the torture we endured, was being hit in the genitals and sensitive areas. Putting cigarettes out inside our mouths, on our bodies, and our genitals.

A 29-year-old Palestinian prisoner from Gaza, who spent a month in detention. Dahlan appeared to be in very poor condition, in a state of shock and disorientation, and unable to speak clearly due to the torture he was subjected to.