‘Interrogators Tried to Drown Me with Toilet Water’: Palestinian Prisoner Recalls Tortures at Israeli Prison

IQNA – A Palestinian prisoner at Ofer Prison in the Occupied West Bank has reported severe torture, including being nearly drowned with toilet water by interrogators, according to a joint report by the Palestine Prisoners’ Board and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Association, both affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

The prisoner, identified only by his initials, GV, stated, “During the interrogation, the interrogators tried to drown me with toilet water. To this day, we are subjected to torture, humiliation and beatings.”

GV was detained by Israeli soldiers in the Hamad neighborhood of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 2. He described being stripped, handcuffed, blindfolded, and beaten.

“For a hundred days, we were beaten just for making any movement, and we were handcuffed and blindfolded for the entire time,” GV added.

He remains in Ofer Prison, where he says prisoners face ongoing torture, humiliation, harassment, and beatings.

The report also highlighted other severe abuses, including surgery without anesthesia, amputation due to constant restraints, rape, sexual assaults, and starvation. It emphasized that thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are held captive by Israel, with their fates unknown.

The report comes as a leaked video, aired by Israel’s Channel 12, shows a gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner by guards at the Sde Teiman.

Israeli public broadcaster KAN, citing a security source, said the Palestinian man was taken to a hospital with severe injuries to an intimate body part and unable to walk due to his medical condition.

Source: Agencies