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Before releasing him, Israeli prison guards decided to give Naseem al-Radee a farewell gift. They bound his hands, placed him on the ground and beat him without mercy, saying goodbye the same way they had said hello: with their fists.
Radee’s first sight of Gaza in nearly two years was blurry; a boot to the eye left him with blurred vision two days later. Vision problems added to the laundry list of ailments he gained during his 22-month stay in an Israeli prison.
The 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers at a school-turned-displacement shelter in Gaza on 9 December 2023. He spent more than 22 months in captivity in Israeli detention centres – including 100 days in an underground cell – before being released alongside 1,700 other Palestinian detainees back to Gaza on Monday.
Like the other detainees released back to Gaza, Radee was never charged with a crime. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.
His description of his time in prison is part of what the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says is a policy of abuse towards Palestinians detainees in Israeli prisons and detention centres.
The Israeli prison service and military did not immediately respond to a request for a comment, but in the past both have said that prison conditions comply with international law.
“The conditions in the prison were extremely harsh, from having our hands and feet bound to being subjected to the cruelest forms of torture,” said Radee, speaking of his time in Nafha prison in the Negev desert, the last place he was detained before being released.
The beatings were not an exception, but instead part of what he described as a scheduled regimen of abuse.
“They used teargas and rubber bullets to intimidate us, in addition to constant verbal abuse and insults. They had a strict system of repression; the electronic gate of the section would open when the soldiers entered, and they would come in with their dogs, shouting ‘on your stomach, on your stomach’, and start beating us mercilessly,” he said.
Cells were crowded, with 14 people crammed into a room that appeared to have been designed for five, he said. The unsanitary conditions led him to contract fungal and skin diseases that were not alleviated by medical treatment provided by the prison.
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Radee’s first sight of Gaza in nearly two years was blurry; a boot to the eye left him with blurred vision two days later. Vision problems added to the laundry list of ailments he gained during his 22-month stay in an Israeli prison.
The 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers at a school-turned-displacement shelter in Gaza on 9 December 2023. He spent more than 22 months in captivity in Israeli detention centres – including 100 days in an underground cell – before being released alongside 1,700 other Palestinian detainees back to Gaza on Monday.
Like the other detainees released back to Gaza, Radee was never charged with a crime. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.
His description of his time in prison is part of what the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says is a policy of abuse towards Palestinians detainees in Israeli prisons and detention centres.
The Israeli prison service and military did not immediately respond to a request for a comment, but in the past both have said that prison conditions comply with international law.
“The conditions in the prison were extremely harsh, from having our hands and feet bound to being subjected to the cruelest forms of torture,” said Radee, speaking of his time in Nafha prison in the Negev desert, the last place he was detained before being released.
The beatings were not an exception, but instead part of what he described as a scheduled regimen of abuse.
“They used teargas and rubber bullets to intimidate us, in addition to constant verbal abuse and insults. They had a strict system of repression; the electronic gate of the section would open when the soldiers entered, and they would come in with their dogs, shouting ‘on your stomach, on your stomach’, and start beating us mercilessly,” he said.
Cells were crowded, with 14 people crammed into a room that appeared to have been designed for five, he said. The unsanitary conditions led him to contract fungal and skin diseases that were not alleviated by medical treatment provided by the prison.
‘Cruellest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two days straight
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