The director of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City has accused Israel of torturing him and other detainees, following his release after seven months in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.
Mohammed Abu Salmiya was among dozens of Palestinians freed and returned to Gaza on Monday, according to Israeli authorities.
The doctor, who had been held by Israel without charge since arrest at his workplace in November, said he and other prisoners were subjected to what he labelled as ‘almost daily torture’ while in detention in Israel.
According to him, this included assaults with batons and dogs, deprivation of food and medicine, as well as physical and psychological humiliation.
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Other detainees released alongside him also alleged abuse. The claims could not be independently confirmed but matched other accounts of Palestinians who have been held in Israeli custody.
