Tel Aviv torturing Palestinians to get false confessions: PA official
Israeli interrogators have been using “oppressive and brutal” torture methods to terrify Palestinian prisoners and put them under pressure to make false confessions to attacks against Israel, a Palestinian official says.
Issa Qarage, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s committee for prisoners, made the remarks during a Sunday visit to the house of Noor Muhammad Hilmi Hamamrah, a former prisoner, in the northern West Bank village of Qusin.
During the visit, Hamamrah, 15, also said that he had been arrested by Israeli troops on April 15 while at home, and was taken to a detention center for interrogation.
During his questioning, Hamamrah said, Israeli interrogators forced him to open his mouth while they used a utility knife to forcibly pry out his braces, causing bleeding.
Later, one of the interrogator told Hamamrah that he would pull out all of the boy’s teeth if he did not admit throwing stones at Israeli vehicles.
According to Qarage, Hamamrah was finally forced to make a false confession.
Israeli forces routinely abduct Palestinians in the West Bank and put them behind bars based on the so-called administrative detention policy.
Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the Tel Aviv regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
Over 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly incarcerated in 17 Israeli prisons and detention camps, many of them without charge or trial.
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