HEBRON, January 24, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupying forces Friday evening tortured two Palestinians at a military camp to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that the occupation forces held Hesham and Issam Abu S‘eifan, brothers from the Wadi al-Hassin neighborhood, for over six hours at a military camp and tortured them, inflicting wounds and bruises across their bodies.

The casualties were rushed to Hebron Government Hospital for treatment.

Jamal Abu S‘eifan said that the gun-toting soldiers deployed at the al-Rajabi building, which have been taken over by Israeli colonists for several years, stopped his brothers on their way to a mosque and escorted them into the colonial outpost of Kharsina.

While there, the soldiers brutally beat the Abu S‘eifan brothers up for over six hours before eventually releasing them.

The city of Hebron, which houses the Ibrahimi Mosque, is home to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 800 notoriously aggressive Israeli settlers who live in compounds heavily guarded by about 1,500 Israeli troops.

Israel has expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from 800 heavily guarded settlers, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered their deployment.

Over 800 Palestinian families living in the Old City of Hebron, including the Wadi al-Hassin neighborhood, are going through harsh living conditions due to Israeli occupation repressive measures and ongoing assaults by colonists.

The 11 neighborhoods making up the Old City of Hebron are subjected to curfew from the evening hours until morning, whereby Palestinians are prevented from leaving their houses unless in compliance with the occupation restrictions. They are also subjected to torture by soldiers at checkpoints, on roads and during raids.

K.F.