RAMALLAH, October 1, 2014 (WAFA) – Detailed accounts by minor Palestinian prisoners, incarcerated in Israeli jails, have indicated a surge in maltreatment and torturing by the Israel authorities before and during their detention and interrogation, reported Heba Eghbaria, an attorney with the Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs.

Eghbaria was allowed to visit a number of inmates in HaSharon Israeli prison, quoting them as saying that were exposed to torture and physical abuse during their detention and throughout the course of investigation.

Sixteen-year-old Awad Za’al, a resident of the Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Abasiya, said not only he was subjected to physical abuse during investigation, but was also subjected to strip-search when he was led to the Russian Compound by Israeli Police officers.

Eghbaria said Za’al’s case is only an example among dozens of other cases of physical and psychological abuse being practiced against Palestinian inmates during the term of imprisonment, especially during investigation.

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