RAMALLAH, February 2, 2016 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) Tuesday revealed testimonies presented by two detainees about being subjected to brutal torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers prior to  their detention.

PPS revealed painful experiences of torture that both Hamza al-Masri and ‘Atef Al-Kar underwent prior to their detention.

Al-Masri, 23, who comes from Bethlehem district, informed a PPS attorney who visited him in al-Maskubiya detention and interrogation center that despite informing soldiers about suffering from a skull fracture prior to his detention, soldiers deliberately slammed him with the military jeep’s door, forced him to sit on the floor of the jeep, and dropped a large heavy box of bullets on his left leg, causing him a simple brain concussion and bruises across his left leg.

Meanwhile, Al-Kar, 20, who comes from the Bethlehem town of Beit Fajjar, said that he was beaten up, thrown to the ground and stripped naked purportedly to undergo a body search.

According to B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, “Israeli law, like international law, allows security forces to use reasonable force in self-defense and for duty-related purposes such as dispersing rioters, arresting suspects resisting arrest, and preventing a detainee from fleeing.”

However, it noted that, The law does not allow beatings, degradation, or ill-treatment of persons who are not rioting, resisting arrest, or fleeing.

“The acts described in testimonies given to B‘Tselem and to other human rights organizations deviate greatly from what the law allows, and they constitute flagrant violations of human rights.”

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