RAMALLAH, February 21, 2016 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s society (PPS) Sunday said that three Palestinians were physically assaulted by Israeli forces prior to and during their detention at al-Maskobyeh Israeli detention center in northern Jerusalem.
A PPS lawyer, who was allowed to visit the three detainees, said two prisoners were physically assaulted prior to their detention, whereas the third prisoner, who suffers from a bone cancer, was roughly handled during interrogation at al-Maskobyeh center.
PPS explained that Zeyyad Taham a local from Qatanna on the outskirts of Jerusalem, was severally beaten by Israeli soldiers before being led to the said detention center.
Meanwhile, PPS said Mohammed al-Shwamreh, a local from al-Qubeiba village to the northwest of Jerusalem, was severally beaten by soldiers who raided and wreaked havoc into his family’s home prior to his detention.
To be noted, Mohammed is the brother of Mansour al-Shwamreh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces on the 14th of February, after he allegedly carried out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
In the meantime, cancer-stricken detainee Othman Mahmoud Othman, a local from Beit Our al-Tahta town near Ramallah, said that one of the Israeli interrogators gripped him from his clothes and chucked him roughly against the wall.
According to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights center, “At the end of Dec. 2015, 6,066 Palestinian security detainees and prisoners were held in Israeli prisons, 343 of them from the Gaza Strip.”
“The right of every person not to be subjected to ill-treatment or torture (whether physical or mental) is one of the few human rights that are considered absolute,” said the center.
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