RAMALLAH, July 4, 2017 (WAFA) – Released Palestinian prisoners said they were ill-treated by Israeli soldiers during detention, according to a report by the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission published Tuesday.

Mujahed Abu Jad, 23, from the town of Silwad, near Ramallah, told the commission in an affidavit that Israeli soldiers raided his family home at 2 in the morning where he was arrested.

He said he was forced to walk handcuffed and blindfolded to a location near his home.

Soldiers also violently beat him, kicked him and hit him with the butts of their rifles, then poured cold water on him.

Abu Jad was then taken to Ofer military camp and prison near Ramallah where he was interrogated. He said his Israeli interrogators screamed at him and cursed him using abusive language and threatened him.

Another released prisoner, 25-year-old Anas Ibayat from Bethlehem, said he was arrested in the morning at the so-called civil administration office in Etzion settlement after he answered a summons to appear before the Israeli military intelligence.

He said he was taken to an interrogation room at the settlement where interrogators yelled at him and shouted profanities against him to get him to confess to charges against him.

He said the interrogation went on for several hours until the night, after which he was taken to Ofer.

Yaser Deriya, 17, from the village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem, said Israeli forces arrested him from his family home at 2 in the morning. He was handcuffed and blindfolded as he was taken to Etzion settlement detention center, where he was held until the afternoon without being allowed to eat or drink.

He was then taken to Ofer camp for further interrogation.

M.N./M.K.