Israeli torture of Palestinian prisonersHa'aretz - Gideon Levy
Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court outlawed torture, it seems interrogators in the West Bank have resumed their evil ways: sacks on the head, vicious beatings and kicks
... this week we again heard harrowing testimony on interrogation from a young Palestinian who was detained 10 days after undergoing surgery... Even now, two weeks later, he requires continued care and will need an operation to repair injuries caused by the interrogators. Once again we heard a man testify to being hit viciously while bound, a sack over his head. Once again, a Palestinian who was never officially arrested and is suspected of no more than throwing stones - a charge he denies - tells of having his head smashed against a wall, of being kicked and stomped. The chief interrogator, he said, was "Captain Amran."
Munir Farukh is 24 and unemployed. We met him at his home in Sa'ir, east of Hebron, where he lives with his parents. His father is also unemployed. Shortly after 3 A.M. on July 21, an IDF unit came to arrest him. He had undergone testicular surgery 10 days earlier. Blindfolded, his hands cuffed behind his back, he was thrown into a Jeep, next to two other detainees. At the Etzion interrogation and detention center they waited for three hours in the courtyard, bound and blindfolded, before being taken in for interrogation. Farukh says he told the soldiers about the surgery and that it was hard for him to stand, but they ignored him. No one told him why he had been detained...
...Farukh showed him his surgery scar, but it made little impression. A sack was placed over Farukh's head and torso, and since he suffers from shortness of breath he had difficulty breathing. In the course of the morning he was taken into an interrogation room. Three interrogators accused him of throwing stones and said someone had informed on him. Faruah denied the accusation. They began beating him...
...When he fell to the ground they kicked him and stepped on him, then lifted him up again, he says. He estimates that this went on for about three hours, during which he was repeatedly pummeled and his head was smashed against the wall a few times. His nose was broken. He told the interrogators about his operation, but says they hit him on the surgery site, too...
...... When he complained of pains in his testicles, his nose and the surgical site, as well as breathing problems and blood in his feces, an army doctor gave him Acetaminophen.... Full story
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