Israel He released ten Palestinian prisoners in Deir al Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, who were directly transferred to the Mártires de Al Aqsa hospital in the city, where Efe could verify that they showed signs of having suffered abuse during their prison stay.
The ten prisoners, all of them medium -sized men or, above all, advanced age, descended visibly tired of the buses in which they arrived at the hospital. One of them, with visible head wounds and hands, needed help to get off the vehicle and had to be transferred directly to a wheelchair.
“They arrested me in Beit Lahia (north) unfairly, in my house. They showed me hell in jail. I spent five months, some of us spent six ”, He said to Efe Nuaim al Buraei while waiting to be treated on one of the hospital stretchers with the rest of the released.
In the same place, Mohamed al Shimali He tells how he was arrested when he was driving as he passed through the Netzarim corridor, the border established by the Israeli army under the city of Gaza, where it is to Shimali, to isolate the north of the south of the strip.
All excautives interviewed by EFE were captured in the north of the enclave: Yamal Hadiwhich also hopes to be treated with the gray tracksuit with which Israel wears the prisoners, was captured in Netzarim. Yamal Jairy, who also has five months in jail, was arrested in the northern town of Yabalia.
“The prisoners released by Israel were subjected to physical abuse,” He collected a hospital statement, which added: “They are in extremely difficult physical and mental health conditions.”
The prisoners claimed not to know why they had been released, although they all have their advanced age in common and suffer from diseases.
According to the main support organizations to Palestinian prisoners, the Prisoner Club and the commission of matters of detainees and exempted, 1,747 Palestinians of Gaza are in Israeli prisons under the “Law of imprisonment of illegal combatants”, by which it can keep individual individuals without trial.
