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Released Palestinian Describes Detention at Ofer Prison, Site of “Systematic Torture and Humiliation”

HeadlineAug 21, 2024

In the southern city of Khan Younis, a Palestinian man who spent over two months in Israel’s Ofer Prison, was released and reunited with his family. Hubb Al-Deen Maqat recounted the horrors he and other Palestinian prisoners were subjected to.

Hubb Al-Deen Maqat: “We stayed for about 40 to 50 days blindfolded with this cloth. This way for 50 days! We were sitting down with our hands and feet bound. What’s happening in the prison, there is no living person of conscience who can bear it.”

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says detainees at Ofer Prison suffer “systematic torture and humiliation.”

This all comes as another ceasefire deal appears to have stalled.

Meanwhile, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday it’s still waiting to receive polio vaccines amid a growing risk of a major outbreak across the besieged territory.

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