CAIRO (PIC)– Informed Egyptian security sources disclosed an escalation of torture against Qassam Brigade leaders of Hamas’s military wing detained in Egyptian prisons after accusations against the resistance movement of firing missiles from the Sinai Peninsula at Eilat and Aqaba.
The sources who requested anonymity told the Quds Press: “The Qassam detainees in the Egyptian prisons are subjected to intensive investigation in the wake of the missiles fired at Eilat and Aqaba from Egyptian territories” noting that violence is used in the investigations to extract information leading to who fired the rockets. Previous investigations focused on how weapons were brought into Gaza through Egypt.
The sources noted that one of the top Qassam leaders imprisoned in Egypt was suffering “critical medical conditions as a result of the torture he suffered.” He has been imprisoned for several years.
“Egyptian security leadership ordered interrogators of the Palestinian prisoners to focus on the structure of the Hamas movement and the location of Gilad Shalit” the anonymous officer told Quds Press.
The Egyptian official Middle East News Agency (MENA) quoted an Egyptian security source as saying: “The preliminary findings by security forces point to Palestinian factions being behind the operation.”
He suggested that the missiles were in fact launched from Sinai noting that Egypt “will not under any condition allow its land to be used to harm Egyptian interests.”
In related developments Abu Murad al-Quqa the father of a longtime Palestinian prisoner detained in Egyptian jails expressed concerns over his son’s life after learning about the rise in torture administered by Egyptian security after the recent firing.
His son Mu’tasim 29 is the oldest detainee of the 24 Palestinian prisoners in Egyptian jails having been jailed for six years.
Quqa deplores the way Egyptian security deals with Palestinian detainees in Egyptian prisons and expressed fears for the life of his son after constant news of torture against them explaining that he has no news on his son’s condition.
He said: “The Egyptians deal with us as if they were our enemies” alluding to the interrogations into matters which do not concern the Egyptian government such as the location of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and the nature of weapons used by Hamas.
