GAZA, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) released 33 Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning. They arrived in very poor health at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.
Local sources reported that the released prisoners were set free near the Israeli Kissufim military site from where they had to walk hundreds of meters on foot before reaching east of Deir al-Balah.
Due to the closure of all crossings in the Strip, the IOF has been obliging the released prisoners to walk on foot from the security separation fence into the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah reported that four released prisoners arrived at the hospital this morning, noting that one of them was a truck driver from the northern Gaza Strip and another man was suffering from psychological disorders. Some of them were transferred to other hospitals and the rest headed directly to their homes, the sources added.
Among the released prisoners was a young man who was arrested in the West Bank where he was working during the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
The released detainees appeared in exhausted bodies with ulcers resulting from the chains with which they were shackled in Israeli jails. One of them, who had visible signs of torture on his body, affirmed that the IOF tied up the prisoners, then assaulted and beat them.
