Severe beating and strip search were torture methods experienced by the 16-year-old Nour al-Din Salameh from Jenin refugee camp during his detention by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF).
Salameh told the lawyer of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission Hanan al-Khatib on Sunday that he was severely beaten and slapped on the face by the IOF soldiers when they raided his house on 8th August and arrested him along with his father and brother.
Salameh affirmed that the IOF soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him before transferring him to a military vehicle adding that beatings and insults did not stop all the time he spent in the vehicle lying on the floor.
Salameh was transferred to al-Jalama prison after being held blindfolded and handcuffed for 4 hours inside a container and later on he was strip-searched and taken to Megiddo’s juvenile section.
Salameh’s testimony is one of three testimonies recorded by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission and given by three Palestinians who were subjected to ill treatment while being detained and transferred to interrogation centers.
Both Yahya al-Khmour 21 from Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem who is being detained in Ofer prison and Mohammed Matahen from Jenin refugee camp who is currently held in Megiddo prison were tortured and abused during their arrest from their houses by the IOF soldiers.
In another context lawyer al-Khatib said that the Palestinian prisoners languishing in Megiddo jail are suffering from overcrowding especially with the escalation of the daily arrest campaigns in the West Bank and the influx of new detainees.
