A recently freed Palestinian prisoner has recounted harrowing experiences of torture, overcrowding and dehumanizing treatment during his seven-year imprisonment in Israeli jails.
Mahmoud Samer Jabarin, a resident of Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern occupied West Bank, in remarks on Sunday, described Israeli jails as “graveyards for the living.”
He was released as part of a prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime on Saturday.
His account highlights the brutal conditions faced by detainees in Israeli detention centers and prisons.
“I spent seven years in Israeli prisons,” Jabarin told Turkey's Anadolu news agency after his release. “The period during Israel’s genocide in Gaza was the hardest. We endured torture, beatings, and humiliation.”
“We were cut off from the world entirely. They (Israeli soldiers) took everything from us. We were all subjected to beatings and torture, and food was scarce. They showed no mercy, not to the elderly, children, or the sick.”