GAZA 28/01/2009 -- The ministry of prisoners' affairs in Gaza has charged that the Israeli occupation authority was using cruel and internationally banned interrogation methods with detainees captured in Gaza during the Israeli onslaught.
The ministry, in a press release on Wednesday, said that the Israeli occupation forces took with them more than 200 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip after their withdrawal and subjected them to torture rounds in order to extract any information on resistance elements and places from where the homemade rockets are being fired at Israeli targets.
It pointed out that the prisoners were subjected to severe beating especially in the upper parts of the body, forced to sit in uncomfortable positions, deprived of sleep and forced to sit on children chairs while both hands and feet shackled in addition to violently shaking them and exposing them to extreme cold.
The ministry underlined that some of those detainees were moved to the Negev desert prison without any clothes, covers or other basic necessities, and noted that the IOA was dealing with those detainees as "unlawful combatants", which meant they had no rights and indefinitely detained without trial or specific charge or knowing the reason for their detention.
The ministry appealed to the Red Cross to inspect those detainees and to get a list of their names at least so as to ensure their relatives they are still alive and to deny the IOA the opportunity to tamper with their destiny. It noted that the IOF soldiers had executed tens of citizens after their arrest in the Strip's border areas and in Tal Al-Hawa suburb in Gaza city without posing any danger on the soldiers.
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