A lawyer for the Palestinian Commission for Detainees’ Affairs has reported that a prisoner provided eyewitness testimony of other detainees being sodomised or sexually assaulted, Al Jazeera is reporting.
According to the commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Khaled Mahajna spoke with journalist Mohammed Arab, who was detained in Gaza, taken from Sde Teiman in the Negev Desert, and later transferred to Ofer prison near Ramallah.
At Sde Teiman, Arab reported witnessing prisoners “being raped, including a detainee who was completely stripped and had a fire extinguisher hose inserted into his rectum, and the extinguisher was discharged inside him. The detainee is in a very serious physical and psychological condition.”
“Another detainee was completely stripped and electrocuted, his genitals were yanked, in addition to other methods of sexual abuse that are difficult to describe,” Arab told Mahajna, according to the organizations’ statement
