⭕ Sunday marks the release of 69 Palestinian women & 21 children in a captive exchange deal. Their testimonies reflect the brutality of zionist terrorists.
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1. Khalida Jarrar:
"I suffered the horrors of solitary confinement under conditions no human mind can bear." /
Khalida continued,
"The conditions of detention were not only difficult but excruciating. Like other captives, I endured brutal treatment. We were subjected to daily torture, oppression, and abuse, and deprived of everything. But this is the cost of the freedom we yearn for."
2. Abla Saadat
"I spent 4 months in prison under administrative detention without trial and charge."
The conditions of prisons as "entirely inhumane. They treated us as if we were animals."
"They try to break our morale, to make us feel beneath them."
3. Journalist Rula Hassanein
"My pain in prison was doubled, as a result of the poor living conditions due to starvation, medical neglect, and torture, as well as the constant feeling of pain and bitterness for my daughter, Elia, who needed me to breastfeed and care for her."
Rula added ;
"There were countless violations. We couldn’t clip our nails, so we had to use our teeth. They stopped us from combing our hair, so we had to use plastic forks. They took our belongings clothes, and veils."
4. Dalal al-Arouri:
"We went through a difficult situation throughout captivity, with beatings, threats, shackling, intimidation, and more, up until the final moments of our release."
"The torture against me was because I am Al-Arouri's sister."
5. Hadeel Shatara:
"We were subjected to abuse and beatings until we reached the Red Cross buses. In prison, there is a complete system of oppression, torture, and deprivation of rights that would not occur to any sane person."
6. Dunia Shtayeh
"Conditions in the cells at the Hasharon were inhumane. I wouldn’t even call them cells—they’re more like graves. Small, tight, and literally unfit for a human to live in."
7. The cub Adam Al-Hadra. (18 years old)
"I was wounded while participating in a march in Al-Quds against the war and aggression on Gaza last year before I was abducted. I was deprived of appropriate treatment, and my condition worsened."
"I suffered from severe cold and extreme heat due to the ziomists measures taken against me. I endured beatings, hunger, and pain that I could not bear."
8. Latifa Msha'sha:
"We were left on the cold ground for nearly two hours, surrounded by dogs. It felt unbearable. They humiliated us, speaking in a degrading manner. We didn’t know where they would take us or what would happen next."
9. Ahmed Khashan (18 years old)
"Scabies affected all the captives, some even contemplated suicide, but they stayed steadfast." He added, "I feel happy but also sad for those I left behind—those who are older and have spent years in prison. May God grant them relief & support."
10. Sick child captive Rose Khweis (17 years old)
"I went through a harsh illness experience after which I was transferred to the hospital and remained tied to a hospital bed
. - I was transferred from one section to another in the hospital harshly, which caused severe pain."
Khweis mentioned that when she told a zionist officer she was in severe pain, he immediately replied, "I will break your mouth." When she said she'd report the incident to the court and needed treatment, the officer told his colleague to "push her with a stick."
11. Hanan Hilal Maalwani (23 years old)
"Prison is literally the hardest thing in life."
"They made us suffer a lot in every way… searches, repression, beatings, dragging, they handcuffed us, everything was difficult, but thanks be to God, Lord of the Worlds."
12. Wounded captive Aseel Shuhada (19 years old)
"They humiliated us until the moments we were released. Look at my hands, marked by the traces of the handcuffs. They made us bow our heads to the ground, degrading us in the most brutal way."
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⭕ Testimonies regarding 'field investigations', as reported by Addameer.
1. Captive M.S: "They took me to the 'chalet' and held me there from morning until midnight. We were placed in an empty swimming pool. It was freezing outside. There were about 80-100 of us in the pool."
The "chalets" area in Hamad City became infamous for field interrogations for Gazan captives, where the zionists converted them into detention sites. Numerous Palestinians were held there for 'initial questioning' before being transferred to zionist torture camps and prisons.
Captive M. S: "They bound me with plastic ties so firmly that the flesh was ripped from my hands and blood was streaming out. I continuously asked the 'soldiers' to loosen the ties, but they did not respond."
⭕ Palestinian Captives’ Institutions: 580 kidnappings in the occupied West Bank in January 2025 alone.
Among those kidnapped were 17 women and 60 children under 18.
Additionally, hundreds were subjected to so-called field interrogations during military raids. /
In a joint report, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Captives’ Club, and Addameer confirmed that zionists have kidnapped 580 Palestinians last month, with the highest number recorded in Jenin and its refugee camp, which has endured 21 days of relentless aggression.
In January, the occupation admitted to the martyrdom of four Palestinian captives in its custody. Two of them, from Gaza, had been martyred months prior, with their deaths only recently disclosed.
“In prison, I meet a tall young man with a beard.
I asked: ‘Where are you from?’
He said: ‘Section 2’
‘What governorate?’
‘Al-Khalil’
‘Your name?’
‘Ahmed Al-Sharbati’
Then he looked at me &said:
‘It seems like you don’t know me, father.’”/
The words pierced Yasser’s heart. His son, now a grown man, had been a toddler when Yasser was taken away. Years had passed, and the gap between them felt insurmountable.
Overcome with emotion, Yasser cried saying ' I am sorry' and reached out, longing to embrace his son, Ahmad.
But the cruelty of their captivity soon set in. Yasser was shackled, his hands and feet bound. His son, too, was restrained the same way. The filthy zionists stood between them, preventing the father and son from hugging, from touching, from sharing even the simplest comfort.
⭕ One of the most vile and disturbing forms of torture used against Palestinian captives is the “Disco Interrogation.”
1/ For days on end, they are subjected to deafening music, a cruel tactic designed to break their spirits, disorient them, and destroy their mental resolve. /
2/ Palestinian Captives Commission & Club recently visited 11 Gaza captives in zionist torture camps, including Sdeh Taiman, Naftali, Anatot (a camp inside Ofer Prison), and Naqab Prison. Their testimonies expose the horrific torture endured by Palestinian captives.
3/ Captive (Y.F.), as reported by his lawyer.
"During his visit, the captive was dragged in a degrading manner by his oversized jacket. The lawyer couldn’t see the captive's face until his blindfold was removed. At that point, the captive was visibly surprised by the light."
⭕ "They told me they were targeting journalists because we knew what was really happening in Gaza," says Yousef Sharaf, a Palestinian journalist freed after 10 months in zionist torture camps.
"There is not a single captive who has not been afflicted with scabies," /
"They are not prisons; they are torture chambers where we suffer from hunger, disease & neglect,"
"I suffered severe beatings. I saw firsthand the worst forms of torture inflicted by them. Their goal wasn’t just to imprison us—it was to break us, to destroy our spirit and will."
His medical conditions adds another level to his suffering: "I had knee surgery, but not in a hospital. It was done in prison, with no anesthesia, under barbaric conditions. They refused to provide proper medical care."