The Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club published new testimonies from a group of detainees from the Gaza Strip who were visited during July 2025. These testimonies once again reflect the unprecedented level of crimes they were subjected to during their arrest and interrogation, in addition to their current detention conditions, the medical violations they face, systematic starvation, and ongoing deprivation and theft inside detention centers and camps. The legal teams obtained these brief testimonies during visits to the following detention centers: Negev, Ofer, Sde Teiman, and Al-Maskobiyya.
Once again, these ongoing testimonies confirm that they represent only a fraction of the hundreds of testimonies documented by detainees in Gaza, who were subjected to torture, abuse, and humiliation, including sexual assault, resulting in the deaths of dozens, while others remain subjected to enforced disappearance. One testimony included prison guards pouring hot water on a detainee's body, and another spoke of detainees being forced to undress and severely beaten. A detainee also reported being forced to drink alcohol, and another was subjected to psychological torture that drove him to attempt suicide after an interrogator informed him of the deaths of his family members. During his visit, it was revealed that his family was fine. Another detainee was attacked by a police dog, causing injury.
Testimonies from inside the detention centers:
Detainee (M.Y.): “They poured hot water on my body.”
Detainee M.Y. said: “I was arrested in February 2024, subjected to field investigation, and then transferred to the Sde Teiman camp for 25 days, then to a camp near Jerusalem, and later to Ofer prison, and then to the Negev prison. Throughout this period, I was subjected to all forms of torture, and even when I was transferred to the Negev prison, hot water was poured on my body. Today, I am detained in the tent section of the Negev prison, where 27 detainees are held in each tent under extremely harsh conditions. We suffer from constant assault, daily starvation, and humiliation. The food is inedible, so we are forced to fast and collect it for one evening meal. We are also denied medical treatment, even for scabies, which the detainees contracted and which worsened due to the lack of hygiene and the lack of preventative and treatment options.”
Detainee (M.Y.): “I was completely stripped and forced to drink alcohol.”
The detainee (M.Y.) said: “I was arrested in February 2024, from the safe passage, then transferred to the Gaza Strip for 25 days, then to a camp near Jerusalem, then to the Ofer camp, where I stayed for 60 days, and then to the Negev prison. In the Gaza Strip, I was beaten with a sharp object, and my wound required metal stitches that remained in my head for 119 days, causing inflammation in my scalp. In the camp near Jerusalem, I was completely stripped and forced to drink alcohol.”
Detainee (H.N.): “I tried to commit suicide after the investigator informed me that my family had been killed.”
The detainee (H.N.) said: “I was arrested in December 2024, through the Civil Administration checkpoint, and was severely beaten and stripped of my clothes. The interrogator told me that the occupation army had killed all of my family members, which caused me a severe psychological crisis that led me to attempt suicide in the cell, had it not been for the intervention of my colleagues. During my visit, the lawyer told me that my family was fine, and I broke down in tears and could not believe what I was hearing.”
Detainee (H.D.): "We live in a state of terror and fear around the clock."
Detainee H.D. said: “I was arrested in October 2024, through the Civil Administration checkpoint, and was subjected to field interrogation. I was then detained in the barracks in the Gaza Strip for 110 days, before being transferred to the Negev prison. We are still living in extremely harsh conditions, and are subjected to daily inspections, assaults, and humiliation. We are forced to kneel with our hands behind our backs during the so-called “number-security check.” Diseases are widespread, and fear and terror are constant, in addition to being denied medical treatment and deliberately starved.”
Detainee (A.W.): “I suffered severe damage to my eyesight as a result of the beating.”
Detainee (A.W.) said: “I was arrested in February 2024, from a school in Khan Yunis, where the occupation army had arrested more than 100 citizens. I was transferred to barracks for 23 days, then to a detention center near Jerusalem, then to Ofer Prison, and later to Negev Prison. During my transfer from Ofer to Negev, I was hit with handcuffs on my head, which led to severe weakness in my vision in my left eye, constant headaches, and loss of balance. I also contracted scabies, which returned after I recovered due to the unsanitary conditions.”
Detainee (Kh.Y.): “My leg was broken and I did not receive any treatment.”
Detainee (K.Y.) said: "I was arrested in December 2023, from a school in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood after being displaced. I was transferred to the barracks in the Gaza Strip, and then to the Negev prison. During my arrest, I was severely beaten, causing a fracture in my right leg. I did not receive any treatment despite the severe pain. I was not even given painkillers. I have difficulty walking and constant pain."
Detainee (H.R.): “A police dog attacked me and bit my foot.”
Detainee (H.R.) said: “I was arrested in October 2024, from Rafah, and was subjected to field interrogation, then I was stripped of my clothes. A police dog attacked me and bit my foot. I was later transferred to the Gaza Strip, where I was subjected to the “disco” interrogation and other interrogations by the intelligence services, then to the Ofer camp, then to the “Moscobiyya” cells, where I was held in solitary confinement for four months, and I was subjected to military interrogations in “Ashkelon”. Just a week ago, I was brutally beaten with batons.”
Key facts about Gaza detainees:
Since the beginning of the war of extermination, human rights organizations have been unable to obtain an accurate figure for the number of people arrested in Gaza as a result of enforced disappearance, but the number is estimated in the thousands.
The testimonies of Gaza detainees are among the most brutal, given the scale of the crimes committed against them.
The occupation established new camps specifically to hold detainees from Gaza, most notably: Sde Teiman, Anatot, Ofer Camp, Naftali, and the Rakefet section under Ramle Prison.
The majority of Gaza detainees are held in the Negev Prison and the Ofer Prison/Camp.
According to the Israeli Prison Service, as of early July 2025, the number of Gaza detainees classified as "unlawful combatants" reached 2,454, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the genocide. This figure does not include detainees held in military camps, but only those under the administration of the Prison Service.
The "Unlawful Combatant Law" constitutes a key tool in legitimizing the crime of enforced disappearance. It violates international law in substance and structure and reinforces the widespread use of torture against detainees in Gaza.
In this context, the Prisoners' Authority and the Prisoners' Club affirm that the occupation continues its genocide and crimes in full view of the world, without any real change that contributes to stopping the genocide and the comprehensive aggression against our people, one of the forms of which are the ongoing crimes against prisoners and detainees. Indeed, the passage of more time in the continuation of the genocide means that the state of impotence that human rights organizations suffer from has gone beyond this expression, and questioning the feasibility of the existence of a human rights system has become our duty, with the expansion of the concept of the state of exception that the Israeli occupation enjoys at the international level.
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Hot water torture and forced drinking: horrific testimonies of the occupation's torture of Gaza detainees.