"Three young Palestinian detainees were 'abused and beaten' during their arrest," Committee of Prisoners Affairs

Committee of Prisoners Affairs documented three young Palestinian men's testimonies beaten and abused during their detention, resulting in physical and psychological harm to them, and then transferred to the Etzion detention center.

According to reports by the Committee's lawyer after paying a visit to the detention center, prisoner Muhammad Ibrahim Diriyah, 17, from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, was beaten and faced abuses after the occupation forces raided his house at 3:30 a.m. and searched him before they took him to the “Etzion” detention center on foot.

 Diriyah forcibly walked for a distance of two kilometers, as the soldiers deliberately kept pushing him to the ground and dragging him between the trees.

As for the detainee Waseem Mansour Abu Odeh, 19 years old, from Hebron, he was arrested near the Ibrahimi Mosque at twelve noon, as he was performing a pray, during which he was severely attacked and beaten by hands and feet, and rifles on his head and neck by the Israeli occupation forces.

Later to the same Palestinian detainee, he was transferred to the Etzion Detention Center, where he is still being held. In another action, the occupation army stormed the home of the boy, Amir Ahmed Muhammad Taqatqa, 16, from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, searched him, and destroyed his belongings.