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(18 Dec 2023)
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Rafah - 18 December 2023
1. Tracking shot of Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jail
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) No name given, recently released from Israeli jail:
“They entered our homes and arrested us. We have been detained for 25 days. They tortured and beat us. Thank God, we are here, we have been released.“
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) No name given, recently released from Israeli jail:
“I am from Gaza (City). They arrested me from my home while I was sitting with my wife and children, they asked me to come out, 'we are the army' (Israeli Army). I came out of the house, and they took me to the Be'er Sheva area, they tortured us, subjected us to electric shocks. We suffered a lot.“
4. Various of prisoners walking away
5. Prisoners walking
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Abd Rabbo, recently released from Israeli jail, from northern Gaza Strip:
“The majority of the prisoners that are currently leaving saw torment which has not occurred in any other country."
(Off-camera prisoner (Arabic) No name given: "It resembles the torture in Guantanamo Bay.")
"They said this is a safe line for exit, but it is not safe.“
7. People surrounding prisoners
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Abd Rabbo, recently released from Israeli jail, from northern Gaza Strip:
“This is not a safe way, it is a path to arrest. The majority here are employees affiliated with the Palestinian Authority, and some of them were previously detained. We are officers from the (Palestinian) Preventive Security, and there are officers from the Presidential Security. I am from the Presidential Guard, and he is from the Preventive Security. Most of us are loyal to the Palestinian National Authority.“
9. Prisoners talking to people
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad al- Hassasnah, recently released from Israeli jail, from northern Gaza Strip:
“They (Israeli soldiers) were calling us by names at the checkpoint. Upon entering, there is a container that can diagnose (identify) you and know who you are, we enter the container with our families, they left the families on the side and called out names, he called me in a different way, saying, hey, the bald one, come.“
11. Various of Al- Hasasnah showing the effects on his wrists from handcuffing and marks on his legs
STORYLINE:
Some 60 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces returned to Gaza on Monday, entering the territory through the recently opened Kerem Shalom crossing.

Two of the men, unshaven and still in their prison tracksuits, told The Associated Press they had been held in an unspecified facility in southern Israel after being arrested as they fled south from northern Gaza.

Another man, who did not want to reveal his name, said he was arrested and taken away by Israeli soldiers from his home in Gaza City.

All said they were tortured by Israeli soldiers.

According to Mohamed al-Hassanah, one of the freed men, all the prisoners at the facility had their hands tied, were threatened with electrocution, and were only allowed to sleep between midnight and 5 a.m.

Al-Hassasnah said he did not know exactly where he was being held but said that it was roughly an an hour and a half away from Gaza, on the road to Beersheba, in Israel’s southern Negev region.

He said Israeli soldiers detained and separated him from his family while attempting to cross Netzarim, an abandoned Israeli settlement outpost.

Adding to this, Ahmed Abd Rabbo, another of the freed men who was also arrested fleeing south, said that most of those detained were government employees.



AP video shot by Najib Jobain



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