(24 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 24 December 2023
1. Various of Palestinian released after being arrested by the Israeli military, in Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, some lying on floor on stretchers
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khamis al-Burdainy, released after being arrested by the Israeli military:
"I was seated with my family, my daughters and daughters-in-law. Suddenly tanks, a bulldozers (Israeli) hit the house, half of it fell on us, we raised our hands , the Jews entered and took the women and the girls and also took us. They asked us to take off our clothes. We were naked, they tied our hands behind our backs and covered our eyes and took us to the farms, they kept beating us with sticks, by kicking us with their feet. We didn’t sleep, eat or drink for three days. They kept moving us between the farms and taking us from one tank to another at night and during that they were dropping water on us while we are naked."
3. Marks claimed to be from torture on his leg
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khamis al-Burdainy, released after being arrested by the Israeli military:
“I can’t tell about torture, all types of torture. It was extraordinary, we don’t know where we are.“
5. Various of Mahmoud Salem, released prisoner in ICU hospital bed, marks claimed to be from torture on body and hand
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Salem, released after being arrested by the Israeli military:
“They asked me to go down the stairs and I couldn't see anything, my eyes and hands were tied, they pushed me off the stairs and I fell down to the ground every time. We spent 30 days in the prison and we were also beaten, even the female soldiers were assaulting and beaten us. (There was) no dignity, we were insulted a lot. A female soldier would come and beat an old man, aged 72 years old. “
7. Mid of paramedic talking to released Palestinians
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Salem, released after being arrested by the Israeli military:
“I feel like my back is totally broken, my shoulders, as well as my legs and knees, how I can walk? “
9. Various of Saqer al-Jamal, released after being arrested by the Israeli military, in hospital bed
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saqer al-Jamal, released after being arrested by the Israeli military:
"I told him (the Israeli investigator ) as you see, I walk with crutches and I have no place to stay, you are bombing us everywhere , and I found here a place where I can sleep ( al-Fakhoura school in Jabaliya ). I don’t have anywhere to stay, I'm tired, he asked me 'how did you get food?' I answered I walk in the street asking residents for food, I’m alone , if you want to shoot me , you can shoot , we are tired of everything."
11. Mohammad al-Kurdi, ambulance driver talking to people
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad al-Kurdi, ambulance drive, released after being arrested by the Israeli military:
“Our eyes were covered, we were tortured, you sleep and wake up with your hands tied to handcuffs, in addition to the investigation and insulting, whoever has been freed from the prison, God has written to him a new age (life)."
13. Various of people bringing injured released prisoner to X-ray room, laying him on bed
14. Exterior of hospital
STORYLINE:
Palestinians who were arrested by the Israeli military in the north of the Gaza Strip and released through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south were treated in Rafah on Sunday.
They were not given food or water for three days he told The Associated Press.
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