[TRIGGER WARNING torture, rape, and sexual assault] My patient explained that the guards would spray the concrete floors with ice-cold water, then force them to strip and lay face-down on the wet ground (during the winter months). For 18 hours a day, they had to sit on their shins, blindfolded, wrists bound, in excruciating silence. Most of them developed scabies, causing severe and constant itching. Not only did scratching make the infections worse, but any movement—including shifting positions, asking for medicine, even flinching—was met with beatings from the IOF soldiers.
But the abuse didn’t end there. My patient showed me the position the soldiers would force them into before sodomizing them with electric batons. He said the IOF guards burned them with cigarettes, released attack dogs that mauled their bodies—especially targeting their genitals—and used pepper spray to torment them further.
My patient also described how the Israeli forces brought Israeli teenagers into the detention camps to mock and humiliate them. These teenagers cursed them, insulted their mothers, wives, and sisters with vile and degrading slurs. They spat on the detainees, urinated on them, and poured freezing cold, or scalding hot water over their bodies.
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