The Palestinian Prisoners Society says the Israeli military carried out “systematic terrorism” against the abductees who were recently released under the Gaza ceasefire deal.
A new report by the PPS on Tuesday also sheds light on the systematic torture, severe beatings and brutal treatment the Palestinians faced before their release.
Israeli troops and undercover agents also raided the homes of the freed Palestinians and threatened to bomb the places where their well-wishers had gathered to receive them across the occupied territories, the report said.
“One released prisoner was detained while he was heading to receive treatment at a hospital. He was subjected to abuse during his detention.”
The Israeli military also summoned Ashwaq Awad to meet with Israeli intelligence authorities.
The PPS expressed concern about the potential re-abduction of the Palestinians, especially under the regime’s 2009 military law, which allows this to happen even under exchange deals.
Elsewhere in the report, the rights group appealed to the mediators to intervene in the issue of freed Palestinians and the challenges they are forced to face.
Harrowing testimonies by the Palestinians as well as human rights lawyers and several pieces of video footage illustrate some of the worst forms of torture and ill-treatment by the Israeli military since October 2023.
Similar accounts of torture have already been documented from decades of Israeli hostility across the occupied West Bank.
Mahmoud Samer Jabarin, a recently freed Palestinian, says Israeli jails are “graveyards for the living.”
Jabarin recounted harrowing experiences of torture, overcrowding and dehumanizing treatment during the seven years he was held by the regime.
Jabarin is a resident of the refugee camp of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. He was released as part of the prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime on January 25.
Israel has released a list of more than 700 Palestinians who are to be released under the deal. More than 230 are serving life sentences and will be permanently sent to exile upon release.
Hamas has said Israel was forced to “open the doors of his cells to our heroic prisoners” after months of “unprecedented brutal aggression that targeted every inch of Gaza in its barbarity.”