“In Naqab, one guy was bleeding from his private area behind, and he told me what they did to him […] he told me three soldiers put an M16 in my private areas, I heard this directly from him, he was terrified. […] First thing they put the M16 and then the three took turns raping him. I saw him bleeding with my own eyes from his bottom. […] His mental health was terrible […] I don’t think he told anyone. He started talking to himself in prison, Naqab. No one knew about him, but he spoke to me as a paramedic.”

“He hung me in the warehouse and electrocuted me. I had iron cuffs on my hands, and they hung me from the warehouse ceiling where chains were coming down. My feet were above the ground, I was literally hanging from the warehouse ceiling. They put me in an overall that had electricity wires around it and put like a headband with wires on my head. [...] I have signs on my hands and feet from being electrocuted. I swear, it was so degrading, it was unbelievable. I was helping people as a paramedic, I never expected something like this. I still have muscle spasm in my hand.”

“[An Israeli soldier] started kicking me in the face with his combat boots until blood gushed from my nose and under my eyes. He kept beating me in my chest and stomach. All the soldiers around joined him and struck me with the butts of their rifles in my head, stomach, and chest. They beat me with their knees on my flanks until I was short of breath. He pulled my hair and covered my face with sand and made me eat from it.”

“Then the soldier took me to another place with insanely loud music, you can’t hear anything else but the music. He gave me half a piece of bread and half a bell pepper to eat and said have breakfast. I ate the bread, and was about to eat the bell pepper, when someone kicked my hand with his leg and threw the pepper, and said lay on the ground, and kept me on the ground, cuffed with hands and feet and blindfolded. I have no idea how long I was laying down, I lost track of time, they had very loud music on. A soldier came to me and said open your mouth, he shoved me with his leg and said open your mouth, and he threw water in my mouth a bit but the rest all over my body. They called my number […] but with the loud music I could barely hear [...] The place with the music there were many fans, maybe 3, it was freezing cold.”

“We were then transferred to a place they referred to as a ‘dormitory’, but it was nothing more than a 10 x 6 metre room with four large loudspeakers and an air conditioner blasting extremely cold air, along with large fans. The floor was covered with mattresses that were no thicker than half a centimetre, and beneath them were sharp-edged rocks. They pushed us towards these mattresses while we were still in restraints. They gave us blankets that were only 85 cm long, and they were torn and inadequate to cover our bodies. We were so cold and in so much pain that we couldn't stop moaning, but every time we made a sound, the soldiers would beat us.”

“They brought in military dogs, that was very terrifying because I was still blind-folded. I screamed and yelled, that was the worst moment in my life, not seeing the dogs where they’re coming from and being cuffed.”

“They took me to interrogation, two masked soldiers took me while they continued to hit me to a tent, there was gravel on the ground. They told me to take off my clothes, I was completely naked. They made me wear pampers and told me to go to interrogation.”

“…A soldier came and ordered me to spread my legs so he could kick me in the sensitive area with his shoe. I started calling out and pleading, "Officer, officer," until another soldier came and pulled him away from me…”

“A soldier sprayed something like a pepper gas on my right eye, it started burning like crazy. I couldn’t see what he sprayed but it smelt like peppers, like gas, I don’t know.”

“He continued to beat me severely. He pulled me off the chair and ordered me to squat with my hands behind my back and lift my fingertips off the ground. He was sitting on a chair with his feet stretched out on another chair at the end of the room, and he ordered me to walk in that position for about 8 metres until I touched his shoe with my head. If I didn't touch his shoe with my head, the soldiers would beat me. The position he made me stand and walk in was extremely painful, and I began to groan. He said to me, "This is the sound your mother makes when we rape her, and the sound your sister makes when we rape her!" He used vulgar language that I can't repeat. I was so exhausted that I fell to the ground. They beat me and ordered me to get up!”

“Then he asked me: ‘So do you want to admit that you are Hamas or should I let the young men put an electric baton in your ass and cut off your dick?’ [...] One soldier punched me in my stomach to kneel, and then he pulled my hair raising my head up and then he slapped me on the face several times. The soldier told me ‘do you know who will come now, Captain Yousef, you know Captain Yousef what's his speciality? He loves to fuck men, he will work with you one by one.’ I felt so much humiliation and it was very degrading, I felt devastation and a lump inside of me.”

“I was slapped on the face two by soldiers, they kept asking if you’re gay, when you’re stripped, they look and verbally harass you. [...] they took us, without our clothes and took us from the south area through maternity, 2 kilometres, Page 21 of 51 Healthcare Workers Watch alone, without clothes…”

“We begged them to allow us to sleep, they kept strong flashlights turned on so we couldn’t sleep.”

“They did not allow us to pray, perform ablution, or call to prayer. We had no freedom to practice our religious rituals.”

“We were taken to an area full of sand, thorns, and very sharp rocks. All the detainees are still suffering from the effects of bruises and wounds on our hands and backs. We were wearing only our underwear, and the weather was very cold.”

“I asked the soldiers about my belongings, one soldier said, ‘you’ll find them in Gaza, yalla go.” I said to myself I’ll never get my belongings back, they’re gone. I found Gaza workers at the crossing, who had their money taken from them, even their phones; they got nothing back from their belongings.”

“There was a clear system of sleep deprivation and stress positions, 18 hours sitting on the knees, everything else prohibited. Soldiers roaming around us. They punished some detainees by forcing them to stand on the side. A picture from a report maybe Haaretz is an exact replica of where I was. Many had arthritis in their knees, many had chronic illnesses. I had an injury in my leg and back, it was impossible for me to sit like this. I spoke to them in English, they kept saying I don’t care, even if you have a spinal fracture, shut up. Before becoming Shawish. I was punished like the one in the picture, a female soldier cuffed my hands high on the fence, for an hour.”

“The commander replied, ‘I know how to make you confess, where’s your mom?’ I told him she’s at the checkpoint and he said, ‘I will bring your mom and strip her completely naked in front of everyone in the open field.’ Honestly, when I heard this, I was psychologically broken, I felt humiliated…”

“Because of the severe beating, I told him, "I'm going to faint!" and indeed, I fainted. I regained consciousness, and he was holding my little finger with pliers. I said "Ouch," and the mark from the pliers remains to this day.”