cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26452254

A former Palestinian prisoner has said that Israeli soldiers poured acid and other chemicals on his body during an interrogation while he was in their custody. Mohammed Abu Tawila, who was kidnapped from Gaza during the Israeli invasion launched in October 2023, was subjected to severe beatings, which included targeting his eye.

He told local media soldiers kidnapped him from an area near the Civil Affairs office in Gaza City to a home belonging to the al-Yazji family. There he was tortured with chemical substances, including acid, chlorine, dishwashing liquid, laundry detergent, soap and air fresheners. “They were ignited on my body for three days,” the former detainee said.

Once the soldiers saw how his body had reacted to the acid attack and other chemicals, they transferred him to the occupied West Bank. Marks of the torture he describes can be seen on his back, arms and face in the local news reports.

“My eye was included [in the torture]. One of them would keep punching me in the eye, while wearing gloves with something tough, that resembled bone,” he says, adding that he later collapsed on the rubble from the beating.