Journalist Diaa al-Kahlout, who was detained by Israeli authorities along with dozens of other Palestinian men in northern Gaza, has described painful details of his 25 days in Israeli custody to Al Jazeera.

“There are no red lines for the Israeli army in dealing with detainees from Gaza,” al-Kahlout, who was released earlier this week, told Al Jazeera. “We were sitting in a situation of torture”.

Al-Kahlout, a Gaza-based correspondent for news outlet Al Araby Al Jadeed, said Israel’s Shin Bet security service interrogated him about his reporting and journalistic sources while in custody.

During this time, he also saw prisoners being “beaten and humiliated”, facing conditions that amounted to “torture”, he said.