A human rights monitor has published a report detailing the treatment of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, calling the systematic torture of Palestinians “shocking”.

According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, hundreds of Palestinian detainees released and returned to the Gaza Strip demonstrated exceptionally poor health, illustrating Israel’s “ongoing use of torture to terrorise and persecute prisoners and detainees and break their will until the very end of their detention”.

“The effects of torture were clearly evident, with the emaciated bodies of the released individuals reflecting the severity of systematic crimes and inhumane treatment that exceed all legal and moral bounds,” the report read.

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