The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has detailed mistreatment and “torture” of Palestinians taken prisoner by the Israeli army, Al Jazeera reports.

In a report built on testimony from newly released people who spent days in Israeli custody, the Geneva-based rights group detailed how army and Shin Bet members treat Palestinians as “non-human animals”.

Detainees are regularly beaten, stripped naked, and made to sit on their knees on the street for long periods. They are also made to curse themselves and Palestinian groups, endure electric-shock torture, are burned with cigarettes, and held in iron cages, it said.

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