Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released video testimony from Palestinian lawyer Sari Huriyyah detailing the barbaric treatment of prisoners at Israel’s Megiddo prison, which he now calls “Abu Ghraib” after the notorious US prison camp during the US occupation of Iraq, Al Jazeera reports.
Huriyyah tells of how Israeli prison guards made some of the Palestinian prisoners “bark like dogs”.
“If they refused, the beat them until they started barking,” he tells the rights group.
Young Palestinian prisoners “were beaten and humiliated”, he says, recounting how “they forced the young guys to kiss an Israeli flag on the wall”.
“Whoever refused was abused. One of the female guards even took a picture with one of the detainees as he kissed the flag. There was constant beating, cursing and humiliation,” he says in his testimony.