Ismail al-Kahlout, a nurse at Kamal Adwan Hospital who was freed after being detained by Israeli forces, says he was held in “difficult conditions” for more than 12 hours.

“We have seen, after leaving the hospital, a volume of destruction that my words can’t describe. Huge areas were demolished and levelled as if the Israelis want to wipe them off the map,” al-Kahlout told Al Jazeera.

“The Israeli soldiers kept us tied up and blindfolded where we could hear people screaming, but we could not know who exactly was being beaten.”

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