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”I’d Better Confess, Otherwise They’ll Kill Me” Testimony of Torture Victims in Israel
”We’re Going to Break Your Back” – The Case of Bahjat Yamen

“I simply felt terrified, and I had excruciating pains in my back and I felt that my back was about to really break, and I yelled and cried and begged, but the torture did not stop.

Ariel even told me straight out right then that they had decided to paralyze me....“They threatened to bring my mother and my wife..

”I Must Confess, Or Else He’ll Kill Me” – The Case of Amin Shqirat

They brought long metal handcuffs and bound my hands behind me with the cuffs on my arms. They would close the cuffs and press on them until the metal dug into the fleshandyoufelt your arm has been amputated. When I cried out in pain, they laughed and jeered”.

“The interrogators threatened me that they would arrest my wife and torture her. Afterwards they told me that she had been taken to the detention center and tortured, that the torture had caused a miscarriage and that the fetus had died.”

”I’m Going to Emerge from the Interrogation Room Paralyzed”– The Case of Luwaii Ashqar

“I would lose consciousness from so much pain, particularly in my back. The edge of the chair was sharp. When I sat on it, it would press into my lower back while the interrogator beat me on my thighs, and that would hurt me very much. This activity was repeated many times, from April 22nd through Tuesday, April 26th”.

”We Have Methods that No One Will Discover” – The Case of Muhammad Barjiyye

“Gur placed cloth black glasses over my eyes, so that I couldn’t see a thing, and began slapping me hard, relentlessly, on both cheeks. Oscar said that I was carrying all of Palestine on my shoulders and that the military interrogation would make me set it down. He released my hands, placed them in front of me and
shackled them again. He said that from now on they didn’t want me to talk. They wanted me to show ability and endurance”.

“Oscar grabbed me by the shoulders and began shaking me for maybe ten minutes, shouting at me to confess. I felt as if heat waves were rising from the nape of my neck and spreading throughout my head, and I had an intense pain in my neck.

”I’d Better Confess, Otherwise They’ll Kill Me” – Case of ‘Abd al-Halim ‘Eiz a-Din.

“They also beat my wife. They pushed her inside. My wife was pregnant, approximately in her second month. Apparently as a result of the pushing and the
subsequent fall, my wife miscarried our baby.

”Those Who Enter Petach Tikvah Don’t Come Out” – The Case of Amjad Abu-Salha

“He said that there are testimonies against me, and that if I didn’t speak, they would beat and torture me, forcing me to speak.
Then Major Rani, responsible for the department, came in and said: “You see that chair. The greatest have sat on that chair and confessed.” I insisted on my version”.

”They’re About to Paralyze My Arms” – The Case of Hassan LedadiyaAtty. Maher Talhami

“At the end of this stage, Itizk or another interrogator would go over to the paper that they had shown me, and mark off that they
had completed one of the torture stages, and again they’d start over... these are the stages that were repeated over time for three consecutive days”.

Stop Torture.org pdf: http://www.stoptorture.org.il//eng/images/uploaded/publications/140.pdf

Time and again, when the "detainee" was nearing death or coma from the tortures visited upon him by the Israeli's, they'd bring in a doctor to keep the "detainee" alive for more interrogation.

Time and again, when the Israeli's couldn't get the "detainee" to say what the torturers wanted the victim to say, they'd bring in the victims wife and or mother for "enhanced interrogation."

These are the actions of the only "democracy" in the ME.

The actions of a nation that likes to proclaim that it is a nation of peace.

The actions of what is supposed to be our only friend in the ME.

Funny, but i can't help but to remember that before Israel came into existence, the U.S. had NO enemies in the ME.

Link to this article: http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/5016