(10 Apr 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 10 April 2025
1. Various of Palestinians detained by Israel troops in Gaza getting out of Red Cross vehicle after they were released
2. Various of relatives hugging prisoners and crying
3. Various of Marah Ayoub (young woman with scarf) crying and walking with her released father, telling him UPSOUND (Arabic): "I swear, Dad, we were waiting for you to be released (even) for minutes. Every released prisoner, we went to them (to ask about you). Thank God". Her father, Fayez Ayoub, saying UPSOUND (Arabic): "Torment, torment"
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Marah Ayoub, relative of released detainee:
"Is this how my father was? Is this what he has become? He wasn’t like this, this isn’t my father that we know. This isn’t the father that they took away. My father lived through famine, through a difficult life, he lived under bombardment, he got out from under the rubble twice. My father was taken while he was injured, his pelvis was broken and he had a fracture in his spine. He had just left the hospital, he could barely walk. Why did they take him to torture him?"
5. Various of Ayoub standing with prisoners
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayez Ayoub, released detainee:
"From November 6 until today, 156 days have passed since we were in agony. We were tortured and were in pain. There was no rest or sleep for us there. We were tortured every day, and every day they oppressed and humiliated us. We thank God that we came out safe."
7. Various of released detainees
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hani Abu Sharif, released detainee arrested on November 27:
"24-hour of beatings, and they stripped us of our clothes. We were naked. They humiliated us and made us sit on stones. Our feet were bleeding. Every two or three days, we were oppressed. The prisoners did not sleep. They only allowed us to shower once every month or two."
9. Various of released detainees in emergency department
10. Various of Red Cross vehicles outside emergency department
STORYLINE:
Ten Palestinians detained from Gaza by Israeli troops were freed and returned to the territory on Thursday, saying they had suffered constant abuse while imprisoned.
Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians since it launched its military campaign in Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.
It has done periodic releases of detainees throughout the war, though this was the first since it restarted the war in mid-March, breaking a ceasefire with the militant Hamas group.
The 10 men, all dressed in grey sweatpants and shirts, were brought by bus to a hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah, where they were welcomed by family members.
They had all been detained from the northern Gaza Strip during Israel’s last offensive there before the January ceasefire.
They said they had been held at least part of the time in Sde Teiman, a military prison camp that has become notorious for abuses of Gaza detainees.
One of the freed men, Fayez Ayoub, looked gaunt and walked with difficulty, supported by another man.
“I swear, Dad, every moment we waited for you to be released,” his daughter Marah Ayoub told him, crying.
“Every time a prisoner was released, we went to them" to ask about her father.
“Torment, torment,” he replied to her.
Detained by Israeli troops on Nov. 6, he said “156 days have passed with us in agony. We were tortured and were in pain.”
He said detainees were abused every day and had little sleep.
“He wasn’t like this.”
They were only allowed to shower every month or two, he said.
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