{"id":27316,"date":"2024-04-15T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gaza-decries-ill-treatment-of-prisoners-as-israel-releases-150-detainees\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T16:00:16","slug":"gaza-decries-ill-treatment-of-prisoners-as-israel-releases-150-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gaza-decries-ill-treatment-of-prisoners-as-israel-releases-150-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza decries ill-treatment of prisoners as Israel releases 150 detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Gaza crossing authority, on Monday, disclosed that Israel has released around 150 detainees from the Palestinian territory, alleging that they had been mistreated in detention.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Israeli soldiers rounded up hundreds of Palestinians during their more than six-month military offensive in Gaza, holding them without charge before releasing some in groups.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Gaza crossing authority, the latest detainees to be released were taken to Israel and returned via the Kerem Shalom border crossing before some were treated in a hospital in Rafah, in the south of the besieged territory.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the Gaza Crossings Authority, Hisham Adwan said, \u201cSince the early hours of the morning, 150 prisoners from various parts of the Gaza Strip who were detained by the Israeli occupation have been released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very noticeable that there is severe mistreatment of these prisoners, as a number of them were sent to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital for treatment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military did not comment on the release of these detainees but said the mistreatment of those in detention was \u201cabsolutely prohibited\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are not involved in terrorist activity are released back to the Gaza Strip,\u201d the military told AFP in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Israeli military said detainees \u201care treated in accordance with international law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said last month that Gazans detained by Israeli forces were coming back \u201ccompletely traumatised\u201d and reporting \u201ca broad range of ill-treatment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The reported abuses included threats of electrocution, being photographed naked, sleep deprivation and having dogs used to intimidate them, Lazzarini said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza decries ill-treatment of prisoners as Israel releases 150 detainees<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza crossing authority, on Monday, disclosed that Israel has released around 150 detainees from the Palestinian territory, alleging that they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2563,15],"tags":[1424,180],"class_list":["post-27316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaza","category-news","tag-gaza","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}