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Israel set up facilities dedicated to torturing Palestinians: Rights group

Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with shirtless Palestinian detainees in the Gaza Strip [File: Yossi Zeliger/Reuters]

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians, including 21 from the Gaza Strip, who had been held in Israeli prisons, detailing the torture they were subjected to.

The B’Tselem report, titled Welcome to Hell, revealed on Tuesday that more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been converted into a network of camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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