Deprived of food and daylight, Tamer was beaten and humiliated and did not receive medical care. “The whole time I was in prison, the blindfold was not taken off my eyes at all, except on interrogation days. During interrogation, they would uncover my eyes and put it back on after. I didn’t see the sun until I was released from prison. Food was once every three to four days. It was a pack of liquid vitamins. In the morning, they would wake you up to drink and the same at night. They’d put a straw in my mouth, you take a little and then he says, “that’s it, enough”. Circumstances no one knows about but God.”

He says they held him in a prison tent for 35 days before releasing him without charge. On release, he says, he was “dumped” in southern Gaza and had to crawl for a couple of miles.

He was treated in four different Gaza hospitals then suffered from a blood clot in his lung and fell into a coma, he says.
When he awoke some 25 days later, he had lost sight in his right eye.

Tamer Ossama Salem al-Hafy’s horrific recount is consistent with those of other Palestinians who have been detained by Israel, like these men, and with statements by human rights groups on alleged abuse and mistreatment.