“A nightmare. They tortured me so much that I cannot describe it to you.” With these words, the 29-year-old Gazan prisoner Badr Dahlan summarized his suffering during his month-long detention in the occupation prisons, who was arrested in Khan Yunis.
Badr was released today, Thursday, and is undergoing medical examinations at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in Gaza.
Badr appeared in video clips in a disturbed state, with traces of torture visible on his face, hands, and the rest of his thin body. He also appeared to be in a catastrophic psychological state, unable to complete his words easily. Rather, he stutters, his eyes bulge, and he is in a state of hallucinations, and his speech is unclear.
The scene in which Palestinian prisoner Badr Dahlan appeared sparked a state of shock among the audience on social media platforms. They described the image in which Dahlan appeared as horrific, and others raised many questions about the methods of torture to which prisoners are subjected in the occupation prisons.
Bloggers said that the photo in which Dahlan appeared is the greatest evidence that the Israeli occupation uses the most horrific means of torture and intimidation against Palestinian prisoners.
Others described the scene as horrific and heart-wrenching. Some bloggers expressed their shock at Dahlan’s appearance, and others said that just one month of kidnapping, torture, and abuse in Israeli prisons had turned Bader into a different person.
The prisoner, Badr Dahlan, entered prison, and another person we did not know came out. He was subjected to severe torture and violence, and this left clear and profound physical and psychological effects on him. It was not just a physical prison, but it was also a psychological and mental prison. The physical changes were evident in Badr, as his face became pale and his eyes bore a distracted look… pic.twitter.com/Rj4UiFIXmE
– Rashad (@iiiRashadMsabeh) June 20, 2024
Regarding the psychological aspect in which the prisoner appeared, some psychologists, through their accounts on social media platforms, explained Dahlan’s case by saying that the torture and intimidation to which the prisoners are exposed results in traumas that the senses cannot handle, as appeared to be the case with Badr Dahlan, and they added that the world only talks about The safety of the occupation prisoners and their return on Netanyahu’s conditions.
Some observers called on the resistance factions in Gaza to treat their prisoners in the same way, and compared the bright and elegant state in which the Israeli prisoners appeared at the time of their release with the state of the Palestinian prisoners when Israel releases them as if they were the ghosts of the dead.
The physical and psychological effects that torture left on Badr Dahlan after a month of detention by the occupation forces alone are enough for October 7 to happen, let alone the occupation for 75 years. The Arabs should completely stop talking about the two-state solution. Whoever wants to live with the Zionists should take them to his country pic.twitter.com/i0xzGbhDg8
– Khaled Salaymeh (@kalsal) June 20, 2024
On the fourth of this month, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza published a picture of Badr Dahlan and attached it to the word “missing” and provided contact numbers, but he was not found at the time.
The Ministry of Prisoners in Gaza said that the number of prisoners held by the occupation rose to 9,000, including 300 women, 635 children, and 80 journalists during the war of extermination.
