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Number of Torture Victims Increasing in Hamas-Controlled Prisons
(Al-Monitor) Mohammed Othman - Torture has become a key method of interrogating detainees in Hamas-controlled prisons in Gaza, Palestinian human rights centers report. The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), in a report issued on Sept. 20, noted that during July it received 38 complaints of torture and ill-treatment in the Palestinian territories, 26 of which were in Gaza. In its annual report for 2016, ICHR documented hundreds of complaints submitted by victims of torture in Gaza.