76 coma” and they were able to take the phone number from him. The father noted that he went to the hospital and was able to see his son who was in a very difficult situation. He could not speak properly and there was a feeding needle in his hand and traces of torture were obvious. He told me that he was tortured at the hands of the General Intelligence Service. He said “I saw traces of torture on the wrists of his hands and chest. His face was blue and swollen, and on the back as well.” His son told him that he was handcuffed on his neck and tied up with the ropes from the ceiling and then lowered to the ground. And then he was abraded with a stone all over his body and was placed in a “bathtub” full of cold water and an electric wire was inserted in the water, and then there was urinating on his head by more than one member of the Intelligence and they put a human feces in his mouth. At the end of the investigation, he was beaten at the bottom back of his head, after which he was not able to remember anything. Later, he woke up in the hospital, where he entered in a coma for five days, and did not remember how long he had been in a coma…” Affidavit by Ibrahim Mousa Makhamerh The citizen in question stated, “On 06/01/2010, I was in the Hebron Court and was arrested by the police, and was sent to the Investigation Center in the city of Hebron. I was kept in custody for 15 days in Al‐thahiriyeh Prison. Then the investigators came and took me from there. I was investigated and was accused of burning the car of a group from Yatta. On the first day of investigation, I was exposed to different forms of torture, such as beating on my face, beating with an iron stick. And then they took me to a cell and took off my clothes, and they directed a cold fan in front of me for a long time, because the weather was too cold. Every time one of them entered they cursed at me and asked me if I had not changed my position and I admitted to that. The next day, they took me back to Al‐thahiriyeh Prison.

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