77 Affidavit by Mohammad ‘Akef Abu Shalbi, 19, a resident of Al‐Shate Refugee Camp/Gaza City He stated in his testimony that “At about 10:30 pm on Thursday evening, 31/12/2009, while I was at the family home, my uncle came and told me that the police were asking about me and they wanted me ... I went out and they put me in a car and members of the General Investigations were in the car... Once I got to the police station, members of the General Investigations blindfolded my eyes with a flag of Fatah movement. One of them hit me on my head so I lifted the blindfold from my eyes, and punched him on his face. Then the members of the General Investigations assaulted me with sticks and cigarette butts all over my body. I did not feel myself as I lost consciousness due to the severity of the beating. Afterwards I woke up by having cold water poured on my body, and my clothes were wet and the weather was very cold. Members of the General Investigations took me to the interrogation room and forced me to sit on a bed in the room and to take off my clothes. I remained naked except for my shorts, which fortunately I was wearing under my pants ... They forced me to lie on my back, and two people tied up my feet with a stick tied with a rope and lifted my feet up after putting them in the rope. Two people beat me with thick sticks on my feet and my back and during the beating they were saying to me to admit to whom the flags are and who is with you! It lasted for half an hour. Then they hit me again and due to severity of the beating, I told them that the flags are for me. They stood me against the office door in the cold and put a blindfold on my eyes. They poured cold water on my body so as it wouldn’t swell although the weather was very cold. They forced me to stand with my face to the wall ... A person came and beat me and hit me on my face. I lifted the blindfold from my eyes and hit him with my hand on his face. A number of police officers beat me all over my body, and then they tied up my feet and beat me in an open area in the police station overlooking the houses. A woman who was standing at the window of her house on the second floor saw me and started screaming. They took me to a room and started beating me with sticks while I was blindfolded, pouring cold water on my body, and I was naked and stripped of my clothes except the shorts I was wearing. And whenever one of them passed, they beat me. On Saturday night at 23:00, they called me again to the investigation room. A detective, called Abu Jafar, took me to the interrogation room and he sat me