“My son was subjected to severe torture, as a result of which he lost the ability to urinate and go to the toilet, and reached a very difficult health condition that almost led to his death.” In his loudest voice, the Palestinian citizen Kayed Sabbah shouted these words, calling for the immediate release of his son Yassin, 22, and others from his village who are politically imprisoned. In Palestinian Authority prisons for 45 days.

At the Martyrs’ Roundabout in the center of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, Abu Yassin, his wife, and dozens of residents of his village ‘Urif (south of Nablus) protested on Sunday afternoon to refuse the Palestinian Authority’s continued detention of dozens of their children in its prisons, some of whom have been on an open hunger strike for a few days.

Abu Yassin, who held in his hand a cartoon banner that read (popular protests are neither terrorism nor attempted murder), said that his son was subjected to severe torture in a "slaughterhouse" (prison) in Jericho during and after the interrogation, which made him lose consciousness and the ability to go to the toilet "to relieve himself." Many detainees are transferred daily to hospitals.

In his interview with Al Jazeera Net, he explained that his son and the others had not been proven guilty of any accusation, "despite being subjected to severe torture, and that they were arrested as a result of malicious reports."

He added that he was the one who "handed his son over to security" because he was certain of his innocence, and despite that, he was arrested and tortured.

Abu Yassin confirmed that they sent messages to "all sane people" to release his son and the others, but no one responded to them, and asked whether he should receive his son's "lifeless body."

Kholoud Sabah: My son suffers in very harsh health conditions in prison (Al-Jazeera)

Between a detainee and a stalker

From the village of Orif alone, the PA security forces arrest about 25 young men (11 of them are on hunger strike) and are still chasing more than 30 others, accusing them of inciting riots during the events in Jerusalem and the recent war on Gaza. During the last Battle of the Sword of Jerusalem.

Kholoud Sabah (Yassin's mother) says that she learned through released detainees that her son suffers from very severe health conditions, and that after several attempts she was able to visit him recently in his prison to find that his weight decreased by about 30 kilograms.

She says that she and her family live with double anxiety between the arrest of her son Yassin and the pursuit of two other of her sons, "one of whom has been absent from his home and his children for more than a month."

high school student

Like Kholoud, the mother of the detainee, Osama Hafez, attended the sit-in and was holding the "seating number" card for the high school exam, as he is supposed to be among his colleagues now to take the exams.

She tells Al Jazeera Net that this arrest lost her son a year of his life due to his forcible absence of the exam, and that the security services do not provide him with prison conditions that would help him study, "and she holds 13 detainees with him in the room."

The authority detains dozens of Palestinians in its prisons “politically”, as their families say, and human rights institutions confirm, but usually deny this and say that their detention is for other reasons or “security”.

For her part, Mona Mansour, a former deputy in the Legislative Council, considered that the Palestinian citizen in the West Bank really lacks freedom of opinion and expression, "because he lives between the anvils of the occupation and the hammer of the authority that silences mouths."

These political arrests come in light of the state of repression launched by the security services against citizens and journalists alike, who went out for the fourth day in demonstrations condemning the killing of political activist Nizar Banat at the hands of the security services last Thursday.

Mona Mansour: The Palestinian in the West Bank lives between the anvil of the occupation and the hammer of the authority (Al-Jazeera)

until the press

Journalist Najla Zaitoun - who was severely beaten and her mobile phone confiscated - says that she was covering a solidarity rally with Nizar Banat yesterday, and was directly beaten by security personnel in police uniform and others in civilian clothes, "and my phone was stolen after I was beaten with a stick on my hand and pushed to the ground."

Najla, who works in the "Quds" network, adds - in her speech to Al-Jazeera Net - that she and other journalists were covering the march, so they were surprised by a counter-march and "pro-authority" that penetrated their effectiveness, and members of it and the security, wearing civilian clothes, assaulted and beat them directly and without warning.

And she added that one of them chased her in the crowd and tried to arrest her after throwing a stone at her. "This element had threatened me two days ago by trampling under his feet and calling me a dog," she said.

Like Naglaa, journalist Fayhaa Khanfar recorded the assault and how she was attacked that bruised her hand, and the medical staff at Ramallah Governmental Hospital refused to register her injury as an "attack" by the security services, but by "others".

A sit-in by the families of political detainees in Nablus (Al-Jazeera)

international condemnation

Pictures and videos showed the Palestinian security forces chasing the demonstrators and assaulting them in the center of Ramallah in a blatant manner and dragging them into the streets, which called on human rights and other international institutions to reject this. Against the protesters in Ramallah.

The statement called on the Palestinian Authority to guarantee freedom of opinion and expression, and demanded an investigation into "the use of excessive and unjustified force, and to hold officials accountable, including those who gave orders."

The Office of the European Union Representative for Human Rights also expressed its strong dissatisfaction with the "brutal" behavior of the Palestinian security against the demonstrators in Ramallah, and called on the authority to guarantee freedom of expression, saying that it is closely following what is happening and human rights violations will not be tolerated.

While 10 detainees appeared before the Public Prosecution Office in Ramallah on Sunday morning on charges of illegal gathering, in reference to participating in the demonstration condemning the killing of Nizar Banat, the Authority’s security spokesman, Talal Dwaikat, denied the presence of any security personnel in civilian clothes at the Manara roundabout in Ramallah during Sunday’s march.