Hamas operatives hung Palestinian civilians from ceilings with chains, put their heads in sacks and beat their feet with sticks in a series of CCTV videos recently uncovered by the Israel Defense Force, Jewish officials said Sunday.
The harrowing clips, which were recovered from northern Gaza, revealed the brutal tactics that the Palestinian terrorists employed between 2018 to 2020 at the former Outpost 17 base in Jabalia, where IDF troops continue to fight Hamas, Israel said.
“The materials uncovered, expose Hamas’s brutal methods for interrogating civilians, violating human rights, and systematically oppressing residents suspected of opposing the organization’s rule,” the IDF said in a statement.
The nearly 47-minute video compilation that the IDF uploaded to X on Sunday shows how Hamas interrogators chained suspects by their wrists and feet to the ceiling and put sacks over their heads during the questioning inside an office room.
Some of the victims struggle to stand on one foot when the Hamas operatives decide to chain one of their legs.
Others were chained up by their ankles and hung upside down by the interrogators, who beat their soles with a long stick.
Some civilians were also shown being held in similar positions inside a dark and dirty tiled room.
Often times the Hamas interrogators could be seen chatting amongst themselves or completing paperwork as the suspects struggled just inches away from them.
Before publishing the clips, the IDF handed the footage over to the Daily Mail, which noted that the videos could not be independently verified.
There was also no context provided as to why the men in the videos were arrested by Hamas.
The Hamas terror group has long been accused of detaining and torturing civilians when the targeted people are suspected of collaborating with Israel.
The UN Watch Lobby also found that in 2022, two years after the incidents recorded in the tapes, Hamas regularly subjected human rights activists, women, LGBTQ people and political opponents to brutal punishments.
The tapes appear to match one man’s description of the repeated torture he endured in Gaza around that timeframe when Hamas agents discovered he was gay.
“They would torture me so badly,” he told i24News in 2022. “Sometimes, they would tie my feet up and beat them with a stick. After that, every few years, they would arrest me and torture me in the same way.
“They wouldn’t let me sleep or go to the bathroom inside. There was no food,” he added. “They made me swear on the Quran that I won’t be gay again.”
