Ex-prisoners report sexual assault and starvation as rights groups say at least 60 have died in ‘torture camp’ jails

• Palestinian prisoners describe widespread abuse in Israel’s jails

Ashraf al-Muhtaseb is a musician who described leaving Israel’s jails with no hearing in his left ear, four fractured ribs and a broken hand, so ill and weak from hunger he could no longer walk.

Dropped at an Israeli checkpoint on his own, he says he began crawling towards his home in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, until a passerby picked him up.

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