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Nonetheless, torture and degrading treatment are official Israeli policy, freely practiced against most Palestinian detainees. PCHR cited numerous ways:
-- violent beatings and insults in detention and during interrogations;
-- blindfolding and hitting detainees, especially in the face and abdomen;
-- strangling to cause extreme breathing difficulties;
-- humiliations and insults;
-- forcibly removing hair and beards;
-- hanging detainees by their feet, then beating them on sensitive body parts such as the genital area;
-- bridging under which three interrogators carry a detainee using chains, with his or her face down;
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