A new study by a pair of leading Israeli human rights organizations has found Israeli interrogators are routinely beating and sometimes torturing Palestinian detainees.

Sarit Michaeli of B’Tselem: “Some of these methods include sensory deprivation, the holding of interrogees in appalling conditions and painful shacklings for long periods of time. In some cases the ISA (Israeli army) uses methods that constitute torture under international law. Those methods involve the use of direct physical violence on Palestinian detainees in the opposition of course both to international law and also to the Israeli high court decision of 1999.”

B’Tselem and the Center for the Defense of the Individual based its report on testimony from 73 Palestinian detainees.