Arabic → English transcript

This infant is one and a half years old, but that did not protect him from the torture of the occupation soldiers.

The Israeli soldiers put out their cigarettes on his feet after surrounding him together with his father

under heavy fire.

The doctors said that we took him to the physicians, and three or four of them examined him

and said this was not killing, meaning not a bullet or a gunshot.

No, this is torture that remains on his legs, from something on them.

Through the note it goes back to a cigarette burn, and they said someone had pressed it into his leg.

Jawad went out with his father, Osama Abu Nassar, to buy some snacks.

But the child’s outing with his father quickly turned into a tragic scene

as heavy gunfire broke out east of Al-Maghazi camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

The occupation soldiers detained the father after forcing him to leave the little one behind.

According to field accounts and family testimonies,

the soldiers used him as a tool of pressure during the interrogation of his father

by extinguishing cigarettes on his body in order to extract confessions.

The infant remained detained for hours,

during which he was subjected to severe torture before he was later returned to his family through the International Committee of the Red Cross.

When he returned, he was in a severe physical and psychological condition

He cries continuously

While the torture marks still bear witness to crimes that are almost beyond human belief

As for his father, he is still under arrest