AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The 
Zionist regime’s army has been holding the bodies of 1,500 Palestinians in its desert detention center Sde Teiman since Oct. 7, the regime’s media reported on Tuesday. 
The Israeli daily Haaretz quoted a trooper with the regime who served in the Sde Teiman detention center as saying the bodies are held in refrigerators, and classified in numbers, not based on names.
The trooper added that the bodies are in bad condition as some of them have signs of decomposition, others have limbs amputated, and some have recognizable faces, while others do not.
Haaretz noted that the bodies were not taken to any forensic medicine center for autopsy.
The daily quoted the Israeli army as saying that any decision regarding the return of the bodies is up to the occupying regime.
Since June, the regime’s top court has been looking into a case brought by Israeli human rights organizations demanding to immediately close the Sde Teiman detention center following reports of torture and killing cases against Palestinians detained in the center.
While there is no exact number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army from Gaza, there are over 9,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, according to Israeli figures.  
The Palestinian Authority’s prisoners affairs minister on Monday accused Israel of waging an abusive “war of revenge” against Palestinian detainees since the start of the Zionist aggression on Gaza.
Accounts of mistreatment including torture, rape and other sexual abuses in Israeli jails have surged in recent days.
“Israel has been waging a war of revenge against prisoners within the walls of prisons and detention centers since the first day of the decision to go to war against Gaza,” said the PA’s Prisoners’ Affairs Authority head Qadura Fares.
Speaking at a press conference in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, he added that Palestinian prisoners were treated as “hostages” and the mistreatment was part of the “pressure.”
The authority’s lawyer Khaled MaHajjna denounced abuses which he said he had been told of when he visited detained Gaza journalists Mohammed Arab and Tariq Abed at the Ofer detention center near Ramallah.
MaHajjna said he was told how guards forced one prisoner to “lay on his stomach naked and then a fire extinguisher tube was inserted into his buttocks and the fire extinguisher was turned on.”
He said he was told how other inmates had “electric prods” used on their bodies.