Detainees are forced to sit on a kindergarten-size chair with shorter front legs, tightly handcuffed to the back of the chair so that they are in the precarious position of restricted sliding. Their feet are shackled, and their heads are hooded with a filthy sack that reaches the shoulders. They are deprived from sleep and have loud music blaring continuously day and night. In some cases, they are given a meal once a day to eat on the toilet floor. In other cases, they are held in Shabeh 24 hours a day except for Friday and Saturday when they are put in a small cell.
Interrogators go home for the weekend.
So much for the ticking bomb theory. Since 1994, petitions against the GSS have been brought to the Israeli High Court. Each time the case was indefinitely postponed. The court has still not set a date for its final decision. Israel continues to violate the basic human rights of Palestinians without serious consequence or condemnation.