Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who was released Monday morning after seven months in an Israeli prison, said at a news conference: "I am surprised by the talk of officials in the Israeli government about their lack of knowledge that I have left prison. I have been officially released." According to him, "There was torture almost every day in the prisons in Israel. The Israeli court told me that there was no charge against me and that I would be detained until further notice. We were thrown between more than one Israeli prison, and in Ofer prison the prisoner lived every day only on a square of bread."