'They beat us, they treat us violently,' says newly released Palestinian teen

After being released on early Sunday morning, 17-year-old Yaser Zaamiyeh told Al Jazeera Arabic that he and other Palestinian prisoners were placed in appalling conditions under Israeli detention, including being subject to beatings and being given little food.

Zaamiyeh, who said he was jailed at the age of 16 and placed at Megiddo Prison outside of Haifa, told the news channel that "the prison administration was horrible".

"They treated us violently. They've beaten up a lot of people, some of them died in their own [Israeli guards'] hands," Zaamiyeh said.

"Some people's heads were split open in our section of the prison, little children - 10 years old, 12 years old - are being treated with extreme violence," he added.

Zaamiyeh told the reporter that many of the prisoners at Meggido are doing well, but suffer from "extremely difficult conditions".

He said that they are fed dry rice, and are kept in freezing temperatures that prevent them from being able to sleep for more than a few hours a day.