New Delhi, June 10 -- Mohammed Zaki al-Bakri, a Gaza civil servant who was held prisoner by Israeli soldiers after the October 7 attack on Gaza, says he was raped by a huge dog during his time in Israeli custody. Recounting the horror he faced at the hands of Israeli guards, al-Bakri says he remembers the exact date he was raped.

"I think the date was 10th April 2024. This was the worst day I went through there. They took away many of our young men, leaving about six or seven of us. They treated us like crazy," he told Al Jazeera.

He recalled, "They put us in a small cage outside. Outside the cage we were in, there was a small case, like a passage, they call it something like a waiting area. They stripped us of our clothes while we were...