“There is a clock above your head that is ticking,” he said. And if this connection is good for the interrogation: be nice to him, give him a cigarette, drink coffee with him, eat with him, be like his big brother.”īen Hanan said the interrogation of the alleged Nukhba fighters took place across four weeks, mainly in a prison in southern Israel, which he declined to identify. “Sometimes even the opposite, you have to connect to some dots in his personality.
“Sometimes you feel like you want to kill him with your bare hands, but you do nothing,” Ben Hanan told NBC News. He was authorized by the Shin Bet to speak publicly. This account of the interrogation program is based on a series of videos released publicly by the Shin Bet as well as an interview with Shalom Ben Hanan, a veteran intelligence officer who retired last year but returned to service after Oct.
