*Released Palestinian detainee relates torture, abuse in Israeli prison* by Al Mayadeen English, July 12, 2024 https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/released-palestinian-detainee-relates-torture--abuse-in-isra
Since October, "Israel" has detained over 9,400 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and abducted thousands from Gaza and hundreds from the 1948-occupied territories. After he was imprisoned for 9 months, 37-year-old Muazzaz Abayat is a shell of his former self, expressing that he "came back from the dead." He was detained without explanation on October 26, just over two weeks after the war on Gaza began, and was imprisoned in the al-Naqab desert prison, held without charge or trial. "They arrested me at home, not surrounded by fighters, but by my children and pregnant wife," he told AFP. . . . *'I have the prison inside me': The emaciated Palestinian bodybuilder broken by Israel* *Muazzaz Abayat speaks to MEE from a hospital bed in his native Bethlehem after spending nearly nine months in Israeli administrative detention* by Lubna Masarwa and Peter Oborne in Bethlehem, occupied Palestine Middle East Eye, July 12 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-west-bank-muazzaz-abayat-prison-interview . . . Before the Israeli army arrested him late last year, Abayat was a big, confident man. An amateur bodybuilder, he weighed 109kg, all muscle. After nine months in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian has lost more than half his body weight. This is another grim, horrifying story from Israel’s war on Gaza. Yet, Muazzaz Abayat has never been to Gaza. He was born and raised in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, where he worked as a butcher until Israeli forces smashed their way into his home at 2.30am on 26 October. No charges were brought against Abayat during the nearly nine months he was kept in Israeli prisons. He was held under administrative detention, allowing a prisoner to be detained at the discretion of the local military commander without any charges being levelled. HaMoked, an Israel-based human rights group, reports that more than 3,500 of the 9,000 Palestinians currently locked up in Israeli prisons are held under administrative detention. Many, like Muazzaz Abayat, are from the West Bank. Since the Hamas-led attack of 7 October, this number has risen sharply. Abayat told Middle East Eye that throughout his stay in jail, he was beaten, abused, tortured, starved and deprived of water. He said that his case was not an exceptional one. Every other Palestinian prisoner faces similar abuse. . . . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31141): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31141 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107209492/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
