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submitted 7 months ago by Silverseren@kbin.social to c/world@lemmy.world

Over the first four days of Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange, Israel arrests 133 Palestinians while releasing 150.

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But the worry for Palestinian prisoners does not end after their release. The majority of those freed are usually rearrested by Israeli forces in the days, weeks, months and years after their release.

Dozens of those who were arrested in a 2011 Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange were rearrested and had their sentences reinstated.

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Many of the women and children released during the truce have testified to the abuse they experienced in Israeli prisons.

Several videos have also emerged in recent weeks of Israeli soldiers beating, stepping on, abusing and humiliating detained Palestinians who have been blindfolded, cuffed and stripped either partially or entirely. Many social media users said the scenes brought back memories of the torture tactics used by United States forces in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

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[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 26 points 7 months ago

The people arrested will have been charged, right?

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 67 points 7 months ago

Thousands are under "administrative detention" which is imprisoned without charge.

[-] BrownKong@lemm.ee 51 points 7 months ago

That just sounds like hostages with extra steps.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh it’s okay, these people aren’t from Gaza. So they’re not related to the conflict going on.

This is just what day-to-day life for Palestinians is like under Israeli occupation. This stuff has been happening for decades.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

No, no, no.

Just like there can't be such a thing as State Terrorism "because it's legal so can't be terrorism", there can't be State Hostage-taking "because it's legal"!

/s

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

The term I've heard for this the establishment equivalent of a terrorist: a "horrorist" (best link I could find here (2007) about Israel/Palestine conflict, America's "War on Terror," etc).

Basically what they do is legal, and according to plan, and somehow more respectable and orderly than what the terrorists do, but still the outcome is human suffering, often on a much grander scale than what any terrorist could hope for. For instance the accidental bombing of a school (oops!), or in the use of white phosphorous (which turns the divine human into a lump of abject suffering).

"Horrorists" can make you quake with fear, but unlike the terrorist, they have the legitimacy of a democratic state, and powerful allies to back their actions.

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[-] doingless@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Just learning from the US.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 39 points 7 months ago

What that other person said, but also being charged under Israeli law doesn't prove much about a Palestinian's innocence or guiltiness. The word Apartheid is an understatement of what's going on in Palestine.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Being charged never says anything about anyone's guilt or innocence, anywhere.

[-] Globeparasite@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

yes mainly because they aren't recognized as citizen of Israel

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