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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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[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Isreal really showing everyone they are the children of the light.

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[–] Surreal@programming.dev 31 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Israel: arrest

Palestine: kidnap

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[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Im not defending the Israeli practice here, it's ridiculous and likely to make matters worse.

I can see how they would use different wording for a legal authority taking into custody specific people under their own jurisdiction, even if it's on shaky legal grounds, and people storming over the border, snatching people randomly off the street while randomly murdering others.

Again, this is not a defense of the Israeli practice, as even the article seems critical of it, but I could not justify calling these very disparate things by the same word.

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[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

When the primary medium of negotiation is of prisoner exchanges, I suppose you can expect humans to become currency.

[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The people arrested will have been charged, right?

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] BrownKong@lemm.ee 51 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That just sounds like hostages with extra steps.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago (8 children)

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"!

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago (107 children)

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 11 months ago

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

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (36 children)

Isreal is the terrorist of the human race.

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just purging those of a different rac/ethnicity. Nothing to see here said the Germans, I mean Israelites.

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