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When Israel re-arrested Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, the detainees faced familiar treatment.

They were blindfolded, handcuffed, insulted and kept in inhumane conditions. More unusual was that each man had a number written on his forehead.

Osama Shaheen, who was released in August after 10 months of administrative detention, told Middle East Eye that soldiers brutally stormed his house, smashing his furniture.

"The soldiers turned us from names into numbers, and every detainee had a number that they used to provoke him during his arrest and call him by number instead of name. To them, we are just numbers."

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 209 points 9 months ago

You would think Israel, of all countries, ought to know how blatantly evil this kind of stuff looks.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 111 points 9 months ago

They do, they just don't care.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago

They do, and that’s the point.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

They don’t care. No one is preventing them from becoming Nazis themselves.

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