Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight

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1. The tunnelees have become the tunnelers, in a shocking(?) twist to an already complex topic. They should connect the tunnels systems and name it MLK Jr. Blvd.

2. This is a massive human rights abuse.

   >Saja Misherqi Baransi, the second PCATI lawyer on the trip, said the two detainees had been in Rakefet for nine months, and the nurse began the meeting by asking: “Where am I and why am I here?” The guards had not told him the name of the prison.

   >Israeli judges who authorised the detention of the men at very brief video hearings, during which the detainees had no lawyer and did not hear evidence against them, said only that they would be there “until the war ends”.

   >The men described windowless cells with no ventilation, holding three or four detainees, and reported often feeling breathless and choking.

   >Prisoners told the lawyers they faced regular physical abuse including beatings, assaults by dogs with iron muzzles, and guards stepping on prisoners, in addition to being denied adequate medical care and given starvation-level rations. Israel’s high court ruled this month that the state was depriving Palestinian prisoners of adequate food.

   >They have very limited time outside the cell in a tiny underground enclosure, sometimes just five minutes every other day. Mattresses are taken away early in the morning, usually at about 4am, and only returned late at night, leaving detainees on iron frames in otherwise empty cells.

   >Their descriptions matched images from a televised visit to the prison made by Ben-Gvir

3. Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

   >The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men.

   if there is a truly evil place on earth where evil thrives in every corner , it is the so called state of ‘Israel’ which needs to be dismantled .

4. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” – Nelson Mandela

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