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Israel brands Palestinian detainees with numbers on their foreheads (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 month ago by IndustryStandard to c/aboringdystopia

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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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[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] M137 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you not seen anything they've done previous to this? It's all completely conscious, they absolutely mean to treat Palestinians like the Nazis did Jews etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I have, that's why I said this kind of stuff to instead of this in particular, I was referring to all of it pretty much

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