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    5 months ago

    "Ashraf al-Muhtaseb is a musician who described leaving Israel’s jails with no hearing in his left ear, four fractured ribs and a broken hand, so ill and weak from hunger he could no longer walk.

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    In those six months, the 53-year-old said, he passed through three Israeli prisons, enduring a marathon of torture, abuse and humiliation detailed in an interview, backed up by medical records and photos that show the impact of multiple beatings and of losing 30kg (66lbs) of body weight.

    He said his hearing was destroyed during an attack in his cell in Ketziot prison in November. “I was beaten and kicked in my back, my chest and my head. I had one side of my head against the wall and was getting blows on the other,” he told the Guardian. “The next day I couldn’t hear.”

    Israeli wardens make Gestapo look like schoolchildren.