Israel keeps Palestinian prisoners incommunicado

Israel keeps some (or all?) Palestinian prisoners incommunicado for months (or years). Alaa abu Zeid was not informed until he was released, after over a year, that a bomb dropped on a school had killed his wife and children.

If abu Zeid had had even occasional contact with anyone from home, he would have found out what had happened to them. We can deduce he had none.

Other Palestinian prisoners report similar experiences. Clearly this is a systematic practice.

West Bank prisoners also are physically tortured and injured, and mentally damaged by brain-washing conditions.

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