“Welcome to hell”: inside Israel’s prisons
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:02.0 | Today, former Palestinian prisoners speak out on life and death inside Israeli prisons. On Britain streets, you unknowingly see extraordinary heroes who look just like me. |
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| 1:20.0 | Before we begin, a heads up, this episode contains references to sexual assault and the abuse of prisoners. The voice you're hearing belongs to a Palestinian man named Aetif Rawada. He's 54 years old. He's as Hamas was attacking Southern Israel, |
| 1:33.2 | Atif was in an Israeli prison, in a cell for sick patients. |
| 1:37.6 | Were you in an offer on October 7th? |
| 1:39.8 | The summer October control. |
| 1:43.2 | And how did things change before another day? |
| 1:47.6 | I cannot give a sub-October. |
| 1:50.8 | He's telling Emma how the very next day conditions in the prison dramatically changed. |
| 1:57.0 | You know, life changed 180 degrees after the 7 of a war. |
| 2:05.0 | How Israeli guards stripped the prisoners of soap, extra clothes, of the covers of their mattresses. And he says, |
| 2:13.0 | I can't call the call, |
| 2:15.0 | all the rights as the prisoners were taking away from. |
| 2:18.0 | And he says, that's when the beatings started. |
| 2:25.6 | Israel's war on Gaza which has killed nearly 40,000 people, has been dominating the news for nearly a year. |
| 2:36.2 | But all along there's been another campaign playing out behind the walls of Israel's |
| 2:41.1 | prisons. |
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