Over the first four days of Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange, Israel arrests 133 Palestinians while releasing 150.

But the worry for Palestinian prisoners does not end after their release. The majority of those freed are usually rearrested by Israeli forces in the days, weeks, months and years after their release.

Dozens of those who were arrested in a 2011 Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange were rearrested and had their sentences reinstated.

Many of the women and children released during the truce have testified to the abuse they experienced in Israeli prisons.

Several videos have also emerged in recent weeks of Israeli soldiers beating, stepping on, abusing and humiliating detained Palestinians who have been blindfolded, cuffed and stripped either partially or entirely. Many social media users said the scenes brought back memories of the torture tactics used by United States forces in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

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      What that other person said, but also being charged under Israeli law doesn’t prove much about a Palestinian’s innocence or guiltiness. The word Apartheid is an understatement of what’s going on in Palestine.

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        Being charged never says anything about anyone’s guilt or innocence, anywhere.

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            when you are not a french citizen, you indeed have less right in France than a french. The problem is the definition of Israel’s border is really blurry

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              You’re not listening, Israel also classifies people based on religion and again there are nationalistically Palestinians in Israel. They’re forced to have citizenship but that doesn’t mean they identify as isreali.

              It’s not at all blurry, they’ve been defined by multiple nations and the UN itself.

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              …because the Zionist Jew-Nazis of Israel have absolutely zero respect for any defined borders. They’ve defied the ones set up in 1938, 1947, and again in the 60s when the UN stepped in again. You can look at the progression maps over time, that 100% is the Jew-Nazis violating repeatedly the treaties set.

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            No they don’t. Israeli Arabs are full citizens.

            Palestinians aren’t Israeli, which is the core of why this argument devalues the concept of apartheid.

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              No one said they weren’t, I said they have fewer rights because it’s an ethnostate.

              There are Palestinian isrealis dumb dumb, as I’ve said before do research before you comment.

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                … So palestine doesn’t exist/shouldn’t exist as a free state. No Israel is not an ethnostate because Israeli isn’t an ethnicity but a nationality made from ethnicity of all over the world including arabs. Palestinian is also a nationality.

                You see an ethnostate generally don’t have more than four current language in use

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                It’s literally not an ethnostate if there are people of different cultures and ethnicities with full citizenship.

                There are Israelis of Palestinian origin. However, policies against the different nation of Palestine aren’t apartheid. They’re often bad policies, but apartheid doesn’t mean “dumb shit policy.”

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                  It is if they have fewer rights by law, that’s called apartied and makes it an ethnostate.

                  Apartheid refers to the implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights. Apartheid is a crime against humanity punishable under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

                  a state that is dominated by members of a single ethnic group

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                    Just delete all the parts about how minoritarian rule is central to apartheid, as is denying representation, as well as racial segregation

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                  Full citizens with less rights. That’s like saying Jim Crow America was fine because African Americans were full citizens.

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                    No it isn’t. At most, it’s like saying Jim Crow America wasn’t apartheid. It wasn’t. It was just shitty. For one thing, apartheid is explicitly minoritarian.

                    What “fewer rights” do they have? How is the power structured?

                    See the reason I ask is that Arab Israelis have almost exactly proportional representation in Israel’s government, which is not how apartheid works at all.

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              You’re being pedantic. They are second class citizens of the State of Israel. They are rounded up and put into open -air prisons, and they do not enjoy the same rights as Ashkenazi Israelis. Israel is an apartheid state.

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                They are rounded up and put into open -air prisons

                This is not accurate.

                Gaza is not an “open air prison.” That is figurative language, to describe the awful conditions in Gaza.

                It is not a literal prison. No Israeli citizen is “rounded up and sent to Gaza.”

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          In my experience most people who say it’s not an apartheid haven’t really studied the history of Apartheid South Africa.

          There are many features that resemble it, such as the tiered rights system, shifting people into designated areas with a system of checkpoints and barriers, creating resource scarcity, etc.

          Even the rhetoric about God giving the land to the ruling ethnic group (who in both cases had ancestors subjected to concentration camps) is a similar narrative.

          It’s no coincidence that present-day South Africa has been one of the loudest voices calling for UN intervention in Gaza.

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          Do not downplay the term apartheid or genocide like this. Israel is an illegal apartheid state. And they are committing a genocide. Denying this really raises eyebrows you see.

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            Israel is an illegal apartheid state. And they are committing a genocide.

            Lol both of these are wrong though.

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              Here you are, lying on the internet again - I can’t say I’m surprised at your lack of integrity - you’re a fucking genocide denier.

              The UN disagrees with you on both points.

              • Palestinian casualties in the “conflict” are pretty squarely in-line with the broader Palestinian population, making it pretty indisputable the IDF is indiscriminately killing Palestinians, not targeting Hamas.
              • The Netanyahu administration has been spouting all sorts of genocidal rhetoric.
              • The Netanyahu administration actively propped up Hamas over moderate orgs. Seems like someone needed a pretext for the thing they’ve been trying to do for decades.
              • The Netanyahu administration has indiscriminately halted the movement of Palestinians, and cut water, power, food, trade and aid. Some of these have been restored thanks to international pressure - open war crimes and whatnot.
              • The UN has characterised the Netanyahu administration’so management of Palestine as an open air concentration camp.
              • The IDF has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians - a major share of those deaths were children.
              • The IDF lies relentlessly - tunnels built under the Al-Shifa hospital by the Israeli government? No - that was Hamas… But Hamas beheaded all those babies - trust us, bro - we’ve got the evidence, but can’t share it or have it verified. Then there’s the Arabic calendar nonsense, the “hospital” curtain bullshit, the list goes on.
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                Some of these have been restored thanks to international pressure

                well that’s impossible as every country except the free republic of Iran are turbo zionist^and that’s why shooting their citizens is justified

                he IDF is indiscriminately killing Palestinians, not targeting Hamas.

                Can I call that an “act of resistance” ? Yeah no would be pretty fucked u

                But Hamas beheaded all those babies

                the tabloid who made up that claim is now making its main title about how israel is genociding gazans.

                tunnels built under the Al-Shifa hospital by the Israeli government?

                If you really were not feasting on Tsahal propaganda you would realise their first lie was “we can absolutely enter gaza and destroy the HAMAS” so except if they lost two brigades before october I can’t really see how they could have built the tunnels

                but can’t share it

                they hamas did share the videos, the strafing cars, the gunned festival goers… the rape. Then Tsahal shared the pictures : the bullet ridden cars, charred corpses

                But don’t worry, you’re right,the War of Liberation is glorious, the war is just, the war is fair, the war is just, the war is beautiful

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                  every country except the free republic of Iran are turbo zionist^and that’s why shooting their citizens is justified

                  Strong opener there.

                  Can I call that (the IDF indiscriminately killing Palestinians) an “act of resistance” ?

                  You could call a nuclear power occupying a territory, and operating it as an open air concentration camp, restricting water, power, movement, food, and trade, killing the people there an act of resistance, but you’d look pretty silly.

                  the tabloid who made up that (beheading babies) claim

                  The IDF isn’t a tabloid that’s publishing headlines about their genocide.

                  I can’t really see how they could have built the tunnels

                  I won’t bother with the evidence - I’ll just point out that you’re defending bombing a hospital… To achieve what?

                  they hamas did share the videos

                  Of the babies the IDF lied that Hamas killed? No.

                  If you weren’t desperate to defend a genocide, you wouldn’t have to say such stupid shit.

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                    The IDF isn’t a tabloid that’s publishing headlines about their genocide. You don’t know who even called out the falsety of that claim first

                    No. Yes reality does not exist . So I guess the videos they took of themselves raiding those kibbutz or machinegunning cars does not exist

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                Lol the real countries of the UN agree with me. The extremely united and extremely politically manipulative Muslim bloc doesn’t. Who cares what totalitarian hellstates think lol.

                I skipped the rest of your message because you were wrong in the first sentence.

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                  Ah yes - the Muslims don’t count… Nor does the definition of the word genocide, or the US strategic interests in propping up Israel…

                  Got any more of those feels for me? You’re a less effective liar than most backing this genocide, so there’s probably benefit to you parading your dopey bullshit around for all to see.

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                    The US strategic interest actually aren’t in propping up Israel, Technically they are in propping up Lebanon. Their interest is forbidding the current administration of Palestine to have anymore power

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                    Lmao it’s less that they don’t count and more that they hate Jews.

                    You ever gonna realize you’ll never upset me?

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                  Isn’t it funny that those opposed to the UN are usually also trying to sweep a massacre or two under the rug?

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              If Israel doesn’t want to be called an apartheid state it should stop its apartheid.

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          You think you’re defending Israel but you’re actually doing a much worse service to it. If Israel is guilty of apartheid, which I think it is, it has a clear path to redemption. If however the Israeli crimes are sui generis, then we end up with a whole new class of crime against humanity called “the crime Israel is doing to the Palestinians”, for which the international order has no precedent for how to redeem. And that’s a huge danger for Israel because it opens up the space of possible reactions, much much more widely than apartheid.

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            The crime Israel is doing to Palestinians (I’ve seen Nakba suggested as a name, so I’ll use it for brevity) extends beyond Apartheid. The Nakba’s intent is to take apart Palestinians’ ability to exist as a political collective by dividing them and implementing varying levels of Apartheid and violence against them, up to and including genocide. This goes beyond South African Apartheid, whose goal was for black people to serve white people. The Nakba is meant to destroy Palestinians as an entity capable of having political will. This is why they’re currently divided into Israeli citizens, East Jerusalemites, Gazans and West Bankers, with the goal of eventually ethnically cleansing the latter two (along with East Jerusalemites on a larger timescale).

            The Nakba includes Apartheid as one of its components, but it’s not Apartheid.

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            I just imagine a world where Arabs didn’t try to kill jews moving to the region in the lead up to WWII. I wonder if that would have changed anything in terms of now.

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              I just imagine a world where the Jews who immigrated to Palestine didn’t force my family out at gunpoint and under the threat of massacre (Deir Yaseen) in 1947/8, that eventually led to their ethnic cleansing.

              But we can all dream.

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                They also bombed the embassy in mandatory Palestine and were subsequently found hiding weapons and fighters in schools, hospitals and synagogues.

                We can draw comparisons but the more you look the more they look the same.

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                  You forget that Palestinians also have the right to defence, to self determination.

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                Imagine a world were Nazism didn’t spread like wildfire in Palestine in the 1930’s and NS movement didn’t commit porgroms like on Lake Tiberias. Welcome in a century long war started by supremacist, i assure its super fun. My country is btw a massive arms dealer do you want some so we don’t miss out on the funnies

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                  Yeah, antisemetism is wrong, but so is Israel and apartheid. Israel is the one holding all the cards and killing the vast majortiy of babies, since this is the currency people care about now.

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                    holding all the cards Tsahal agree with that statement, they absolutely hold all the cards and could totally enter day 1 into gaza without abhorrent losses because they are super turbo skilled with their 40 year old gear

                    If this is a 100 card decks the knesset holds like 3. They have 0 actual option but they don’t want to admit it so they cover their asses by littering gaz with high explosives

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          So the thing is: While the treatment of Palestinians in Israel proper does also constitute an Apartheid according to several organizations, I’m talking about the West Bank and Gaza here. Israel simply split Palestinians into different groups and subjects them to different levels of Apartheid. Palestinian Israelis are simply the people who were allowed oh so graciously by Israel to get the least bad level.

          Also, your use of “mistreatment” is a massive understatement. Many people in high government positions in Israel want to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

          See: https://thewire.in/world/israeli-government-population-transfer-gaza-strip

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          Do not downplay what Israel does by pretending it’s better than South African Apartheid.

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          Yeah, to use the term apartheid is not accurate to explain the atrocity. Don’t overplay ‘apartheid’, it’s not the accurate term. We need a stronger term here; could be zionistheid or Israelitheid.

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              yeah. but the term haven’t got much traction outside of the Arabic-speaking populations.

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                it also, if I recall well specifically refer to an historical event aka the 1948 expulsion and often subsequent slaughters

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                  Yeah. That’s what I got to know and realize how ignorant I’ve been, learning tha the atrocity was a well executed plan, formulated since more than125 years ago, and the Arabs never knew what was coming.

                  Anyway thanks to the British, the unsung culprit who taught and set the examples for the Israeli in their coming genocide. I used to think how cruel it is for the Israeli to demolish entire houses of any Palestian suspects or those they found to be guilty. Then. I learned that during the 1936-39 Arab Palestinian revolt, the British would demolish any Arabs’ houseswhere they could find even just one bullet, rendering them to be insurgents. The British severe campaign shut the revolt to the core and left the Arabs incapable of defending themselves in 1948. And the Arabs have suffered time and time again until now. Again, thank to the British.

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                Not really. Ethnic cleansing (or in less flattering terms genocide) is the ultimate goal of the Nakba, but the current state of Palestinians can’t really be summed up as ethnic cleansing. Basically the Nakba isn’t just what happened in 1949, but also the state Israel forces the Palestinian people to exist in to this day.