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

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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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[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Auschwitz_survivor_displays_tattoo_detail.jpg

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago

How disappointed the generation before them would be, having survived that same treatment only to become the monsters that they struggled to escape.

[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Israel wasn't founded by holocaust survivors and treated them less than equal.

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[-] nobleshift@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I cannot find a confirming alternative source. If you have one or more please reply. Thank you.

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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago

I wonder why this seems to be the only news org posting this. It seems we know there are camps in the West Bank where people are being detained, and we know the conditions are brutal, but the numbers on the forehead is a very specific extra detail that I can't seem to find any other sources on numbers being written on foreheads. Did MEE just get the exclusive scoop or what?

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[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago

Numbers are so 1940's, I thought they might have moved to QR codes by now.

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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

History repeats itself

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

You can't make this shit up

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago

Every prisoner should have the right to be branded with their very own personalized NFT.

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