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In the West Bank, Palestinians don't have to break laws to get arrested (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 22 hours ago by Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone to c/world@quokk.au

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Hadeel Hijaz, a 33-year-old activist, was arrested last June on her way home to the West Bank from Malaysia and has been held in an Israeli prison ever since, with no charges and no answers.

She was one of the many Palestinian prisoners held under what is known as "administrative detention" where people are arrested on the grounds they plan to break the law in the future.

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[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 22 hours ago

the average american would have a full on existential breakdown facing ten minutes of what Palestinians go through within their own borders.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 21 hours ago

I mean I come from one of the worst non-foreign occupied police states in the world and I'd have a full on existential breakdown facing ten minutes of what Palestinians go through within their own borders.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 22 hours ago

Yet on the face of it, many Americans support this since it is effecting Palestinians.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Well they're about to experience it within the next year right? I mean I don't hope it happens but Americans don't really have a chance but to experience what we did to every other country (Iraq, Vietnam, Etc.) Its just time corporations realize they can really occupy the US