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 5 months ago (3 children)

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 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Well, not if they are the chosen people

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Israel must free the hostages.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I hope they do. The suffering is so inhumane and misguided