Protesters demonstrate in Berlin during a rally in solidarity with Gaza and the pro Palestinian global Sumud Flotilla. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA
Some Irish citizens who were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza have told lawyers representing them how they suffered “aggressive treatment and violence” in Israeli custody, including being kicked when trying to sleep, and are now being kept in a notorious desert prison.
Lawyers from Adalah, a legal centre that defends Palestinians in Israel, have met and represented 10 out of the 16 detained Irish citizens since they were taken from their boats and brought to Israel.
They are now in Ktzi’ot Prison, a vast detention facility usually used for Palestinians, in the Negev desert, though it is unclear whether they are within the main jail or a separate part used
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