I joined a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. After Israeli forces seized our ship, I spent five days inside al-Naqab prison, witnessing the cruelty of Israel’s detention regime.

Progressive International co–general coordinator David Adler has been released from Israeli detention. In this exclusive account, he describes the Global Sumud Flotilla’s violent interception by Israeli occupation forces and recounts how its participants were subjected to abuses in detention, including beatings; solitary confinement; the denial of food, water, and medicine; and psychological abuse. Although the ordeal pales in comparison to the systematic brutality faced by thousands of Palestinian hostages every day, it offers a glimpse into the institutionalized impunity with which the Israeli regime operates.

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