Mahmoud Abu Foul returned to Gaza after spending more than nine months in Israeli detention. But when he was back on home soil, amid hundreds of people who had gathered to greet the released detainees, he could not even look around to find his family because he lost his eyesight while imprisoned.

The 28-year-old Palestinian, who lost his left leg in a 2015 Israeli airstrike, said he was subjected to repeated beatings and torture at a notorious Israeli military prison that left him blind.

“I walked out of prison, wishing and dreaming that I could see even with just one eye,” Abu Foul said, speaking to a CBC News freelance videographer from a tent in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, where he now lives with his mother.

Abu Foul was detained by the Israel Defence Forces

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