With bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, Hamdan Ballal was released from an Israeli police station in Kiryat Arba, the West Bank settlement, today. He and two other Palestinians were attacked and detained yesterday and then taken to a nearby hospital.
“I was blindfolded for 24 hours", Ballal said. “All the night I was freezing. It was a room, I couldn’t see anything... I heard the voice of soldiers laughing about me.”