Video: friends of Australian kidnapped by Israel describe extreme violence and torture

Surya McEwen is an Australian volunteer among the almost five hundred humanitarians kidnapped by Israel as they tried to break Israel’s criminal starvation blockade on Gaza with baby food and other essentials. While the world’s attention has been on Israel’s violence and ritual humiliation toward Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, McEwen and Muslim volunteers were treated even more viciously.

In a video update, friends of McEwan, who is locked up in Israel’s notorious Ketziot prison’s friends have reported that during his abduction and illegal detention:

• Israeli soldiers tore up McEwen’s passport in front of him while on his vessel
• soldiers beat him on his arrival at the port of Ashdod – so badly that his arm was dislocated and his head slammed into the ground
• McEwen is being held in isolation away from other prisoners
• His captors are subjecting him to “degrading and humiliating treatment” and using sleep-deprivation techniques on him for days at a time
• his abductors are continuing to beat and intimidate him and are depriving him of drinkable water

Similar violence and both psychological and physical torture are being inflicted on Muslim volunteers abducted in the terror state’s attack on the flotilla.

Featured image via YouTube screenshot/ABC News (Australia)