In the West Bank, the media describes relative ‘calm’. Our reality couldn’t be more different. – Mondoweiss

A few years ago, I witnessed a human rights organization’s interview with a released Palestinian prisoner. He was a 16-year-old teenager who had spent four months in Israeli detention, and when the human rights lawyer asked him if he had been tortured, he shrugged and said that he hadn’t.

Then the lawyer asked him how he was treated. He said that he was deprived of sleep and kept in the cold on his first night of detention; he was handcuffed to the chair during interrogation…