When Israel re-arrested Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, the detainees faced familiar treatment.

They were blindfolded, handcuffed, insulted and kept in inhumane conditions. More unusual was that each man had a number written on his forehead.

Osama Shaheen, who was released in August after 10 months of administrative detention, told Middle East Eye that soldiers brutally stormed his house, smashing his furniture.

“The soldiers turned us from names into numbers, and every detainee had a number that they used to provoke him during his arrest and call him by number instead of name. To them, we are just numbers.”

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    Brand

    1): a mark made by burning with a hot iron to attest manufacture or quality or to designate ownership

    (2): a printed mark made for similar purposes :

    It mentions a printed mark. Read a dictionary next time you are board bored and want to defend the IDF.

    Edit: God I hate modern autocorrect and IDF bought people being wrong while pedantic

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        Yeah that one is a bit funny. Autocorrect can be a bitch. Doesn’t explain you demanding a different word because it has a definition you don’t like and ignoring it.