Israel releases journalist shot in the eye
Ramallah (Quds News Network)- Israeli authorities released journalist Muath Amarneh on Tuesday after he was shot in the eye then administratively detained for nine months without charges.
According to family sources, Muath was released in poor health and was taken to the hospital for medical examinations. He requested not to be hugged and was taken for medical tests because he suspects he has several illnesses, including skin diseases, due to the conditions of his detention in Israeli prisons.
In a previous statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that Amarneh, 36, from Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, was facing difficult health conditions in Israel’s Megiddo prison due to systematic retaliatory measures and torture imposed by the Israeli authorities on abductees, which had intensified unprecedentedly since October 7.
The statement added that Israeli authorities refused to allow the entry of Amarneh’s glass eye and glasses after he lost one of his eyes in 2019 when the Israeli army shot him in the eye while he was covering confrontations in occupied Hebron.
The statement added that “Amarneh suffers from chronic diabetes, which has worsened under the prison administration’s policy of starvation against the prisoners. He also suffers from severe pain and headaches due to the intense cold.”
Since October 7, Israel, with full American support, has waged an offensie on Gaza, resulting in more than 126,000 casualties, mostly children and women, and over 10,000 missing persons, in addition to thousands of abductions.
In the same period, Israel carried out a large brutal campaign against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, kidnapping 9,580 of them.
