Mahmoud Sarsak was arrested as he was leaving Gaza to join the national football team . He spent 3 years in an Israeli prison without charge, tortured in order to extract a confession, and was only released after he went on a hunger strike which created uproar throughout the world.
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/mahmoud-sarsak-was-a-great-football-player-until-israel-locked-him-up-for-three-years
This is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited. The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.
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