Palestinians burn ‘humiliating’ shirts after release from Israeli prisons
Al Jazeera
Freed Palestinians burn ‘racist’ shirts forced onto them by Israel in exchange for captives after tense negotiations.
Israel’s move to force the released Palestinians to wear shirts with a Star of David logo and “we will not forget or forgive” written in Arabic has prompted anger and been slammed as a “racist crime”.
On Saturday, 369 Palestinians were released in exchange for three captives in Gaza following days of tense negotiations.
Before the exchange, the Israel Prison Service released photos of a few of the Palestinians dressed in those provocative shirts. As the Palestinians were being returned, a number of them wore their shirts inside out in order to cover the messages.
Footage shot in Gaza by Al Jazeera showed a few Palestinians setting fire to the shirts upon their arrival at the European Gaza Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
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