🚨🚨WARNING: I am going to show you what Israel did to the Palestinians they kidnapped. This should be ALL OVER THE MAINSTREAM NEWS. If the roles were reversed it would be.
It's completely and utterly despicable. And you and I both know that if ANY OF THIS happened to Israelis we'd never hear the end of it.
Family — this article is going to be one of the hardest things I’ve ever shown you.
But the world has looked away long enough. These are not rumors. Not propaganda.
These are the faces and bodies of Palestinians kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, and returned by Israel — many dead, some barely alive.
The New York Times won’t show you this. CNN won’t. But we will.
Because truth should never be hidden behind politics.
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THE HUMAN FACES OF TORTURE
Start with one man: Mahmoud Abu Foul.
That’s Mahmoud, in the video above.
He was abducted from Kamal Adwan Hospital in 2024 — a civilian hospital — and held hostage for nearly a year.
When he was finally freed, Mahmoud had been beaten blind for the past 8 months.
“I lost my eyesight after being beaten on the head,” he told Middle East Eye.
Photos and videos show his once-strong face now hollowed by agony.
He wasn’t released — he was discarded.
And Mahmoud is not alone.
Another freed Palestinian prisoner described how Israeli soldiers broke his hand five times. Each time it began to heal, they shattered it again — just to make sure it stayed deformed.
He said they used metal rods, belts, and blunt objects to target the same wounds, over and over.
THE DEAD RETURNED
Over the past week, Israel returned 45 Palestinian bodies to Gaza.
Doctors and journalists describe what they saw as unimaginable.
“Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes,”
— Julian Borger, The Guardian (Oct 15, 2025)
Let me pause there. Let me say it again….
“Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes,”
— Julian Borger, The Guardian (Oct 15, 2025)
At Nasser Hospital, doctors said every single body arrived handcuffed, blindfolded, and marked with numbers instead of names.
Some had been run over by tanks. Others were shot execution-style.
BreakThrough News confirmed it:
“Some bodies show signs of torture and summary execution, while others have been run over with tanks.”
Palestinian journalist Muhammad Shehada shared a horrific image of one victim —
his hands tied behind his back, a rope still around his neck, his face crushed.
Shehada wrote that Israel had “kept his dead body as a bargaining chip” before finally returning it to Gaza this week.
Another journalist, Motasem A Dalloul, confirmed the same body —
pointing to the rope burns, tied hands, blindfolded eyes, and the unmistakable marks of strangulation.
“Look carefully,” Dalloul wrote. “He was tortured to death inside Israeli torture camps.”
ISRAEL’S OWN TESTIMONY
Lest anyone try to call this “fog of war,” listen to Israel’s own soldiers.
In sworn testimony before the Knesset, IDF soldier Guy Zaken admitted that he and others were ordered to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”
He said he no longer eats meat because of what he saw.
“When you see a lot of human meat outside, and blood… it really affects you when you eat,” he told CNN.
That’s not resistance. That’s dehumanization.
THE SILENCE OF WESTERN MEDIA
Independent journalist Max Blumenthal reported that Palestinians are emerging from Israel’s torture dungeons with missing limbs, gouged eyes, and stories of sexual assault at the hands of their captors.
He noted that even Greta Thunberg — kidnapped in international waters — described sexual humiliation and beatings, and that American journalist Noa Avishag Schnall emerged from Israeli detention with bruises across her face, saying she was hung from the ceiling by metal shackles.
And yet, as Blumenthal wrote,
“These accounts will not be featured on the front page of The New York Times... and everyone knows why.”
Assal Rad said it plainly:
“This story is getting barely any media coverage. Israel didn’t even bother to cover it up because they knew they didn’t have to.”
That’s the privilege of impunity — when a nation knows it can commit atrocities in broad daylight and still be protected by Washington, London, and Brussels.
They don’t have to cover it up because the mainstream media DOES IT FOR THEM.
THE PARALYZED SURVIVORS
One video shows a man being carried through a crowd in Gaza — limp, paralyzed, unable to hold his head up.
People thought it was just another hostage release.
But it wasn’t.
“They have no idea they’re looking at survivors of Israeli torture camps.”
This man, like so many others, can’t even speak anymore.
He is breathing proof of what the world has ignored for too long.
Imagine if ONE ISRAELI HOSTAGE was returned this way.
THE MORAL RECKONING
This is not a war.
This is state-sanctioned extermination — an industrial system of abduction, mutilation, and psychological terror.
And the bitter truth?
It’s done with American weapons.
With American dollars.
With American silence.
We paid for the ropes.
We paid for the blindfolds.
We paid for the tanks that ran over the bodies.
We even designed and manufactured them.
This is evil.
This is genocide.
This is our complicity.
And we will not look away.
Please — if you believe in this work, stand with us.
We show these images not for shock, but for truth.
So that one day, history cannot say we didn’t know.
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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
I am sorry you have to see these things, but the mainstream media in the United States and Europe is DELIBERATELY not covering any of this.
I have been visually impaired for fifty-five of my sixty-one years. For the first time, confronted with this report, I am profoundly grateful for my poor eyesight. Reading about these horrors is enough for me.
Now, what are we going to do about it? Restack? Sure. Share to all our socials? Of course. So what? How does that bring justice and accountability?
I propose that every subscriber to The North Star post a link to today's newsletter to CNN, wherever we can find them, be that FB, Twitter, wherever.
Also, send the link in an e-mail to our sens and reps.
*shrug* It's not much, but it's something each and every one of us can do.