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Legal organization Adalah, which represents most of the activists, released a statement Sunday citing testimonies that described 'hands tied for hours, forced sitting or kneeling under the sun, exposure to kicking, beatings, and verbal abuse with racist overtones'

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Many of the Gaza flotilla activists who were arrested testified that they were denied water, while others said they suffered verbal abuse and physical violence from security and police officers, a Haaretz investigation into court transcripts has found.