JERUSALEM: Denied contact with his lawyer for months, now freed Palestinian prisoner Shady Abu Sedo said he lost all sense of time while he was held in Israeli jails during the war in Gaza.
The 35-year-old resident of the Palestinian territory was arrested in March 2024, five months into the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Abu Sedo, a photojournalist, said he was arrested while working at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and detained at Sde Teiman prison, a military facility in Israel used to hold Gazans during the war.
At the time of his arrest the Al-Shifa complex was at the center of the war, with humanitarian organizations accusing Israel of rights violations while Israel accused Hamas of using it and other civilian facilities as command centers.
Abu Sedo was held under Israel’s “unlawful combatants” law, which permits the detention of suspected members of “hostile forces” for months on end without charge.
