Mohamed Omer is a young Palestinian journalist who was recently awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for his reporting. He says that on his way back to Gaza via the Allenby Bridge, which connects the West Bank with Jordan, he was detained and brutally treated by Israeli security officials. The Israelis don’t deny detaining him, but they do contest his account of what happened.

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