Muazzaz Abayat’s parents barely recognised their son lying in a hospital bed after being freed from nine months in Israeli detention, with his weight halved from his usual heavyset build, hollowed cheeks and shaggy hair. “I came back from the dead,” the 37-year-old Palestinian, told AFP at a hospital in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Abayat, a butcher by trade, was arrested without explanation on October 26, just over two weeks after the Hamas attack on southern Israel which began the current war on Gaza. He was held at a prison in the Naqab (Negev) desert, officially under so-called adm…