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A U.N. human rights official accused Israel on Friday of mistreating Palestinian detainees in Gaza, saying he had met men who had described being held for weeks, beaten and blindfolded, with some released in diapers. Ajith Sunghay, a U.N. human rights official in Gaza, told reporters it was not clear exactly how many men had been detained by Israel since it began its war on Gaza, but he said the number ran into the thousands. “These are men who were detained by the Israeli security forces in unknown locations for between 30 to 55 days,” Sunghay told reporters in Geneva by video link from Gaza….

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