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Video footage and photos of a wide-eyed and trembling Palestinian man who appears to be in shock have horrified activists and raised the alarm over the treatment of detainees held in Israeli prisons. The man has been identified by local Palestinian media as Badr Dahlan, a 29-year-old who was detained by Israeli forces in Gaza and held for a month. In a video which has since gone viral online, Dahlan struggles to speak coherently and describes being beaten, tortured and blindfolded while being incarcerated. Dahlan says he was taken from the Khan Younis area, calling conditions in the Israeli pr…