Surya McEwen

Yeah, and you're supposed to be able to see our lawyers in that place, but almost no one got to see our lawyers.

And then it takes a really long time and everyone's kind of like dealing with their injuries, just trying to breathe through the pain at that point.

um but then your clothes are taken from you and your shoes are taken and we were all like it's like shackled shackled behind our backs in cuffs and then also like by the legs and there's like a um a metal chain that goes from your hands down to your legs so you can't really move and they're like pushing you you fall over a lot a broken rib and stuff so it was like hard to fall over and then get back up again and

they know that so they're kind of like tripping you or doing things to make it hurt more and then eventually you get taken through the processing center and put on like these metal prison buses and you're packed into these prison buses either with a group of about 20 people crammed into a room or some people are put into isolation in this really uncomfortable place

um and then it takes a few hours to go on this bus which they're constantly um people who have been in paddy wagons with um police who are trying to with them here there's this thing of like being in paddy wagon and then they like drive really fast and then break so you like smash your head against the thing or whatever they do that a lot and because you're already like detained in this awkward position it's really hard to kind of break the fall

Um, but yeah, then we got, then we arrived at Kitsiot prison and looking back, they clearly weren't intending to hold us a long time.

Um, because last time, last time we were put into like a cage, the men were put into this cage of like a hundred men, like crammed in and Ben Gavir came and did his whole like taunting thing and stuff.

But then we were processed and actually put into prison like this time.

um it was like i think we spent about like a full day there or a day and a half but it was like the whole time it was it was being in stress positions being held either like in a cage um surrounded by like razor wire everywhere so you can't like press up against the edges without being hurt but everyone's crammed together so tightly that it's like really hard not to

Um, and then being kind of dragged with your head down, either crawling or like in, in a stress position on the ground.

And then they kind of kick you and make you go forward again.

And just being taken, it's clearly just designed like nothing meaningful happened in our life.

being taken from a cage to an isolation room to a prison cell back to a cage back to it was just like constant movement and humiliation they're just trying to make it so you can't sleep and feel like they're humiliating us um taken to another room to get a strip search to get like tripped over while you're naked or like they with you and

um and then back into another cage um they're also shooting people with rubber bullets or or dropping flashbangs so you have this sense that there's like this constant violence happening around you you hear people screams and then maybe you're together with a group and you can kind of talk a little bit about how people are and some people are way more injured than others so it's like

they you're crammed into a like a cage and then they're like sit down and everyone and it's like we can't sit down and then they like shoot some rubber bullets and everyone tries to sit down and then they're like you stand back up again and lots of the people are just so injured that it's like impossible to stand back up so everyone's like trying to help them get back up again um yeah it's just constant the whole time before and then eventually we were released

funny was that the demeanor from everyone or were there some that were aggressive some that were serious i just i just i'm trying to get into the frame of mind you have to do this too yeah it's um it's i think it's pretty difficult to kind of rationalize or understand from a human perspective because it's so grotesque there's a little bit of the good cop bad cop vibe like sometimes there'd be like a really angry person and then someone who's sort of like

seems more tender or whatever but there was like there was a lot of that like disassociated sarcastic sort of joy in the violence thing and lots of talk like lots of lots of talking about israel they'll say like do you love israel or do you um

There were heaps of like trying to humiliate us, but it's just so like weird and confusing.

You don't really understand.

You just don't respond.