“He was interrogated and he was actually beaten.”That’s a quote from a family friend of Mosab Abu Toha who’s — how should I put this? A Syracuse graduate, Abu Toha founded Gaza’s only English-language library and was a visiting scholar at Harvard, where he served as a librarian, among other roles. In September, when Hamas was in the final stages of planning their attack on Israel, Abu Toha was in Philadelphia for a literature festival. Abu Toha, along with his wife and three children, were on a State Department evacuation list. As she came back to retrieve her son, the troops told her to hurry up.

Source: New York Times November 22, 2023 21:57 UTC