I want you to look at this picture. No, please don’t look away. Look at it carefully. Beyond the huddle of hefty military figures, armed to the teeth with their machine guns—one pressed threateningly against the young boy’s hips—do you see what I see? Obviously, a shocking abuse of power: a mob of soldiers, poised to kill, if not assault, a vulnerable, lightly clad child. But look again. The devil is in the detail. The angle of the youth’s body says much. His neck is strained, the head tilts backwards under pressure; the shoulder and t-shirt are being tugged so that the collar of the boy’s t-shirt is askew and cuts the neck below the Adam’s apple. Jostled by the force of bodies shoving him from behind, he appears to be staggering. Blindfolded, he has lost his footing. His bloodied cheek and chin foretell the shape of things to come. He will be led at gunpoint to a hellish destination—one of Israel’s detention centres for Palestinian youth; and he will be subjected to torture and merciless interrogation.

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