West bank: Palestinian prisoner suffers breakdown

 NABLUS (Ma‘an) 16 Aug -- On July 18, 30-year-old Muath Dureidi crossed the
Allenby Bridge into the West Bank, excited to take a job in his native
Palestine after receiving word that a local company had accepted his
application. His excitement turned to horror, however, after Israeli forces
detained him and kept him isolated from the outside world for the next 28
days. By the end of his ordeal, Dureidi had suffered a complete mental
breakdown, and today sits completely mute in the Arab Specialized Hospital
in Nablus. It was not supposed to turn out this way for Dureidi, a native
of the Tulkarem-area village of Beit Lid in the northern West Bank. His
father Nasr told Ma‘an that before his arrest, Muath had travelled to the
United Arab Emirates in his quest for a job, completing in-person
interviews with a number of companies in the wealthy Persian Gulf state.
Shortly after arriving in the UAE, however, Muath received word from a West
Bank company he had previously applied to that he had been accepted. He
subsequently flew back to Jordan in order to return to his homeland, since
Palestinians are forbidden by Israel from using the more direct route
through Ben Gurion Airport. After disembarking at the airport near the
Jordanian capital Amman and making his way to the Allenby Bridge over the
Jordan River, his father said Muath made a short call home in which he said
Israeli intelligence services had detained him....
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