Reports suggest that Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been released.
It looks like Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, who was kidnapped on the weekend by Israeli forces as he was trying to cross into Egypt with his family, has been released. Word from both David Remnick and Diana Buttu suggest that Abu Toha was beaten and interrogated, along with 200 others, and then released by the IDF. He is now receiving medical treatment and is with his family. This post will be updated with more details as they arise.
Read his poem, “What Is Home?,” translated here into 21 languages.
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