Healthy looking released terrorist tells Al Jazeera how Israeli prisons are worse than Auschwitz ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, October 17, 2025

Healthy looking released terrorist tells Al Jazeera how Israeli prisons are worse than Auschwitz

Al Jazeera broadcast a ten minute interview with Mahmoud al-Arada, one of the most popular prisoners released in the ceasefire deal. He is best known for having briefly escaped Gilboa prison in 2021 before recapture, making him a folk hero. He was convicted in 1996 for his role as a senior Islamic Jihad operative and in murdering Israelis. He was released to Egypt, from where he did this interview.

Arada accused Israel of torturing prisoners mercilessly and claimed that Israel killed hundreds, maybe thousands, of Gaza prisoners. He says he was beaten and that the Israeli authorities tried to kill him multiple times while in prison. He even told Al Jazeera that the Nazis were more merciful to Jews than what the Jews are doing today to prisoners. (And, yes, he said Jews, not "Zionists" or "Israelis.")

Here is Arada during the interview.

He looks healthy. He looks younger than his age of 50. He doesn't look like he is emaciated, or has any broken bones, or was subject to merciless torture he described.

Yet the ridiculous accusations against Israel by this convicted murderer and top terrorist are being reported as unvarnished truth all over Arab media today. And a percentage of these incessant lies from murderers and terrorists end up being laundered into western news reports and NGO statements, where they become source material for academic papers, Wikipedia and AI.

This is how anti-Israel propaganda works. And it is extremely difficult to counter - even when the evidence that they are all lying is as plain as the nose on Mahmoud Al Arada's face.