(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - Over the past two months, more than 20 Palestinians have been arrested while trying to cross from Gaza into Israel, according to Palestinian sources. The Palestinian news website Al-Watan Voice interviewed two of the young men who said they prefer the "comfort" of Israeli prisons to life in Hamas-controlled Gaza. Ahmed al-Rai, 19, was shot and wounded by IDF troops as he approached the security buffer zone along the border. He lost a leg and is now in Nasser Hospital in Gaza. "I thought it would be easy to infiltrate the border, but now my life has become even more miserable," he said. The second youth, identified as Rabi, 16, was held in detention for three months before being sent back home. "I'm sad that I'm back in Gaza," Rabi said. "I went through happy times [in Israeli detention], where I had food, calm and good work." He said that when the interrogator asked him about the reason he wanted to come to Israel, he responded: "My father, who once worked in Israel, told me it was beautiful there."
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