An Egyptian who was Israel’s longest-serving Arab prisoner until freed in February is suing Israel for $3 billion. Convicted in 1977 of planting a mine that killed an Israeli soldier in the then-occupied Sinai Peninsula, Mohammad Salim Sawarka now charges that he was tortured in an Israeli jail.
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