SHOTLIST:

GAZA, PALESTINE (OCT. 16, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF RELATIVE PUSHING RELEASED PALESTINIAN PRISONER WHO LOST SIGHT, MAHMOUD ABU FUL ON WHEELCHAIR

2. VARIOUS OF CLOSE SHOTS OF MAHMOUD ABU FUL

3. MAHMOUD ABU FUL SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

4. VARIOUS OF MAHMOUD ABU FUL TALKING WITH RELATIVE

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RELEASED PALESTINIAN CAPTIVE ABU ISRAEL MAHMOUD ABU FUL SAYING:

[...]"In prison, during interrogation, I was tortured. After about two hours, they hit me on the head, from behind and from the front. Two hours later, my vision started to blur. My eyes began to tear heavily, and there was even a strange discharge. The young men around me tried to help me, but after two hours, everything went blurry, and I couldn’t see anything anymore.

[...] I fainted at that moment. When I woke up two hours later, there was no sight, nothing, just tears coming from my eyes.

[...] There’s nothing worse in this world than being a captive who has lost his sight.

[...] I wished that I could see, even for one moment, to see my family and loved ones again."
GAZA, PALESTINE - OCT. 16, 2025: A 28-year-old Palestinian, Mahmoud Abu Ful, said he lost his eyesight after being subjected to severe torture during the eight months he was held captive by Israel.

Abu Ful said he was hospitalized and unable to walk due to an amputated leg when he was arrested. During interrogation, he said he endured hours of intense torture, after which his vision began to blur and fluid discharged from his eyes.

“I fainted at that moment. When I woke up two hours later, there was no sight, nothing,” he told local reporters.

He described the loss of his sight as making imprisonment even more unbearable.

“There’s nothing worse in this world than being a captive who has lost his sight,” he said.

After his release, Abu Ful said he discovered his home had been destroyed. “I wished that I could see, even for one moment, to see my family and loved ones again,” he said, adding that he hopes to travel abroad for treatment to regain his sight.

Israel has kept Gaza’s border crossings completely closed since March 2, blocking food, medicine, and other life essentials. Thousands of aid trucks remain stalled on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing as Israel continues to prevent its reopening, linking it to the return of the remaining bodies of Israeli hostages.

The Gaza ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and Hamas last week, based on a plan presented by US President Donald Trump. Phase one included the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The plan also envisages the rebuilding of Gaza and the establishment of a new governing mechanism without Hamas.

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed nearly 68,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children, and rendered it largely uninhabitable.

Reporting by Mehmet Nuri Ucar, Nour Mahd Ali Abuaisha / Writing by Ayse Elif Erdis