When nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees were released from Israeli prisons under a U.S. brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Gaza expected homecomings. What arrived instead were ghosts of survival. Men emaciated, blind, and broken by months or years of systematic torture.

In this episode of Outside the Bubble, we go beyond headlines into the unspoken war fought inside Israeli detention centres. Through the voices of freed Palestinians, including Mahmoud Abu Foul, who was beaten blind and journalist Shadi Abu Sido who was lied to for months about his family’s death. We uncover the machinery of silence that has defined Israel’s prison system for decades.

We explore testimony from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the chilling accounts of detainees who say the abuse continued even after the ceasefire. This is not one man’s story. It’s a map of systemic torture, psychological warfare, and the erasure of due process.

As Gaza struggles under blockade and the world debates the meaning of “ceasefire,” these stories force us to ask: what does freedom mean when the walls follow you home?

This episode examines the intersection of occupation, imprisonment, and international accountability in Palestine.

In the hours after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza, Israeli soldiers set fire to homes, food stores, and Gaza’s last functioning sewage water treatment plant. What was framed as a peaceful withdrawal became something else: a scorched exit that destroyed and defamed the last standing homes and infrastructure in an already destroyed city.

In this episode of Outside the Bubble, we trace those final hours before Israeli forces pulled back. Uncovering documented acts of arson shared by IDF soldiers online, the destruction of essential infrastructure, and the lasting human toll for Gaza’s residents.

You’ll hear how the Sheikh Ajlin sewage plant: Gaza City’s last major water treatment facility was burned to the ground, pushing the region’s sanitation system “to point zero.” And through voices on the ground, we explore what “ceasefire” really means for a population returning to ruins. This is not the end of war, it’s the beginning of survival. (And as of publishing this Podcast Netanyahu and the Israeli Government have broke this peace treaty by drone striking and killing a Palestinian man in Khan Younis).

Welcome to the first episode of Outside the Bubble, the show dedicated to amplifying marginalised voices and stories. In this episode, we uncover a leaked Israeli army database exposing the real civilian-to-militant death ratio, discuss the jailing of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a takeover of the Brazilian government, and revisit the 2025 Zikim Crossing tragedy in Palestine.