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AMSTEREDAM - THE NETHERLANDS - 27 JULY 2009 -- Mohammed OMER (25), a young prize winning journalist from the Gaza Strip. In 2008, while traveling back to the Gaza Strip via Allenby Bridge to the West Bank, Mohammed OMER reported that he was stripped to his underwear, humiliated and beaten by Israeli soldiers while traveling into the West Bank from Jordan. Since October 2008 Mohammed OMER has been receiving medical treatment in Dutch hospitals in Holland due to doctors finding signs of torture. -- Mohammed OMER travels by train every week to Arnhem to receive treatment to his spine.  PHOTO: Juha ROININEN / EUP-IMAGES