We are not withdrawing our staff and we are still present in all the Palestinian territories, both local and foreign staff.

We do not intend to close down our operations or withdraw. We are absolutely committed to pursuing our work.

These images are extremely shocking to us.

We are shocked and dismayed at the mistreatment and abuse displayed in these images.

The type of treatment in these images -- video or photos -- very clearly violates the rules of international humanitarian law which are designed to protect people detained in the context of armed conflict.

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.