Health workers in Israel’s torture camps (2)
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Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they faced. The original article has a short video taken 6 days after the release of Dr. Issam Abu Ajwa. He describes the ordeal, including that when arrested, with others, they were blindfolded, stripped (and it was cold). For 125 days he was kept with his hands and feet tied for 24 hours a day. Furthermore, “one of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery,” he says.
“To date, two of Gaza’s most senior doctors have died in Israeli detention. Dr Iyad al-Rantisi, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kamal Adwan hospital, died at Shikma prison.”
This makes for almost unbearable but essential reading.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Tue 25 Feb 2025. Read the original here.
No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they face.
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It is beyond belief how these decent human beings who are Doctors & Senior Medical staff could have been subjected to so much vicious and inhumane violence for simply doing their job. How can the International community, the United Nations, the European Union, the World Health Organisation and most importantly the World media allow this to happen?
Is this how the most Democratic country in the Middle East (as we’re constantly reminded by our politicians in the West) behaves ??
I am sickened to the bone to have witnessed and continue to witness this kind of behaviour by the Israeli Army that was given Carte Blanche by a government full of thugs and racists that the Western democracies fully support.
I am truly lost for words on the situation in Gaza/Palestine and I’m not sure how the Western world is going to recover from this?