The Torture Inflicted on Palestinian Health Workers by Isra-l

… and not only health workers!

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@democracynow 1min34
Medical workers have reported severe torture in Israeli prisons.

In one instance, Israeli soldiers showed an orthopedics specialist surveillance footage of his home, threatening to drone strike his family, says Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American surgeon volunteering in Gaza.

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@KavitaAlguMD
Must read:
Absolutely devastating piece in @guardian detailing some of the torture inflicted on Palestinian health workers by Israel:

- Abductions from the operating room
- Being stripped and kept in the cold
- Beatings to the point of being unable to walk
- Teeth being broken
- Rapes
- Murders
- Starvation
- Sleep derivation
- Being blindfolded and restrained for >100 days

Not one of these health workers has been charged with any crime.

One surgeon, Dr. Abu Ajwa was told by Israeli personnel that they wanted to make his hands not functional.

‘Since he was released from detention, Abu Ajwa has not managed to fix his broken teeth but has gone back to work in Gaza’s shattered healthcare system.

“As for the interrogator who was determined to make me lose sensation in my hands, I say: ‘no matter what you do … I am a doctor, and I will practice my profession. I will always continue, until my last breath, to be in the operating theatre.’”’

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 Dr Issam Abu Ajwa, the surgeon, says that after he was detained, interrogators were told to 'work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery.

@KavitaAlguMD
It is almost unbelievable that our public health institutions have been punishing doctors, nurses and other health workers for speaking out against these monstrous crimes, while simultaneously continuing investments and relationships with Israeli institutions.
2025-02-26

Please read the full article here:
‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention | Human rights | The Guardian

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@swilkinsonbc
Wael Jumaa describes his torture in israeli jail — arrested after the israeli bombing of his home in northern Gaza, which slaughtered his entire family.