Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained

At least 160 healthcare workers from Gaza, including more than 20 doctors, are believed to still be inside Israeli detention facilities as the World Health Organisation expressed deep concern about their wellbeing and safety.

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical NGO, said it had confirmed that 162 medical staff remained in Israeli detention, including some of Gaza’s most senior physicians, and a further 24 were missing after being taken from hospitals during the conflict.

Muath Alser, director of HWW, said the detention of large numbers of doctors, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare workers from Gaza was illegal under international law and was furthering the suffering of civilians by denying them medical expertise and care.

“Israel’s targeting of the healthcare workforce in this manner is having a devastating impact on the provision of healthcare to Palestinians, with extensive suffering, countless preventable deaths, and the effective eradication of whole medical specialities,” said Alser.

  • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

    If you get “detained” for no crime, you have been taken hostage. The media refusing to call them what they are is part of the problem

    And these hostages are being tortured:

    “I am talking about clubbing, being beaten with rifle butts and being attacked by dogs. There was little to no food, no personal hygiene, no soap inside the cells, no water, no toilet, no toilet paper … I saw people who were dying there … I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.”

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    9 hours ago

    Another day another Israeli atrocity that attracts no attention from any politician because no one dares to incur the wrath of Zionists and their US henchmen.