“We met a gentleman who told us that he’d been kicked in the abdomen recently, in the last 48 hours. We were talking to him, and we were doing an ultrasound. And while he was there, he was telling us that the Israeli prison officers had wrapped his penis in a metal wire, [which] prevented him from being able to pee for five days. And then after that, he became incontinent. He also mentioned some sexual torture, but he wasn’t comfortable to go into the details at that time,” she said.

Another patient, she added, had a gastrointestinal disorder that he had received treatment for before he was taken to prison. When he was in Israeli detention, he asked for medication but it was not provided to him, Lalonde said.

“He told us that when he was sick, the doctor would take him into a room, and the doctor had two things. The doctor had gas – he didn’t tell us how the gas was used by the doctor – and also had a stick, and the doctor would beat him and tell him that he can’t say he was sick. And then on his last day at the prison, which was the day that we met him, he was taken into a room, and some kind of Israeli intelligence officers spoke with him, and they said that actually they had a bomb prepared for him, and they loved him so much that the bomb was not only for him, but for his entire family, and that that was their plan for him when he returned to Gaza – to bomb his family and kill them all.”