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‘Designed to humiliate’: Israel’s torture of Gaza’s healthcare workers | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Dr. Khaled Alser’s voice is tense, remembering the way the Israeli soldiers tormented, insulted and other paramedics.

The 33 -year -old surgeon on an unstable call online said that their treatment was “designed to humiliate us.” “You forced us to make the donkey voice.”

Dr. Alserr was arrested with other health care workers at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in March last year – they had care for their care despite the Israeli attacks on the hospital in February.

Rights groups say the arrests are part of Israel’s deliberate targeting of health care workers, indicating the arrests of more than 250 Palestinian health care workers.

In its report, Torture of medical workers in IsraelDoctors for Human Rights, Israel (PhRI) classified arbitrary detention and abused health care workers in Gaza.

Among the paramedics were interviewed by the Alziris report, whose destroyed return was arrested to his father in Gaza on the video below.

“We will cut your fingers because you are a dentist.”

On an unequal phone line from Gaza, a wing sound that connects behind, Dr. Alserr is specific to his detention.

He describes that he is forced from the hospital with doctors, nurses and other employees, and made a naked abstraction “in public places and in front of the soldiers and nearby homes” on March 25 last year.

“Then they allowed us to put our underwear, and tied our wrists with plastic relationships.”

Dr. Alserr was interrogated three times, twice by the soldiers and once by people who said they were Israeli security services, The Shin Bet.

Najji Abbas said from Farri, that the interrogation aims to know whether the paramedics have encountered any information that Israel can help in its attack on Gaza – a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention, which protects medical workers.

The questions were always the same.

Dr. Khaled Alsi RR, Nasser Hospital, Canener 2024-
Dr. Khaled Alelil, Nasser Hospital, January 2024 [Courtesy of Khaled Alserr]

“[They] When asked about my identity and work and what I was doing on October 7. Where were you, who were you dealing? Nothing about me.

Among more than 250 Palestinian health care workers – doctors, nurses, paramedics and other basic medical employees – held by Israel throughout the war, are still more than 150 detainees.

Of the 24 health care workers who were interviewed for the report of NGOs, they all said they have not been officially charged or provided reliable evidence against them.

Instead, they were threatened, beaten and insulted, throughout the time that they are interrogated from the captives from Israel, tunnels, and anything that you may have heard about Hamas movements.

One of the doctors, Dr. KJ, recalled that he was told during the attack: “We will cut your fingers because you are a dentist.”

A senior surgeon, a senior surgeon, Dr. MT, told NGOs that military dogs had been placed on the detainees while witnessing the soldiers and laughing. He said: “They made us bark like dogs.”

Many health care workers have seen that they are exposed to sexual and psychological abuse by Israeli soldiers, including overcoming them, leaving for hours of stress, and receiving threats against their families and coercion to play “games” or face more beating.

“On March 28, the soldiers and other civilian prisoners, between the ages of 16 and 17, called me, Dr. Alice remembers.

“It was the night. They tied us very tightly to our wrists and the ankles and put us in a military car. No one told us anything.

“They were laughing. I was trying to explain in English that relations on my wrist were very narrow, but they only said that I am a doctor so I would be fine.

“At about four in the morning, I heard one of them in Arabic:” These three must be hanged. “

Al -Jarrah said: “I thought it was the end.” “I was painful. They broke the ribs of my country. Even when they said I would get stuck, I didn’t care. He said:” I just wanted to end. “

Dr. Alserr has not been released until late September, as he did not sing it with his parents, who is the only care provider.

total, Hold more than six months In Israeli detention without charge. He spent half of that time in Incomunicado, under the law of illegal fighters in Israel.

Dr. Khaled Alelil and his team, Nasser Hospital, Gaza. October 3, 2024-
Dr. Khaled Alceber (right) and the team at Nasser Hospital on October 3, 2024 [Courtesy of Khaled Alserr]

Illegal activity

“This is illegal in many charges,” Abbas said from Frei to Al Jazerera.

“It is illegal first, because you can not only arrest a person on the task of hunting, and secondly, health care workers are a protected category under international humanitarian law.”

The abuse and starvation that caused Israel in health care workers “is” moral and legal anger “, but it seemed a matter of politics.

“nothing [the healthcare workers] They accused anything or officially charged. ”Another person was introduced with a person who identifies themselves as a judge – sometimes with military uniforms, or on the other side of the phone line – told them that he would remain in the reservation until the end of the war.

“We have no idea about the identity of these people,” he said.

Abbas recalls: “Many of the people we spoke to talked about being a victim of sexual violence and humiliation,” it seems that the use of dogs either to attack or urinate on prisoners is repeatedly repeated.

“The idea is for soldiers to steal Palestinian men – and doctors specifically – from their dignity. This type of torture also leaves scars. Those that take a long time to recover.”

History of violence

Reports on the Israeli forces that torment the health care workers for long -term intelligence, and according to the legal representatives of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital Dr. Hafam Abu SoufaThe Israeli army took in December, continuing.

The case of Dr. Abu Safea is similar to arbitrary detention Dr. Adanan Al -Borsh, 49,Who “may have been raped to death” during his Israeli detention, said Francesca Albaniz on a social networking site in November.

In August last year, the HRW Watch report on the arrest of Israel to torture Gaza health care workers said that it is worth an investigation by the International Criminal Court.

HRW conducted an interview with many health care workers held by Israel during the forced evacuation of health care facilities, with reference to repeated cases of humiliation, beating, and forcing prisoners to maintain stress sites. They also reported torture, including rape and sexual assault by Israeli forces.

Melina Ansari, a HRW lawyer who worked in the report, said: “Their status of health care workers did not stop abuse,” said Melina Ansari, a HRW lawyer who worked in the report.

“The surgeons, the paramedics, the doctors and the nurses were ill. One of the surgeons told me that he was interrogated while he was still in the scrub … the soldiers did not care.”

A report issued by the Human Rights Office last year (OHCHR) said that it was “clear” to hold wholesale health workers in a siege that has been killed so far, about 60,000 Palestinians have also contributed to the collapse of the health care system desperately. Reducing the effect of Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza.

Dr. Alserr stopped the invitation for five minutes, there was a crisis in his wing that needed his attention.

He said to the phone, “I was deeply hurt,” he said.

“I know I will not heal completely. I just hide it by working. By keeping a busy.”



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2025-02-26 09:32:00

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