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Palestinian doctors who work in Gaza have accused Israeli forces of the use of electric shocks, converting doctors into human shields and repeatedly torturing after having arrested without charging.
Dr. Khaled Al-Serr, a surgeon in the Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said that the Israeli army overturned the facility on two different occasions and arrested dozens of medical employees while treating wounded Palestinians.
He claimed that when he was held in March last year, he was stripped naked next to four others and was forced to act as a human shield before he was brought to the SDE Teiman Military Detention Center in southern Israel.
There he said he was forced to make confessions while he was fascinated for three months, even while he was asleep, so badly beaten his ribs vomiting and interrogating about the hospital.
Dr. Khaled Al-Serr, a surgeon in the Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, claims that in addition to four others he was stripped naked and was forced to act as a human shield in Gaza before being brought to a detention center (delivered)
His account comes as the UN said on Monday that Israel killed 15 medical and emergency workers when they tried to save the wounded from the southern city of Rafah.
More than 250 Palestinian doctors – including doctors, nurses and paramedics – are supposed to have been kept in Israel since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023, according to human rights group doctors for human rights Israel (Phri), who claim that 180 are still behind the bars “without the correct process”.
In October, an independent committee concluded that Israel has committed 'a coordinated policy' to destroy the Gaza health care system, with 'ruthless and deliberate attacks' on medical staff and facilities that amount to war crimes and crime against humanity of extermination.
The Israeli army has repeatedly denied the abuse of abuse and the aiming of Hamas militants of the use of hospitals in Gaza as bases, despite the provision of scarce proof of such a serious indictment.
But Palestinian health workers described violent raids and bombing of hospitals, mass arrests and disappearances of staff, torture and deaths in detention.
Details of the alleged abuse come as The independent Released his own investigation, revealed evidence of abuse, torture and death of Palestinian prisoners, including some of the most renowned doctors of Gaza, in the prisons of Israel.
On Monday, the UN said that Israel still killed 15 medical and care providers when they tried to save the wounded from the southern city of Rafah. Shown: funeral of one of the ICRC employees (AP)
Remembering his alleged treatment one evening, Dr. Al-Serro against The independent: “I was tied everywhere, from my ankles to my wrists. I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe well.
“Soldiers sat over me, put their shoes over me. People kept kicking me and struck the back of his gun or his foot … Every two minutes I am defeated by a fist or a kick, or hit the back of their weapons. I describe it as the way to hell.”
He said wounded prisoners would come to him for help – including four men who told him they had been raped by Israeli prison protectors with sharp objects, which caused rectal bleeding.
A man, 24 years old, was so disturbed by the torture-hij told Dr. Al-Serr that the rape included and that Israel had bombed his family in Gaza because he would not confess-that he had a breakdown and would poop uncontrollably and pee when the guards arrived. It got so bad that Dr. Al-Serr it said that the guards gave him a diaper to wear.
Dr. Iyas al-Bursh, a general practitioner who worked in the Al Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, said he was also arrested while working in March. He described for four months in SDE Teiman and then seven in Ofer Prison on the occupied West Bank.
“It was a hard and difficult life and experience interspersed with torment and torture in all forms, whether it was physical torture from beating, punching and electric shocks to psychological torture and medical neglect,” he said, adding that he lost several family members in Israel's bombings.
“We denied our human rights and were prevented from communicating with our families or a legal authority.”
Dr. Iyas Adel al-Bursh is a general practitioner who worked in the Al-Shifa hospital (delivered)
The Israeli army has investigated at least one copy of guards in SDE Teiman who tortures a prisoner – in an indictment that is seen by The independentFive guards are accused of aggravated attack, including a prisoner “stabbing” with a sharp object, which resulted in an internal rectal tear.
However, they said that this was an “exceptional” incident and denied bad treatment of doctors.
“Regarding the detention of medical staff – some suspects were held during operations in medical facilities, which were used for military purposes by Hamas and other terrorist organizations,” the army said in a statement The independent.
“Among the prisoners were also medical staff or persons who were told such staff, who were involved in terrorist activities, and some were even members of the military wing of Hamas, while at the same time working at the medical institution. The IDF works in accordance with international law and does not hold medical employees because of their work as such.”
Spend against The independentYasmine al-Bursh, wife of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a renowned Palestinian surgeon, described how she merged what happened to him after he was held in prison in April, four months after he was held.
She said that former cellmates described how he had lost almost half of his body weight and was subject to extreme violence and torture.
Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a renowned Palestinian surgeon, died in Israeli detention (supplied)
Dr. Guy Shalev, an Israeli doctor and the director of Phri, said that Palestinian doctors were the target of Israel, despite their unique protection under congresses and international law, at a time when the destruction of the infrastructure of the health care system has even more impact.
“We know that when the only pediatric orthopedist in the nearby region of Gaza is held in an Israeli confinement facility, that person does not do the important work there,” he said.
“If you attack a health care system, you will not only attack the few hundred people who are attacking, or the few hundred people holding you. You will damage a whole population.”
He warned that the violation of international conventions and the protection of health care in Gaza is something “we as humanity will pay in future conflicts”.
“These violations are so clear, so clear, and we see no responsibility; there is no effective international pressure on Israel to adhere to these conventions, that this means that these conventions have no meaning or do not apply in practice.
“This is very disturbing in terms of what the future of care – the idea, the ability to take care of another person – looks like.”
Two older men walk while a cloud of smoke breaks out in the Northern Gaza Strip (AFP via Getty)
Israel launched a devastating invasion of Gaza in response to the bloody attacks of Hamas -Militants in South Israel on October 7, in which they killed more than 1200 people and took more than 250 hostages.
According to Palestinian health officials, more than 50,000 Palestinians were killed in the bombing of Israel – including more than 1,057 Palestinian health and medical professionals, according to the United Nations.
The High Commissioner for the Rights of the UN, Volker Turk, warned in January that the UN had documented at least 136 strikes on at least 27 hospitals and 12 other medical provisions in Gaza, adding that the “protection of hospitals during warfare is a paramument and must be at all times, at all times”.
At present, only 15 of the 24 hospitals, with so many doctors behind bars, function that different departments cannot function.
