A doctor at the field hospital set up in the Sde Teiman detention center to hold arrested Gazans described the catastrophic conditions faced by the detainees, shackled on all four limbs 24 hours a day, a condition that causes serious injuries to the hands and legs and that often […]
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And medico of the field hospital set up in the detention center of Sde Teiman to detain the inhabitants of Gaza arrested described the catastrophic conditions in which they find themselves prisoners, chained with all four limbs 24 hours a daya condition that causes serious wounds to the hands and legs and which he often wears to amputation. As reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretzthe situation in serious violation of the law was described by the doctor in a letter addressed to senior Israeli officials.
The doctor revealed that detainees at the center, located near the southern Israeli city of Beershebathey come regularly blindfoldedfed with only one strawthey are denied access to bath and are subjected to important surgical interventions without adequate medical care: “Two prisoners were legs amputated due to the injuries caused by the handcuffs.” There is no compliance with any provisions laid down for the salute of prisoners, he added. “This makes all of us, the medical teams and those in charge of us in the Ministries of Health and Defense, complicit in the violation of Israeli law. And maybe worse for me as a doctor, because I have violated my commitment fundamental towards patients, wherever they are, as I swore when I graduated 20 years ago”.
The conditions of prisoners they were also reported by the same Israeli newspaper at the beginning of March, when on its front page it reported the news of 27 Palestinian prisoners – captured between Gaza and the West Bank – deaths due to mistreatment suffered during their imprisonment, as their parents testified bodies brutalized by beatings. A situation also described by officials of theUnrwa and from the complaints they collected: iron bars for the beatings, electric shocks, dogs e burns of cigarette. Conditions in violation of international law and which often lead to the death of prisoners, whose bodies they are buried in mass graves.
In February one of these was found in Gaza with i decomposing bodies of dozens of blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian detainees, as written by Al Jazeera online that at least 30 bodies were found in “black plastic bags” near the Hamad school, in the north of the Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had called for an international investigation into what it described as Israeli “massacres”, demanding that a team visit Gaza “to discover the truth and the dimensions of the genocide to which our people are exposed”. Witnesses had told the Qatari TV station that the people found were blindfolded, tortured and executed before being put in the bags.
In a report published in January on theOh chr (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), and cited by Euronewsthe head of the agency Ajith Sunghay he also described the conditions of numerous Palestinian detainees released by Israel after 30-55 days of captivity. “They described being beaten, humiliated, subjected to ill-treatment and what amounted to torture. They reported that they had been blindfolded for long periods, some of them for several consecutive days. There are reports of men being released only with diapers and without adequate clothing in this cold weather,” Sunghay reported.
2024-04-04 11:45:04
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