We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse. The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers. The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers. “We’re really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities,” says Ansari, who says evidence is mounting of a “systematic pattern of ill-treatment and abuse.”

We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse.

The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers.

The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers. “We’re really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities,” says Ansari, who says evidence is mounting of a “systematic pattern of ill-treatment and abuse.”

  • umbrellaEnglish
    865·
    17 days ago

    it would help if there was any proof at all instead of hearsay by western media

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      442·
      17 days ago

      Here is the latest Amnesty has on the issue. I don’t know if it constitues genocide, but it it certainly crimes against humanity when it comes to torture and mass imprisonment

      • umbrellaEnglish
        423·
        17 days ago

        maybe not genocide is a step down from genocide already. and when push comes to shove, its always documents written by west-sponsored institutions. never a single picture, never a single first party source, just trust me bro

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          192·
          17 days ago

          Pretty sure all the reports by the human rights organizations do have primary sources, these aren’t ‘west sponsored institutions.’ Discrediting them on this is as ridiculous as Zionists who discredit their reports on Israel

          Amnesty International’s Free Xinjiang Detainees campaign has, to date, profiled 126 individuals who are among the perhaps one million or more people who have been held in arbitrary detention in internment camps and prisons in Xinjiang since 2017.

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          152·
          17 days ago

          No, it’s still an ongoing problem. See the latest from Amnesty on China.

          It’s no where near as bad as Israeli crimes against humanity are, but they are still crimes against humanity

    • garpujol@discuss.onlineEnglish
      228·
      17 days ago

      There is lots of proof. You are just here to criticize western civilization. You do not care about Palestine. I can prove it: say something bad about China.

      • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        97·
        17 days ago

        You do not care about Palestine. I can prove it: say something bad about China.

        Yes that totally proves something if they don’t…

        But I thought it was the Russians now not the Chinese who were pushing the stop the genocide rhetoric

            • noride@lemm.eeEnglish
              33·
              17 days ago

              Tbf it’s a pretty damned easy shit test to pass, it’s quite telling when someone won’t even take a swing.

                • garpujol@discuss.onlineEnglish
                  61·
                  17 days ago

                  I’d be glad to.

                  • Native American Displacement and Genocide
                  • Slavery!
                  • Japanese American internment
                  • The entire Vietnam war
                  • support for authoritarian regimes
                  • The invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on the false assumption that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
                  • systematic discrimination against Black people

                  … to name just a few.

                  See, that’s how you criticize your own country when you won’t go to jail for criticizing your own country. No country is 100% perfect. All governments are bastards.

      • umbrellaEnglish
        415·
        17 days ago

        way to shift the burden of proof there. give me that proof.

        a nyt article with extraordinary claims and just pictures of random prisioners doesnt count.

          • Bakersfield@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            17 days ago

            Nothing would. They’re just going to keep repeating “fake news” and disregarding any and all proof.

            • garpujol@discuss.onlineEnglish
              31·
              17 days ago

              Right. Denial is the CCP’s go to excuse.

              Wasn’t that a Shaggy song from like 20 years ago? “Wasn’t me”

          • umbrellaEnglish
            21·
            16 days ago

            actually credible first party witnesses, pictures and videos.

            about the same that gets all of us mad about palestine, and which would be inevitable to exist in big quantities in the 21st century.

            • garpujol@discuss.onlineEnglish
              1·
              16 days ago

              If this event took place in 2024, everyone would have taken photos and video and they would be instantly available to the world.

              As for credible witnesses, you wouldn’t consider any witness I provide credible. You’ve been trained to argue and discredit everything, while at the same time expecting people to accept your sources.

              Here are some videos. Just scrub to the end on mute, the guy’s voice is annoying. I’m sure you’ll claim all this video footage is somehow not credible. And if no credible footage existed than clearly it could have never happened. Convenient.

              https://youtu.be/Cufi0sohVQk