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.”

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    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.

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        17 days ago

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

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

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

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        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.

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          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