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Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month.
Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in detention, where, he said, muzzled dogs were set upon him and his hand was broken by an Israeli soldier.
His account closely matches those of two other medics who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
They told the BBC they were humiliated, beaten, doused with cold water, and forced to kneel in uncomfortable positions for hours. They said they were detained for days before being released.
An expert in humanitarian law said the footage and the testimony from the medical staff interviewed by the BBC was “extremely concerning”. He said some of the accounts provided to the BBC “very clearly cross over into the category of cruel and inhumane treatment”.
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Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, co-director of the Centre for International Law at the University of Bristol, said: “It goes against what has for a long time been a very fundamental idea in the law that applies in armed conflict, which is that hospitals and medical staff are protected. The fact that they treat nationals of the enemy side should not in any way undermine their protection,” he said.
This is what is most disturbing. By attacking hospitals and medical staff they are going against one of the most important rules in modern warfare.
They also failed to present evidence for their reason of attacking the hospital: “To retrieve dead bodies of hostages”.
Israel: No Evidence So Far That Hamas Held Hostages in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
So aside from killing people in a hospital for dead bodies which is israel saying “our dead people are worth more than alive Palestinians”, those dead bodies were a lie to begin with.
Yes. A real pattern is emerging of attacking hospitals, sniping medics, bombing ambulances, beating up doctors, etc.
These are war crimes.
Always have been.
I had a discussion on Reddit with a guy that insisted Geneva convention allows to treat, civilians, medics and journalists as targets if there’s a suspicion there exists the possibility of a combat being disguised.
I called him a shill and got banned. There really is no hope for humanity.
Israel won’t stop until they murder all Palestinians in their supposed promised holy land.
Religious fanaticism is a terrible evil.
Israel has already said they eventually want Jordan, Syria and even Turkey. The won’t stop after Palestine.
Lebensraumers gotta Lebensraum.
Israel already occupies a part of Syria and they regularly bomb Lebanon.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month.
Dr Abu Sabha, the 26-year-old newly qualified doctor and volunteer medic at Nasser, described some elements of his treatment while in detention as torture, such as making detainees stand for hours without a break.
In addition, the International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC that it has received dozens of phone calls from people who say family members, including medics, who were at Nasser, are now missing.
The BBC confirmed that Dr Abu Sabha had an X-ray and sought treatment for a broken hand at a field hospital in Gaza after his detention, and that he arrived there in a cast with a Star of David drawn on it.
An internal UN report seen by the BBC has described widespread abuse of Palestinians who have been captured and interrogated at makeshift Israeli detention centres since the war began, which are similar to the accounts the medics gave.
Medics who remained were frightened of being shot if they defied orders not to leave the building, Dr Hatim Rabaa, who also worked at Nasser, told the BBC in a phone call on 22 February, as explosions sounded in the background.
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I’d like there to be more transparency about this internal UN report.
What UN? This is the BBC
Somehow everyone except Israel is lying about what Israel is doing.
News article is on some pretty robust BBC investigative reporting.
I saw a video of a Gaza medic taking a rifle off a dying Hamas fighter and handing it to another Hamas fighter. Shouldn’t Israel be taking security measures when Hamas regularly disguises is fighters as medics?
That’s really cool that you saw that one video and now everyone in Gaza is actually Hamas even the babies and 5 year old children are Hamas.
Why did israel claim there were hostage bodies in the hospital and they didn’t find any? Care to respond to that instead of the irrelevant video you saw?
I’m not surprised that you’re putting your psychotic mis-interpretation onto what I said. Unfortunately it’s a refrain that I see time and time again from Hamas supporters, emotional misinformation instead of actually debating the point.
The point of attacking this hospital were “bodies of hostages”. Where are those?
You want to pivot real badly to something irrelevant because you know you cannot possibly defend israel’s Genocidal attack on a now proven innocent hospital.
So taking a weapon off a dying person (presumably to help the dying person, which medics tend to do) and giving it to someone nearby for safe keeping makes you a fighter now? Hell the medic might have given the weapon to the hamas fighter to protect him doing his (geneva-convention protected) job while the oh-so-moral IDF was firing at them.
But of course, this one video totally warrants the destruction of several hospitals and the torture and murder of doctors and patients. What a bullshit argument.
For safe keeping
My brother in Christ, the dude immediately started shooting at the IDF.
Look, even if your logic held, even if these people were all Hamas fighters, this treatment of prisoners of war is a war crime and violation of the Geneva convention.
Should Palestines be taking security measures when being slaughtered by a vile genocidal racist fascist ethnostate?
Sure, feel free to head there and fight for them.
Well that’s good you support their fight against Israel. I’d be too afraid to go against all those zealots with all that American military hardware and id guess you would too.
Link?
Medical personnel are allowed to join combat, it just means they lose their protection. But I don’t think handling weapons is a “direct part in hostilities”.
Not that Israel has been avoiding shooting medical personnel, bombing hospitals, etc. anyway.
Ahh, the good old Nazi myth of “group guilt” were everybody of an etnic group is guilty by association and hence it justifies the invaders exterminating them all in “self-defense”.
Zionists are full-on Nazis.
Ah the good ol “Israelis should just stop defending themselves so they can get exterminated in peace” argument from the pro-Hamas wing.
Love how you managed to fit not one, not two, but actually three pieces of NAZI-style argumentation in one single sentence:
- You doubled down on using Hamas and their deeds to blame all Palestinians, using once again with not a shred of shame a variant of the NAZI myth of common etnic guilt.
- The good old “if you’re not with us then you’re with our enemies” so beloved of Fascists, this one in the NAZI “you must be with the worst of our enemies” variant.
- The very same logic of “we have to kill them to defend our race” that the NAZIs used to justify the mass murder of Jews.
Zionist brainwashing with NAZI-style extreme-racism and etnic-victimhood mythology to justify aggressive action is really a sight to see.
where is this video? in your fictitious imagination?
Why would I post a video that would get me banned? You’d like that huh? Google yourself if you want to see.
just as I guessed. It’s a figment of your imagination.
