Israel is holding 160 medical staff, most with no charges or trial. Many are being tortured.
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Israel is holding 160 medical staff, most with no charges or trial. Many are being tortured.
Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia was held and eventually released with no charges. He recalls “I am talking about clubbing, being beaten with rifle butts and being attacked by dogs. There was little to no food, no personal hygiene, no soap inside the cells, no water, no toilet, no toilet paper … I saw people who were dying there … I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.”
"I was on the floor on my knees with a blindfold and they were beating me … after this I was put in a vehicle, myself and many others piled on top of each other in a humiliating and degrading way,” he says. “Everyone was screaming, everyone was crying out ‘we don’t know where we’re going.’ The beating was constant.”
He says he was handcuffed for 24 hours a day and interrogators used planks with chains to restrain his hands for hours at a time. “They said they wanted to make sure I could never return to work.”
He added, "When I told them my name, they pointed their weapons at me and their laser [sights] at my head and chest and I was immediately detained … as if they were waiting for me, as if they had seized a big prize,” he says.
63-year-old Abu Ajwa said, during interrogations, “They would throw me on the ground. One would hit me on the head while the other opened my ear and poured water inside,” he says. “There was a bathroom [in the interrogation room] … [they] would take a toilet brush and tell me ‘today we are going to brush your teeth.’ I was tied up, blindfolded and three or four of them held my face, pinned it down and kept scrubbing.”
He added, "One of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery,” he says“They beat me with rifle butts and chairs,” he says. “After that, they poured sand over my head and shoved dirt into my mouth.
The testimony by them and others in Israeli detention matches the testimony I have heard from Israeli guards. It also matches the charges faced by five reservists for torture of detainees. The way prisoners are being held violates every law. And often the people treated worst, who end up dead or with amputated limbs, are never charged. There is no security reason for any of this behavior. It is just cruelty and dehumanization.
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