Medical staff at Nasser hospital say they were blindfolded, detained, and forced to strip by Israeli soldiers.

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”.

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1612·
        8 months ago

        Stop trying to further divide an issue. Helpful to literally no one.

        Not all Jewish people are Israeli. What a dumb comment.

        • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          244·
          8 months ago

          Literally no one is blaming all Jewish people in this case.

          The Israeli government are Nazis, the IDF are Nazis and everyone else (no matter their religion, race, etc.) who supports this genocide is a Nazi. Period!

          The problem, in this special case, is, once you point a finger towards Israel (or any other Jew who supports that), they use anti-semitism as a shield, they - disrespectfully - use the Holocaust as a shield.

          • WandererEnglish
            121·
            8 months ago

            What you don’t understand is in the Holocaust Jews were thought of as animals, as vermin to be exterminated and they weren’t.

            But here Palestine is full of animals, of vermin and they need to be exterminated.

            Total different.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            That use of the anti-semite slander do bat away criticism of Israel is not merelly disrespectful - it’s full on racist because it assumes “all Jews are the same” (which is the only way for Israel = Jews) - which is exactly the kind of thinking the Nazis had (complete with the concept of “race traitor” for those who don’t support their self-proclaimed leading of an entire etnic group, which is how we have cases of Holocaust Surviving Jews being slandered as anti-semite for comparing some of the actions of Israel with those of the Nazis)

            These guys have been Nazis for a long time hence why they’ve been using for decades Propaganda techniques straight out of Goebbels’ Little Book Of Tricks.