Haaretz newspaper revealed Thursday that an Israeli doctor sent a letter to Israeli War and Health Ministers reporting detention conditions Gazan detainees have undergone compromise their health and violate medical ethics.
The doctor broke his silence by describing that the prisoners live “deplorable conditions” and “routine” amputations due to handcuff injuries.
“Judt this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event,” the doctor said.
He also wrote that inappropriate care at the detention facility has led to “complications and sometimes even in the patient’s death,” adding that this makes all medical teams and those in charge of them in the health and War ministries, complicit in the violation of Israeli law.
The doctor clarified that the prisoners are being fed through straws, defecate in diapers and are held [in] constant restraints, which violate medical ethics and the law.
A medical source, who spoke to CNN on Thursday also confirmed that all the Gazan detainees they saw at the field hospital had all four limbs shackled, which the source stressed increases the risk of blood clotting and other health concerns.
The detainees were blindfolded and that at least three patients they saw were wearing diapers, according to the medical source, highlighting the the systematic “dehumanizing” of detainees at the field hospital, which is as a large “tent” that is “not insulated” from the elements.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel report on Sde Teiman documented ‘ethical failures’ at the field hospital, explaining that Israeli forces required all detained persons to remain handcuffed and blindfolded at all times, including during medical treatment.
Gazan released prisoners’ reports indicated that Gaza residents held at this military facility endured harsh conditions, being restrained with their hands behind their backs and occasionally bound to a fence for prolonged periods, spanning entire and consecutive days.
“These circumstances lead to substantial physical and psychological harm,” the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel report added.
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