Medical staff in Israel have told the BBC that Palestinian prisoners from Gaza are often kept tied to hospital beds, blindfolded, naked and forced to wear nappies, a practice which one doctor said amounted to “torture”. One whistleblower reported that medical procedures at a military hospital were “usually” performed without painkillers, causing “unacceptable pain” to prisoners. Another informant claimed that painkillers were used “selectively” and “in a very limited way” during an invasive medical procedure on a Gazan detainee in a public hospital. He also said that seriously ill patients held in makeshift military facilities are deprived of proper treatment due to the reluctance of public hospitals to receive and treat them. One detainee, who was taken from Gaza for questioning by the Israeli army and later released, told the BBC he had to have his leg amputated because he was refused treatment for an infected wound. A senior doctor, who worked in the military […]
Source: News Beast
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