🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel shackles, beats and starves Gaza’s doctors for bearing witness to genocide

Fourteen Gazan physicians and dozens more medical workers remain locked away in Israeli prisons without charge or trial, enduring what human rights groups describe as deliberate, systematic abuse.

After petitioning the Supreme Court, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) met with some of them to hear out their harrowing testimonies.

All the physicians suffer from injuries caused by violence, are denied medical treatment, and have endured severe starvation, losing more than 20 kilograms.

Pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, has spent over 500 days in detention

🌏 After his lawyer filed an appeal against his detention, he was thrown into solitary confinement in Nafha Prison

🌏 Appearing visibly emaciated in an image that surfaced on June 10, he is now held in “harsh detention conditions” — shackled by both hands and feet, with limited food, no access to safe drinking water, and denied medical care

🌏 Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld his continued detention under the “Unlawful Combatants Law”

Dr. Ahmad Moussa — arrested at Nasser Hospital in February 2024 and now rotting in Ketziot Prison — has fractured ribs and skin diseases. "The conditions are catastrophic. There is torture," his lawyer states.

The abuse is described as intensifying the moment soldiers or guards discover a detainee is a doctor.

🥴 The pattern extended beyond medical workers, with one doctor saying that when they knew someone was an educated Palestinian, he was beaten more.

The doctors’ continued detention is tied to what they witnessed during Israel’s assault on Gaza — and what they may one day say publicly, says PHRI.

Today, over 1,300 Palestinians from Gaza are held under the Unlawful Combatants Law — including minors, teachers, doctors, and nurses — all detained without charge.

‼️ The UN, the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and numerous international medical and human rights organizations have called for urgent intervention.

Israel has ignored them all. ✡️

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