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”.

  • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    657·
    8 months ago

    I saw a video of a Gaza medic taking a rifle off a dying Hamas fighter and handing it to another Hamas fighter. Shouldn’t Israel be taking security measures when Hamas regularly disguises is fighters as medics?

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      397·
      8 months ago

      That’s really cool that you saw that one video and now everyone in Gaza is actually Hamas even the babies and 5 year old children are Hamas.

      Why did israel claim there were hostage bodies in the hospital and they didn’t find any? Care to respond to that instead of the irrelevant video you saw?

      • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        448·
        8 months ago

        I’m not surprised that you’re putting your psychotic mis-interpretation onto what I said. Unfortunately it’s a refrain that I see time and time again from Hamas supporters, emotional misinformation instead of actually debating the point.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          266·
          8 months ago

          The point of attacking this hospital were “bodies of hostages”. Where are those?

          You want to pivot real badly to something irrelevant because you know you cannot possibly defend israel’s Genocidal attack on a now proven innocent hospital.

    • dlatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      343·
      8 months ago

      So taking a weapon off a dying person (presumably to help the dying person, which medics tend to do) and giving it to someone nearby for safe keeping makes you a fighter now? Hell the medic might have given the weapon to the hamas fighter to protect him doing his (geneva-convention protected) job while the oh-so-moral IDF was firing at them.

      But of course, this one video totally warrants the destruction of several hospitals and the torture and murder of doctors and patients. What a bullshit argument.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      265·
      8 months ago

      Look, even if your logic held, even if these people were all Hamas fighters, this treatment of prisoners of war is a war crime and violation of the Geneva convention.

    • catch22English
      192·
      8 months ago

      Should Palestines be taking security measures when being slaughtered by a vile genocidal racist fascist ethnostate?

        • catch22English
          1·
          8 months ago

          Well that’s good you support their fight against Israel. I’d be too afraid to go against all those zealots with all that American military hardware and id guess you would too.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      8 months ago

      Ahh, the good old Nazi myth of “group guilt” were everybody of an etnic group is guilty by association and hence it justifies the invaders exterminating them all in “self-defense”.

      Zionists are full-on Nazis.

      • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        8 months ago

        Ah the good ol “Israelis should just stop defending themselves so they can get exterminated in peace” argument from the pro-Hamas wing.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          8 months ago

          Love how you managed to fit not one, not two, but actually three pieces of NAZI-style argumentation in one single sentence:

          • You doubled down on using Hamas and their deeds to blame all Palestinians, using once again with not a shred of shame a variant of the NAZI myth of common etnic guilt.
          • The good old “if you’re not with us then you’re with our enemies” so beloved of Fascists, this one in the NAZI “you must be with the worst of our enemies” variant.
          • The very same logic of “we have to kill them to defend our race” that the NAZIs used to justify the mass murder of Jews.

          Zionist brainwashing with NAZI-style extreme-racism and etnic-victimhood mythology to justify aggressive action is really a sight to see.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      83·
      8 months ago

      Medical personnel are allowed to join combat, it just means they lose their protection. But I don’t think handling weapons is a “direct part in hostilities”.

      Not that Israel has been avoiding shooting medical personnel, bombing hospitals, etc. anyway.