Medical personnel in Israel have informed the news that Palestinian inmates from Gaza are frequently shackled to hospital beds, blindfolded, sometimes naked, and made to wear nappies, a practice one nurse described as “torture”.
A whistleblower described how surgeries at one military hospital were “routinely” performed without painkillers, inflicting “an unacceptable amount of pain” on inmates.
Another whistleblower claimed that painkillers were administered “selectively” and “in a very limited way” during an invasive medical operation on a Gazan detainee in a public hospital.
He further claimed that critically ill patients being housed in temporary military facilities were not receiving sufficient care due to public hospitals’ unwillingness to transfer and treat them.
One inmate was brought from Gaza for questioning by the Israeli army.
