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Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New Report (www.democracynow.org)

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We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse.

The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers.

The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers. “We’re really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities,” says Ansari, who says evidence is mounting of a “systematic pattern of ill-treatment and abuse.”

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 90 points 2 months ago

[-] garpujol@discuss.online 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s an understatement…

It’s too bad the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region don’t have a war going on so they can have their genocide highlighted.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The difference is, western nations aren't giving China billions of dollars for the express purpose of bombing uyghur civilians. There is still the issue of continuing trade, but then you're getting into a game of passing the buck. The people blame the politicians who blame the corps who blame the people. Nobody wants to be the first to take responsibility for it.

I think you'll find very few people who are against Israel's actions but support China's actions.

[-] bigFab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Exactly. Care first our own guilt in genocide before lecturing other countries.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We should absolutely be working on both. But the genocide of palestinians is definitely the easier one to effect at the moment.

[-] garpujol@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago

Every Lemmy.ml and every hexbear.

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[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 38 points 2 months ago

These are incredibly important reports to publish and spread awareness of....but I kind of wish I hadn't read them today.

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Fuck Israel and their US supporters. I hope their country falls.

[-] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

As a US citizen I hope my country fails too

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Utterly disgusting.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 14 points 2 months ago

The fuck?

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

In Israel, they protest when you get punished for r*ping Palestinians to death.

In America, they wish criminals will be sent to prison so they can be r*ped.

These are severely broken and disgusting countries that shouldn’t exist.

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Some people want a better life for themselves and others

Conservatives just want a worse life for people they feel superior to

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago

Israelis are rapists confirmed spread the word. Israeli people are rapists and protect rapists

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