At least 160 health workers in Gaza, including more than 20 doctors, are still believed to be in Israeli detention centers as the World Health Organization has expressed deep concerns about their well-being and safety. Masu.
Palestinian medical NGO Healthcare Worker Watch (HWW) said it has confirmed that 162 medical staff, including some of Gaza’s most senior doctors, remained in Israeli detention, and took them from hospital during the conflict. He said 24 more people were missing after they were gone. It has been reported.
HWW Director Muath Alser said that detention of many doctors, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare workers in Gaza is illegal under international law and by denial of medical expertise and care. He said it promotes civilian suffering.
“Israel’s target of healthcare workforce in this way has had a devastating impact on the provision of healthcare to Palestinians: widespread suffering, countless preventable deaths, and the whole healthcare specialty. There is an effective eradication,” said Alser.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has confirmed that 297 health workers from Gaza have been detained by Israeli forces since the war began, but the organization has been released or detained did not have updated data.
HWW says the data shows a slightly higher number, confirming that 339 health workers in Gaza have been detained by Israeli forces.
The WHO said “we are deeply concerned about the well-being and safety of Palestinian health workers in Israel’s detention” after reports that detainees in Israeli prison facilities were routinely exposed to violence and abuse. I stated.
The lawyer representing Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, whose Israeli military detention sparked international condemnation in December, has recently been detained for the first time in Ramala’s Offer Jail, and Abu Safiya. He said he was allowed to visit and said he had been tortured, beaten and denied treatment.
The Guardian and Arab reporters for investigative journalism also claimed they were taken from hospitals, ambulances and checkpoints in Gaza, seven people who were illegally transferred across the border to Israeli-run prison facilities and took the month We have heard detailed testimony from a senior doctor. He is released without guilty before torture, assault, hunger, and inhumane treatment.
“Frankly, no matter how much I said about what I went through while in custody, it’s just a small part of what really happened,” says director of Alsifa Hospital, who was detained for seven months in a previous Israeli prison. said Dr. Mohammed Abu Selmia. It will be released for free.
“I’m talking about clubs, beaten on the butt of a rifle and attacked by a dog. There was little or no food, personal hygiene, no soap in the cells, no water, toilet, no toilet paper That was… I saw someone dead there… I was beaten so badly that I couldn’t use my legs or take a walk. No one passed without torture.”
In a statement to the Guardian, Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebrees condemned the continued detention of medical personnel by Israel and said he was deeply concerned with their welfare.
The United Nations Human Rights Office (UNOCH) said Israel would soon need to release voluntarily held medical staff and “end all practices to force loss of failure, torture and other abuse.” I stated.
Unoch previously said it was “clearly” that detention of numerous health workers by the Israeli military has contributed to the collapse of Gaza’s health care system. Ajith Sunghay, director of duties for the occupied Palestinian territory of Unoch, said, “The person responsible for crimes under international law must explain.”
Under the Geneva Convention, a set of international law that polices the actions of the fighting parties, doctors must be permitted to provide medical care to those who need it, not targeted or attacked during a conflict. Not there.
Tedros said: In fact, under international humanitarian law, they should be actively protected. ”
Two of Gaza’s most senior doctors – Dr. Iyad Al Rantisi, consultant obstetrician and gynecologist at Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Dr. Adnan Al Barsh, head of orthopedics at Al Sifa Hospital. He is known to have died in custody.