Dozens of accounts by released Palestinian detainees describe torture, ill-treatment, and extreme humiliation as permanent features of life in Israeli custody.
Over the next few days, UN Human Rights - OPT will document "a day in the life of a Palestinian in Israeli detention."
Read our brief on patterns of detention, torture, and ill-treatment in the occupied Palestinian Territory: https://t.co/h8CGczXbR8
#Gaza: Doctors Without Borders staff have not been spared from the violence.
Our colleagues have been shot in their tents, lost family members and fled their homes: link
This is not a ceasefire.
To all international health and humanitarian organizations:
Faced with an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, we issue this urgent cry to save Gaza’s infants who are facing death from the simplest preventable diseases. The case of the infant Osama Sahloul, who is less than 20 days old and fighting chickenpox amid severe overcrowding, a shortage of clean water, and a lack of vaccines and medical care, is a stark example of thousands of children whose health is deteriorating under the conditions of the blockade.
إلى كافة المنظمات الدولية الصحية والإنسانية:
أمام كارثة إنسانية غير مسبوقة، ن��لق هذه الصرخة العاجلة لإنقاذ أطفال غزة الرضع الذين يواجهون الموت بأبسط الأمراض القابلة للوقاية. إن حالة الرضيع أسامة سحلول، الذي لم يتجاوز 20 عاماً—عذراً، 20 يوماً—من عمره ويصارع مرض جدري الماء وسط الاكتظاظ الشديد ونقص المياه النظيفة وغياب اللقاحات والرعاية الطبية، إنما هي نموذج صارخ لآلاف الأطفال الذين تقهقر صحتهم ظروف الحصار.
Following an Israeli attack on her home on October 11, 2024, Najwa woke up weeks later from a coma in a hospital.
Her life as she knew it had changed forever, as she learned that not only did she lose her eye, but also her beloved daughter.
🔗: https://t.co/FYs4nFaVkX
Imprisoned Gaza pediatrician Hussam Abu Safia still enduring severe torture in Israeli prison
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According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia continues to be subjected to exceptionally harsh torture after nearly 18 months in Israeli custody.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reports that Israeli interrogators are attempting to "coerce him into confessing to offences he did not commit, while he remains imprisoned under Israel’s so-called 'Unlawful Combatant' law."
The Palestinian doctor remains imprisoned without charge or trial alongside at least 14 other medical doctors from Gaza, compounding the collapse of the enclave's healthcare infrastructure. Since the beginning of the genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation forces have killed approximately 1,700 healthcare workers and detained hundreds more.
Many of these medical professionals were targeted after refusing to abandon their hospitals and patients, marking a systematic campaign to dismantle Gaza's healthcare network and forcibly displace the native population.
The battle for cancer patients in #Gaza is no longer only against cancer.. It is also against shortages of essential medicines and barriers preventing them from accessing lifesaving treatment
"Oxfam denuncia un'escalation: da ottobre 2023 il numero di civili palestinesi uccisi dall'esercito israeliano e dai coloni in Cisgiordania ha superato quello registrato nei 17 anni precedenti, con oltre 1.200 vittime, tra cui quasi 270 bambini."
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Palestinian authorities must immediately stop all forms of torture and other ill-treatment of Palestinians detained for "security reasons" and end all arbitrary or unlawful detention. Detainees must be treated with humanity and respect for their dignity.
They must also conduct prompt, thorough, independent, impartial and effective investigations into all reports of torture and ill-treatment of detainees and hold perpetrators to account.
Full statement: https://t.co/HVyTyIwrLw
In April 2024, a small number of physicians who were able to enter the Sde Teiman detention facility decided they couldn’t remain silent about the horrors they had witnessed there. They first approached Israel’s Ministry of Health and Medical Association, urging them to intervene and put an end to the severe violations of medical ethics taking place there.
When these efforts failed to produce meaningful change, the physicians turned to PHRI and chose to speak out publicly. They described patients being denied critical care; wounded people treated while held in four-point restraints; a medical facility that failed to meet basic standards; and irreversible harm caused by appalling custody conditions and inadequate care. They also reported deaths among detainees held at Sde Teiman.
By April 2024, more than 1,000 Palestinians from Gaza were being held at Sde Teiman, many of them kept restrained around the clock for weeks or even months. The field hospital established at the site in November 2023, intended as an alternative to public hospitals after Israel’s health minister at the time called for Palestinian detainees to be denied treatment there, failed to meet adequate medical standards. As a result, thousands of detainees were deprived of decent health care and, in dozens of cases, of treatment for life-threatening conditions.
Appeals by PHRI and other human rights organizations were ignored by Israeli institutions — until the physicians spoke out. Immediately after going public with their testimonies, the Israeli military began clearing out Sde Teiman. Hundreds were transferred to other facilities, while others were released back to Gaza. By July 2024, fewer than 30 detainees remained. By October, the field hospital had been shut down.
The testimonies of just a few physicians helped bring about changes that impacted thousands and saved hundreds of lives. Help us spread the word about First Line, our confidential reporting channel, and join us in ensuring that healthcare workers can always put the protection of human life first.
La situazione a Gaza continua a peggiorare.
Ogni giorno sembra segnare un nuovo limite. Ogni giorno quel limite viene superato.
Il cessate il fuoco sta fallendo. Da nord a sud della Striscia, nuovi bombardamenti hanno colpito aree dove vivono famiglie già stremate da mesi di guerra. Tra le vittime ci sono anche bambini.
La popolazione continua a pagare un prezzo altissimo: famiglie senza acqua, bambini senza cure, persone costrette a vivere ogni giorno in condizioni estreme.
Mentre diamo voce alla popolazione palestinese, affinché la comunità internazionale agisca, continuiamo a intervenire insieme ai partner locali per portare acqua potabile, kit igienico-sanitari e altri aiuti essenziali alle famiglie sfollate.
Per continuare a farlo abbiamo bisogno anche del tuo aiuto: la tua donazione contribuisce a garantire aiuti e a fare la differenza per chi ha perso tutto.
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Red Cross demanded to visit Hussam Abu Safiya and Marwan Al-Hams amid torture reports, concern for their lives in Israeli custody
https://t.co/KqiFtrjGPQ