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.”

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.”

      • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7•9 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.

          • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0•9 months ago

            .ml has 50k users, and hexbear has 27k.

            Assuming every single one of those people side with Palestinians and also the CCP, and are also not bots or duplicate accounts(which is absolutely not the case), that’s only 77k. Or 2.5% of the population of the U.S.

            That’s very few people like I said.

            And if you only go off of active users in the last 6 months(which we should given that lots of people will have made accounts, then later left due to disagreement or lack of interest), it’s only around 8k people. So again, very few people.

  • @medgremlin@midwest.socialEnglish
    38•9 months ago

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

        • @BaldManGoomba@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6•9 months ago

          Why would I want a militarized nation who benefits from stoking war across the world to succeed. From shipping arms to our south destabilizing all those countries so we have essentially 2nd class citizens to do our labor. To literally imprisoning people and using them as slaves and Supporting genocide. Why would I want this country to succeed.

          This country was set up for oligarchs, technocrats, and monopolistic from the beginning. This country was setup to strip it of its natural resources to make people rich. Why would I want that to succeed.

          I want the country to fail so its citizens won’t be complacent and comfortable. So they demand country wide change all the way to its roots. Progressiveness is nice but I am afraid they only just give us barely enough to keep us complacent

        • KaryoplasmaEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          It’s more of an expression of frustration and being generally displeased than it is an actual wish.

  • @Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
    14•9 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.worldEnglish
      5•9 months ago

      Some people want a better life for themselves and others

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

  • DoomEnglish
    3•9 months ago

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