Israeli doctors share prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teach interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and even actively engage in acts of torture themselves.
The family of Farouq Issa, 30, says he was arrested by Israeli forces and thrown into administrative detention as a healthy young man. But four months later, he returned a ghost of himself, and doctors say he has just days left to live.
Thousands of lives are at risk as Al-Shifa Hospital becomes non-operational, with ICUs and incubators shutting down due to lack of fuel, and medical staff and patients trapped waiting to die. Israeli forces continue to shell hospitals in north Gaza.
Walid Daqqah’s health continues to deteriorate inside Ramleh prison’s death chambers. Yet “despite all the roughness and challenges of prison, Walid keeps saying, ‘I am still kind and loving'” says his brother, As’ad Daqqah.
Israel punitively added two years to Walid Daqqah’s sentence of 37 years, and he has now been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. Having completed serving his original sentence, Walid’s family is demanding his release before it is too late.
Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan on how the Israeli healthcare system discriminates against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territory.
Abdul-Razeq Farraj’s treatment for a malignant tumor is being delayed by the Israel Prison Services — part of a broader systematic Israeli policy of medical negligence of Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinian political prisoner Nasser Abu Hmeid, 50, died in Israeli custody on Tuesday morning, following a bout with cancer and months of “medical negligence” on part of Israeli authorities, according to his family and Palestinian prisoners groups.