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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      4 months ago

      Those are your words not mine.

      Send me some screenshots. Make sure they have the names of the people and their photographs without having a mask on. Because saying something anonymously, and saying it with your name on it is a lot different.

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          4 months ago

          We are getting off topic.

          Please say: The Chinese government is responsible for killing thousands of citizens during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

          It’s just a litmus test.

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              4 months ago

              lol, nice try. That’s like copy and paste response I got from another user a few days ago. You guys got like a library of responses you like to use?

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                  4 months ago

                  It’s like talking to the same person, with the same tone, and the same responses over and over.

                  Curious.