According to the director of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, a number of Palestinian inmates in Israeli detention facilities passed away as a result of medical malpractice, abuse, interrogation, and lack of medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohammad Abu Salmiya, who was freed on Monday, said at a news conference that he and the other Palestinians who were freed had left behind Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails “who experience difficult conditions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He continued by saying that the Palestinian prisoners receive little nourishment and are tortured physically and psychologically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Gaza prisoners lost (on average) 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of their weights because of lack of food,” stated Dr. Abu Salmiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that by failing to give the Palestinian inmates the necessary medical care, Israeli physicians and nurses contributed to their abuse and punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The (Israeli) doctor there beat the detainees, the nurse beat the detainees,” stated Abu Salmiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His request was for the foreign organizations that care about prisoners’ rights “to visit the prisoners and view the hard conditions they are enduring inside the prisons.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following several military operations over the previous few months, Israel seized over 54 Palestinians, including doctors, from Al-Shifa Hospital and other medical facilities. On Monday, Israel freed Abu Salmiya and these individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following an Israeli attack on the hospital, Abu Salmiya and a number of medical staff members were detained on Nov. 23 while going from Gaza City to the southern part of the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israel has come under international criticism for its ongoing, ruthless assault on Gaza following an attack by the Palestinian organization Hamas on October 7, 2023, in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to local health authorities, since then, at least 37,900 Palestinians have died\u2014mostly women and children\u2014and another 87,000 more have been injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large areas of Gaza are in ruins and there is a severe shortage of food, clean water, and medical supplies more than eight months into the Israeli-Gaza conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The International Court of Justice, which accused Israel of genocide, recently ordered Israel to immediately cease its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had sought safety from the conflict before it was attacked on May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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