BREAKING: BBC INVESTIGATION REVEALS DISTURBING CRIMES INSIDE ISRAELI HOSPITALS.Medical workers in Israel have reported to the BBC that Palestinian detainees from Gaza are often shackled to hospital beds, blindfolded, sometimes kept naked, and forced to wear nappies, which one medic described as torture.
Whistle-blowers revealed that procedures in a military hospital are performed without painkillers, causing severe pain, and painkillers are used sparingly in public hospitals. Critically ill detainees in makeshift facilities are denied proper treatment due to reluctance from public hospitals to accept them. One detainee's leg was amputated after being denied treatment for an infection.
The Israeli army stated detainees are treated appropriately, but these reports are supported by a February report from Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, which highlights widespread human rights violations. The Sde Teiman military field hospital, set up to treat Gazan detainees, is central to these concerns, with patients universally restrained, leading to severe physical and psychological suffering.
Handcuffed and blindfoldedPatients at the Sde Teiman hospital are kept blindfolded and permanently shackled to their beds by all four limbs, according to several medics responsible for treating patients there.
They are also made to wear nappies, rather than use a toilet.
Israel’s army said in response that handcuffing of detainees in the Sde Teiman hospital was “examined individually and daily, and carried out in cases where the security risk requires it”.
It said that nappies [diapers] were used “only for detainees who have undergone medical procedures for which their movement is limited”.
But witnesses, including the facility’s senior anaesthiologist, Yoel Donchin, say both the use of nappies and handcuffs are universal in the hospital ward.
“The army create the patient to be 100% dependent, like a baby,” he said. “You are cuffed, you are with diapers, you need water, you need everything – it’s dehumanisation”.
Dr Donchin said there was no individual assessment of the need for restraints, and that even those patients who were unable to walk – for example, those with leg amputations – were handcuffed to the bed. He described the practice as “stupid”.
Two witnesses at the facility in the early weeks of the Gaza war told us that patients there were kept naked under the blankets.
One doctor with knowledge of conditions there said prolonged cuffing to beds would cause “huge suffering, horrible suffering”, describing it as “torture” and saying patients would start to feel pain after a few hours.
Others have spoken of the risk of long-term nerve-damage.
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