‘They tied our hands behind our backs, on our knees, our heads on the floors…thirteen hours without food, water, or the bathroom even.’

Far from being an isolated incident, Doctor Rebecca Inglis, an intensive care doctor and co-founder of Gaza Medic Voices, says that the attacks on healthcare workers are systemic. ‘The use of violence and degrading treatment against doctors, nurses and paramedics are recurring themes in the testimonies we have collected.’ Inglis says detainees are being denied family contact, medical care and legal counsel. ‘There is a complete lack of transparency regarding their whereabouts. This is in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.’

She describes horrific examples of torture and doctors being ‘specifically targeted’ by Israeli forces. ‘They were forced to strip. There were a variety of forms of humiliation. They were getting hit in the face, there were dogs involved, there was electricity involved — absolutely horrendous things were happening,’ she says.

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