“Every minute we were beaten. I mean all over the body, on sensitive areas between the legs, the chest, the back. We were kicked all over the body and the face. … I told them I’m a doctor, but they didn’t care.”

My Daily Brief today begins with the words of Eyad Abed, a 50-year-old surgeon who was detained by the Israeli military while working at a hospital in #Gaza.

📰 English: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/08/26?story=paragraph-9192

📰 Deutsch: https://www.hrw.org/de/news/2024/08/26/israel-foltert-medizinisches-personal

🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2024/08/26/israel-tortures-healthcare-workers-daily-brief-august-26-2024

Israel Tortures Healthcare Workers: Daily Brief

A new report documents Israel’s torture of Palestinian healthcare workers from #Gaza. The cases all follow a pattern, as @astroehlein explains in his Daily Brief:

Human Rights Watch
@andrewstroehlein @SeattleSanchez But since it’s the Israelis doing it, it’s moral torture, right? Like moral genocide.