The head of Gaza’s largest hospital Mohammed Abu Salmiya has accused Israel of abuse and torture after being launched from a seven-month detention on Monday.
The Al-Shifa hospital director was amongst greater than 50 Palestinians launched and returned to Gaza for therapy, in keeping with an Israeli minister and a medical supply within the besieged territory.
Salmiya mentioned he was put by “severe torture” throughout his detention, which left him with a damaged thumb.
“Prisoners are subjected to all kinds of torture,” he instructed a press convention. “Several inmates died in interrogation centers and were deprived of food and medicine.”
“For two months no prisoner ate more than a loaf of bread a day,” mentioned Salmiya.
“Detainees were subjected to physical and psychological humiliation.”
The medical chief mentioned no cost had ever been made in opposition to him.
Israeli forces detained Salmiya throughout certainly one of a number of raids on Al-Shifa.
The hospital has largely been decreased to rubble by successive raids since Israel launched its genocidal battle on Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion.
Salmiya and the opposite freed detainees crossed again into Gaza from Israel simply east of Khan Younis, a medical supply on the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah instructed Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Five detainees have been admitted to Al-Aqsa hospital and the others have been despatched to hospitals in Khan Younis, the supply added.
An AFP correspondent at Deir al-Balah noticed some detainees in emotional reunions with their households.
The army mentioned it was “checking” reviews concerning the launch.
However, Israel’s far-right extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir confirmed the operation when he posted on X, previously Twitter, that Salmiya’s launch “with dozens of other … is security abandonment.”
Israel’s army accuses Hamas of utilizing hospitals within the Gaza Strip as a canopy for army operations. It raided Al-Shifa and different hospitals and claimed to have discovered tunnels and different infrastructure, with out offering any substantial proof.
The Palestinian resistance group, which has run the territory since 2007, denies the allegations.
The Gaza European hospital in Khan Younis mentioned the top of its orthopedic unit, Bassam Miqdad, was additionally amongst these freed Monday.
In May, Palestinian rights teams mentioned a senior Al-Shifa surgeon had died in an Israeli jail after being detained. The Israeli military mentioned it was unaware of the loss of life.
The battle was triggered by Hamas’s Oct. 7 incursion which resulted within the deaths of 1,195 folks, in keeping with an AFP tally primarily based on Israeli figures.
Israel’s genocidal battle, compared, has killed almost 38,000 folks, principally girls and youngsters, in keeping with knowledge from the Gazan Health Ministry.
Source: www.dailysabah.com