Dr. Khaled Alser, a Palestinian surgeon, shares his harrowing experience of abduction and torture at the hands of Israeli forces. Detained for seven months in Israeli prisons, he describes severe abuses, including beatings, denial of medical care, and sexual assaults of prisoners. His situation reflects a broader trend documented by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which details systemic abuses against Palestinian medical professionals. Alser emphasizes that many of the imprisoned individuals are civilians, highlighting the troubling impact of conflict on healthcare workers who seek to provide care without political agendas.
Most of the prisoners I met inside the prison are civilians or civil workers... We as healthcare workers, we don't have any agenda against anyone. We just provide medical care.
Israel systematically imprisoned and abused Palestinian doctors and medical staff from Gaza, as detailed in a report by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
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