Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention
This tracks with everything we’ve heard from Palestinians reporting from Gaza and Gazan children who’ve watched their own parents be taken away by IDF soldiers.
Then you hear the U.N. reports about the IDF sexually assaulting female prisoners and locking them in cages. The reports about bodies of Palestinians found in mass graves—some zip-tied, some showing signs of torture, some showing signs that they were alive when they were buried.
This is why people in the media and on the right complaining about Israel having to release so many Palestinian “prisoners” gets under my skin. You know most of the people they’ve imprisoned did nothing wrong, never got a trial, and are only there for the crime of being born Palestinian. It’s disgusting.
Bombing and destroying their hospitals wasn’t enough? I guess you heard doctors were performing c-sections without anesthesia, amputating the limbs of children without anesthesia or pain relief, and that was just too much. Palestinians were getting medical treatment without their hospitals and we can’t have that!
I apologize. I wasn’t planning to go off and rant about this. It just happens sometimes, as you already know if you’ve been keeping up. ?♀️ Its just exhausting! This story does not surprise me at all. Please be sure to continue reading on the Intercept to thank them for the work they do putting out stories like this one. Thank you.
THE INTERCEPT
It’s been two months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.
Before late March, they had been in regular contact — or as regular as the shredded communication infrastructure would allow. Al Serr had created a telemedicine WhatsApp group where he and Osaid, a surgical resident in the U.S., recruited doctors from stateside, the U.K., and Europe to give advice to their overstretched colleagues in Gaza.
“He reported on a gunshot injury in a 70-year old,” Osaid said, of Al Serr. “It was in her head. And really, there were no neurosurgeons at that time.”
“He was sharing those cases, and he was asking for help,” Osaid went on. “It was like, ‘Is there any neurosurgeon that can help me? How can I fix this?’”
Al Serr was a natural vessel for the collective medical knowledge of the group chat. “He always wanted to help out, always liked to use his hands, to kind of fix a problem and have an immediate impact,” according to Osaid.
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