Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

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Eight months into the Israel-Hamas war, the Israeli government is under pressure over accusations of inhumane treatment at a military field hospital.

Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. These are some of the conditions at Israel's only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained by the military in the Gaza Strip, three people who have worked there told the Associated Press, confirming similar accounts from human rights groups.

The military disputed the accounts provided to AP, saying patients were handcuffed “in cases where the security risk requires it” and removed when they caused injury. Patients are rarely diapered, it said. Hamas on Oct. 7 killed around 1,200 people and abducted about 250. More than 36,370 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment and ground assaults, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Dr.

 

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