Torturas en Israel. Participación médica. Torture in Israel. Medical participation ESP/ENG
¿Dónde está el médico? Con los torturadores Where is the doctor? With the torturers
Noticias-actualizaciones al final del texto en inglés y español 7 feb, 11 feb, 18 feb, 25 feb, 26 feb, 3 april-abril, 17 april-abril, 26 april-abril
ESPAÑOL 30 enero 2025
Torturas en Israel. Participación médica: torturadores (Israel) y torturados (Palestina). ¿Dónde está el médico? Si hay torturas sistemáticas, el médico está con los torturadores.
Profesionales de la sanidad por Palestina, España (HealthWorkers4PalestineSpain)
Resumen
Las atrocidades que comete Israel contra Palestina son expresión de políticas coloniales que buscan el apropiamiento de bienes muebles e inmuebles y la “anulación de la población originaria”.
El régimen de apartheid y ocupación de Israel está inextricablemente ligado a las violaciones de derechos humanos.
Es decir, son políticas que pretenden eliminar toda resistencia al arrebatar la dignidad, la solidaridad y la ternura, también el arte y la cultura, pues, para establecer un régimen colonial, no basta con matar, hay que aterrorizar y degradar a personas y poblaciones. Ello se logra, en mucho, con la detención ilegal y la tortura sistemática de miles de individuos.
Cuando hay tortura sistemática es imprescindible la presencia médica, como se ha documentado múltiples veces en Israel. Y la cuestión no es de profesionales sádicos y/o degenerados, sino algo institucional, del cuerpo sanitario israelí y, en último extremo de toda la sociedad israelí.
El personal de sanidad israelí participa de múltiples formas en las prácticas degradantes contra presos palestinos, desde la tortura en las propias prisiones al incumplimiento de normas de obligado cumplimiento en los hospitales israelíes a los que se llevan a pacientes presos, incluyendo la participación en trasplantes ilegales (piel, cóclea, córnea, rinón, etc).
En concreto, respecto a las torturas en prisiones y centros de detención, los médicos israelíes cooperan en
1/ la valoración inicial (ignorando en muchos casos las malas situaciones de ingreso, desde enfermedades a lesiones),
2/ la falta de documentación y registro de los daños causados por la tortura,
3/ la prestación de servicios de baja calidad y la atención superficial,
4/ el compartir información con los torturadores,
5/ la no denuncia de las torturas y
6/ la práctica de todo ello buscando el anonimato.
La destrucción sistemática de las instalaciones sanitarias y la detención, tortura y asesinato deliberado de profesionales de la sanidad de Palestina por parte de Israel obedece a un plan colonialista general de genocidio y “disolución” de las estructuras y los determinantes que ayudan a vivir como humanos en sociedad, un plan para debilitar el “pegamento” que nos hace personas.
Tal sociedad amoral que tolera el aniquilamiento y la pérdida de derechos humanos de otra sociedad es una sociedad enferma que envenena la vida de sus propios ciudadanos.
La sociedad colonizadora israelí no puede escapar a lo que ocurre en la colonia (la ocupada Palestina) y la ideología de las leyes racistas, la normalización del despojo y la brutalidad opresora no se queda allí, vuelve y contamina el pensamiento, las artes, la justicia y la vida del propio Israel.
Israel es un peligro para sí mismo, para Palestina, y para la Humanidad.
La tortura carece de ética, es una brutalidad sin sentido, y además resulta ineficaz (la información que se obtiene es la que se quiere, aunque sea falsa forzada por la desesperación).
El fin no justifica los medios, nunca, NUNCA. Ni siquiera en “la guerra contra el terrorismo”.
Lamentablemente, ni se consideran ni enseñan en los estudios de pre y postgrado de ciencias de la salud ni la “Declaración de Tokio”, de la Asociación Médica Mundial (contra la participación de médicos en la tortura y trato degradante a personas detenidas y/o encarceladas), ni el “Protocolo de Estambul”, ni las “Reglas Nelson Mandela” de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (“Manual para la investigación y documentación eficaces de la tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes”, “Reglas Mínimas de las Naciones Unidas para el Tratamiento de los Reclusos”). En síntesis: «No utilizaré mis conocimientos médicos para violar los derechos humanos y libertades civiles, ni siquiera bajo amenaza».
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/publications/training8rev1sp.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/Nelson_Mandela_Rules-S-ebook.pdf
MENORES
Los menores palestinos (menores de 18 años, hay entre 500 y 1.000 niños recluidos en centros de detención militar israelíes cada año) en el sistema de detención militar israelí sufren abusos físicos y emocionales: cuatro de cada cinco (86%) son golpeados y el 69% son sometidos a cacheos desnudos, según un nuevo estudio de Save the Children. Casi la mitad (42%) sufre lesiones en el momento de la detención, como heridas de bala y fracturas óseas. Algunos denuncian violencia de carácter sexual y otros son trasladados a los tribunales o entre centros de detención en pequeñas jaulas, según la organización de defensa de los derechos de la infancia.
NOTA
Las naciones “occidentales” apoyan a Israel desde su fundación en 1948 como demuestra la tolerancia a su incumplimiento sistemático de los acuerdos y leyes internacionales. También apoyan el genocidio actual, incluyendo la “demonización” que justifica la destrucción selectiva de las instalaciones sanitarias y el asesinato, encarcelamiento y tortura de profesionales de la sanidad.
Conviene tener presente, por ejemplo, una enmienda israelí que se aprobó en la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud (OMS, Organización Mundial de la Salud) el 31 de mayo de 2024. La enmienda israelí «pide la liberación inmediata e incondicional de todos los rehenes retenidos en Gaza, incluidos niños, mujeres y ancianos, y condena el uso, por parte de grupos armados, de instalaciones sanitarias, incluidos hospitales y ambulancias, que pone en peligro a la población civil». La enmienda recibió un amplio respaldo, desde aliados tradicionales, como Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Alemania, hasta países que suelen oponerse a Israel en foros internacionales, como Islandia, España y Filipinas
https://www.jns.org/israeli-amendment-surprisingly-passes-world-health-assembly/
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/wha-approves-two-resolutions-on-gaza-crisis-that-slam-israel-hamas-and-call-for-hostage-release/ Una enmienda propuesta por Israel, que obtuvo la aprobación por 50 votos a favor y 54 en contra en el sorprendente resultado de una votación de los Estados miembros, pedía la liberación de los rehenes por parte de Hamás, además de condenar la militarización de las instalaciones sanitarias de Gaza.
77.ª ASAMBLEA MUNDIAL DE LA SALUD Punto 20 del orden del día provisional A77/B/CONF./3 28 de mayo de 2024 Situación sanitaria en el territorio palestino ocupado, incluida Jerusalén oriental, y en el Golán sirio ocupado Enmienda propuesta por Israel al proyecto de decisión recogido en el documento A77/B/CONF./1 Nuevo párrafo 26. Pide la liberación inmediata e incondicional de todos los rehenes retenidos en Gaza, entre ellos niños, mujeres y personas mayores, y condena el uso, por parte de grupos armados, de los establecimientos de salud, incluidos hospitales y ambulancias, que pone en peligro a la pobla- ción civil.
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA77/A77_BCONF3-en.pdf
1 junio 2024 La Asamblea Mundial de la Salud acuerda un conjunto de enmiendas de amplio alcance y repercusión para mejorar el Reglamento Sanitario Internacional y fija un plazo para concluir las negociaciones sobre la propuesta de acuerdo sobre pandemias.
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Torturas en Israel. Participación médica: torturadores (Israel) y torturados (Palestina).
Referencias fundamentales
The Killing, Detention, and Torture of HCWs in Gaza
https://healthcareworkerswatch.org/
Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/26/israel-palestinian-healthcare-workers-tortured
War Crimes in the Interrogation Chamber: The Israeli Systematic Policy of Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, Unlawful Deportation, and Denial of Fair Trial of Palestinian Detainees
https://stoptorture.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FIDH-PCATI_Art.-15-communication-June-2022.pdf
Doctoring the Evidence – Abandoning the Victim
https://www.ifhhro.org/news/israel-prison-doctors-and-complicity-in-torture-and-ill-treatment/
Israel must end mass incomunnication, detention and torture of Palestians from Gaza
Medical ethics and the detention of Gaza residents since the start of the 2023 war. An ethical opinion paper.
https://www.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5954_medical_ethics_Report_Eng.pdf
How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/how-israeli-prison-doctors-assist-in-the-torture-of-palestinian-detainees/
Pattern of Israeli attacks in Gaza hospitals rasises grave concern
Action must be taken on alleged complicity of Israeli doctors in torture
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
News-updates at the end of the English text, Feb 7, Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 25, Feb 26
ENGLISH 30th January 2025
Torture in Israel. Medical participation: torturers (Israel) and tortured (Palestine). Where is the doctor? If there is systematic torture, the doctor is with the torturers.
HealthWorkers4PalestineSpain
Summary
The atrocities that Israel commits against Palestine are an expression of colonial policies that seek the appropriation of movable and immovable property and the “annihilation of the native population.”
Israel’s apartheid and occupation regime and policies are inextricably linked to human rights violations. In other words, they are policies that seek to eliminate all resistance by taking away dignity, solidarity and tenderness, as well as art and culture, because, to establish a colonial regime, it is not enough to kill, it is necessary to terrorize and degrade people and populations. This is achieved, in large part, with the illegal detention and systematic torture of thousands of persons.
When there is systematic torture, medical presence is essential, as has been documented multiple times in Israel. And the issue is not one of sadistic and/or degenerate professionals, but something institutional, of the Israeli health corps and, ultimately, of the entire Israeli society.
Israeli health personnel participate in multiple ways in degrading practices against Palestinian prisoners, from torture in the prisons themselves to the non-compliance with mandatory regulations in Israeli hospitals where imprisoned patients are taken, including participation in illegal transplants (skin, cochlea, cornea, kidney, etc).
Specifically, regarding torture in prisons and detention centers, Israeli doctors cooperate in
1/ the initial assessment (ignoring in many cases the bad conditions of admission, from illness to injuries),
2/ the lack of documentation and registration of the damage caused by torture,
3/ the provision of low-quality services and superficial care,
4/ the sharing of information with the torturers,
5/ the failure to report torture and
6/ the practice of all this seeking anonymity.
The systematic destruction of health facilities and the deliberate detention, torture and murder of Palestinian health professionals by Israel is part of a general colonialist plan of genocide and “dissolution” of the structures and determinants that help us live as humans in society, a plan to dilute the “glue” that makes us human.
Such an amoral society that tolerates the annihilation and loss of human rights of another society is a sick society that poisons the lives of its own citizens.
The Israeli colonizing society cannot escape what happens in the colony (occupied Palestine) and the ideology of racist laws, the normalization of dispossession and oppressive brutality does not stop there, it returns and contaminates the thought, the arts, justice and life of Israel itself.
Israel is a danger to itself, to Palestine, and to Humanity.
Torture is unethical, it is senseless brutality, and it is also ineffective (the information obtained is what is wanted, even if it is false and forced by desperation).
The end does not justify the means, never, EVER. Not even in “the war against terrorism.”
Unfortunately, neither the “Tokyo Declaration” of the World Medical Association (against the participation of doctors in torture and degrading treatment of detained and/or imprisoned persons), nor the “Istanbul Protocol”, nor the “Nelson Mandela Rules” of the United Nations (“Manual for the effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”, “United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners”) are considered or taught in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in health sciences.
In short: “I will not use my medical knowledge to violate human rights and civil liberties, even under threat.”
https://nil.org.pl/uploaded_files/art_1585656581_wma-declaration-of-tokyo.pdf
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/publications/training8rev1sp.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/Nelson_Mandela_Rules-E-ebook.pdf
CHILDREN
Palestinian children (there are between 500 and 1000 children held in Israeli military detention each year) in the Israel military detention system face physical and emotional abuse, with four out of five (86%) of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched, according to new research by Save the Children. Nearly half (42%) are injured at the point of arrest, including gunshot wounds and broken bones. Some report violence of a sexual nature and some are transferred to court or between detention centres in small cages, the child rights organisation said.
NOTE
“Western” nations have supported Israel since its founding in 1948, as demonstrated by their tolerance of its systematic failure to comply with international agreements and laws.
They also support the ongoing genocide, including the “demonization” that justifies the targeted destruction of health facilities and the murder, imprisonment and torture of health professionals.
It is worth bearing in mind, for example, an Israeli amendment that was adopted at the World Health Assembly (WHO, World Health Organization) on May 31, 2024. The Israeli amendment “calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held in Gaza, including children, women and the elderly, and condemns the use by armed groups of health facilities, including hospitals and ambulances, which endangers the civilian population.”
The amendment received broad support, from traditional allies such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, to countries that often oppose Israel in international forums, such as Iceland, Spain and the Philippines
https://www.jns.org/israeli-amendment-surprisingly-passes-world-health-assembly/
An amendment proposed by Israel, which won approval 50-54 in the surprise outcome of a member state vote, called for the Hamas release of hostages, as well as condemning the militarization of Gaza’s health facilities. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/wha-approves-two-resolutions-on-gaza-crisis-that-slam-israel-hamas-and-call-for-hostage-release/
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA77/A77_BCONF3-en.pdf
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Torturas en Israel. Participación médica: torturadores (Israel) y torturados (Palestina).
Key references
The Killing, Detention, and Torture of HCWs in Gaza
https://healthcareworkerswatch.org/
Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/26/israel-palestinian-healthcare-workers-tortured
War Crimes in the Interrogation Chamber: The Israeli Systematic Policy of Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, Unlawful Deportation, and Denial of Fair Trial of Palestinian Detainees
https://stoptorture.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FIDH-PCATI_Art.-15-communication-June-2022.pdf
Doctoring the Evidence – Abandoning the Victim
https://www.ifhhro.org/news/israel-prison-doctors-and-complicity-in-torture-and-ill-treatment/
Israel must end mass incomunnication, detention and torture of Palestians from Gaza
Medical ethics and the detention of Gaza residents since the start of the 2023 war. An ethical opinion paper.
https://www.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5954_medical_ethics_Report_Eng.pdf
How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/how-israeli-prison-doctors-assist-in-the-torture-of-palestinian-detainees/
Pattern of Israeli attacks in Gaza hospitals rasises grave concern
Action must be taken on alleged complicity of Israeli doctors in torture
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
News-updates Noticias-actualizaciones
7 feb 2025
Israel accused of torturing Palestinian workers to death
Palestinian workers detained during the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023 were abused by Israeli prison guards, with some of them tortured to death or disappeared, according to testimonies collected by a Palestinian trade union.
Many Palestinian workers were also abused by their employers, who refused to pay salaries, spit on them and subjected them to humiliation and insults.
Israel acusado de torturar hasta la muerte a trabajadores palestinos
Los trabajadores palestinos detenidos durante el ataque dirigido por Hamás el 7 de octubre de 2023 sufrieron abusos por parte de los guardias de prisiones israelíes, y algunos de ellos fueron torturados hasta la muerte o desaparecieron, según testimonios recogidos por un sindicato palestino. Muchos trabajadores palestinos también sufrieron abusos por parte de sus empleadores, que se negaron a pagarles los salarios, los escupieron y los sometieron a humillaciones e insultos.
Dr. Abu Safiya Reports Torture and Severe Abuses in Israeli Custody
When he was captured from Gaza and transferred to the Sde Teiman military detention camp, he was subjected to various forms of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment—methods that are emblematic of Israeli mass arrest operations in Gaza. He reported being forcibly stripped, having his hands tightly shackled, and being made to sit on sharp gravel for approximately five hours by Israeli forces. He was also subjected to severe physical abuse, including beatings with batons and electric shock sticks, as well as repeated blows to the chest.
In Ofer Prison, where he was transferred on 9 January 2025, he was held in solitary confinement for 25 days—a period so prolonged as to constitute a form of torture in itself. During this time, he endured nearly continuous interrogation for 10 days. At one point, he lost consciousness in his cell due to severe breathing difficulties. During interrogation, Dr. Abu Safiya was confronted with accusations that he firmly denied, stressing that he is a doctor whose sole duty is to provide medical care to patients and the wounded.
He also reported a severe decline in his health, with his weight dropping from 96 kg to 84 kg, a 12 kg loss in less than two months—further evidence of Israel's systematic starvation policies against Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Additionally, he disclosed that he suffers from heart muscle enlargement. Despite repeatedly requesting medical attention from Israeli authorities, he has been systematically denied access to a specialist examination and deprived of essential care, further endangering his already deteriorating condition.
A new PHRI report unveils harrowing testimonies from detained medical workers. Abducted from their workplaces, held for months without charges, subjected to torture, sexual abuse, and denied medical care - these atrocities shake us to the core.
Un nuevo informe de PHRI revela desgarradores testimonios de trabajadores médicos detenidos. Secuestrados en sus lugares de trabajo, retenidos durante meses sin cargos, sometidos a tortura y abusos sexuales y privados de atención médica, estas atrocidades nos estremecen.
Shatha Hanaysha
My brother, Assem Hanaysha, has been in administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — for over a year now. During the month of Ramadan last March, a heavy piece of news reached him in the cells of the Naqab prison: that I, his sister Shatha, had been killed.
The news reached my brother as he languished in conditions lacking the most basic necessities of life, and with no means of verifying the information or communicating with the outside world. Surrounded by isolating walls and cut off from the news, with illnesses eating away at his body due to scabies, malnutrition, and stomach and dental problems, Assem carried this news with him and lived through hellish days believing that I was gone forever.
It was not easy to verify the truth.
Every attempt to deliver a piece of information to him became a long, difficult journey punctuated by long stretches of waiting due to complications imposed by the occupation on lawyers. These restrictions have at times made it nearly impossible for prisoners to access their lawyers, who are the only source of news they have about what is going on in the outside world, including news of the progress of the war. But after protracted efforts, we managed to reach a lawyer who was going to visit detainees at Naqab prison.
The plan was simple: the lawyer would deliver a verbal message to one of the prisoners, who would then pass it along through the sections and rooms, hoping it would reach Assem after a few days. The message was equally simple: “Your sister Shatha is well. She is alive.”
But even before the message reached him, the lawyer discovered something grave. After finishing his visit, he confirmed to us that every prisoner he met asked the same question as soon as they saw him: “Do you have any information about the journalist, the sister of the prisoner Assem Hanaysha? We heard that she was martyred.”
The extent of the terror that had been planted in my brother’s heart was evidenced by the fact that he had asked any prisoner due to see a lawyer to ask about my fate. It shows the depth of the pain endured by prisoners who are isolated from their families and their worlds.
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