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What About the Palestinian Hostages? (www.haaretz.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next, as they were all destroyed by the IDF. He has not been back to his home in Jabalya since the start of the war, and last December all trace of him disappeared. Recently, it transpired that he had died in an Israeli jail, apparently due to the torture of beatings during interrogation.

The last people to see him were other doctors and detainees who have been released. They told Haaretz correspondents Jack Khoury and Bar Peleg that they had barely recognized him. "It was clear he had been through hell, torture, humiliation, and sleep deprivation. He wasn't the person we knew; he was a shadow of himself."

On top of the doctor's death came another heinous act: the response of the authorities. The Shin Bet was silent as usual. Ex-Shin Bet officers are now star commentators on television, asked to show us the way, to give us their opinion, but the Shin Bet never talks about those it has interrogated and tortured.

The IDF shirked responsibility; the doctor was only "processed" at an army detention facility, and was immediately transferred to the Shin Bet interrogation facility in Kishon, and from there to Ofer Prison, which is under the charge of the Israel Prison Service. The IPS response was pure audacity: "The service does not address the circumstances of the deaths of detainees who are not Israeli citizens."

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You know it's bad when this is published by Haaretz... Meaning it has been read, reviewed and approved by the IDF censor bureau. This is what the IDF considers acceptable to be released to the public. It's probably far worst than this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I’ve heard but not confirmed that Haaretz doesn’t have much circulation in Israel. It’s consistently cited online though.

Makes me wonder if Haaretz is a useful stooge in the propaganda war. Almost as if Mother Jones were cited often so foreign people could think that we don’t have a large electorate supporting … dumb things we do.