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We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse.

The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers.

The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers. “We’re really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities,” says Ansari, who says evidence is mounting of a “systematic pattern of ill-treatment and abuse.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (46 children)

That’s an understatement…

It’s too bad the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region don’t have a war going on so they can have their genocide highlighted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The difference is, western nations aren't giving China billions of dollars for the express purpose of bombing uyghur civilians. There is still the issue of continuing trade, but then you're getting into a game of passing the buck. The people blame the politicians who blame the corps who blame the people. Nobody wants to be the first to take responsibility for it.

I think you'll find very few people who are against Israel's actions but support China's actions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Care first our own guilt in genocide before lecturing other countries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

We should absolutely be working on both. But the genocide of palestinians is definitely the easier one to effect at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every Lemmy.ml and every hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

.ml has 50k users, and hexbear has 27k.

Assuming every single one of those people side with Palestinians and also the CCP, and are also not bots or duplicate accounts(which is absolutely not the case), that's only 77k. Or 2.5% of the population of the U.S.

That's very few people like I said.

And if you only go off of active users in the last 6 months(which we should given that lots of people will have made accounts, then later left due to disagreement or lack of interest), it's only around 8k people. So again, very few people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I think there are only a dozen actual active users on ML, owning most of those accounts. 😂

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