Dr Ahmed Muhanna – who spent a year and 10 months in Israeli detention – says Gaza’s decimated health sector suffered heavily through Israel’s 18-year blockade before Israel’s war, but he’s “shocked” at the reality of it now.
He told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah that about 70 percent of the functioning hospitals face severe shortages of medicine and essential equipment, and environmental contamination from Israel’s attacks continues to sicken Palestinians.
“We have hundreds of patients coming to the emergency departments due to pollution of water and food. It’s very dangerous,” said Muhanna.
He said his imprisonment by Israel’s army was because “I kept my patients in the hospital.
“In the prison, there was no healthcare, and most of the prisoners suffered from disease. We asked many times to change clothes and for showers, but they refused. For seven months, we didn’t change our clothes, which developed scabies and abscesses. We lost many prisoners due to lack of medications,” said Muhanna.
WATCH: Torture, leak, outrage – the Sde Teiman affair
The Israeli government is facing what it calls a “public relations disaster” after a video surfaced appearing to show soldiers torturing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner.
Public outrage in Israel has focused less on the abuse and more on the leak itself. And the military’s chief prosecutor, who admitted leaking the footage, has been arrested and branded a traitor.
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