Palestinians recount deadly abuse in Israeli prisons: ‘It is Guantánamo’ – WaPost
“One Palestinian inmate died with a ruptured spleen and broken ribs after being beaten by Israeli prison guards. Another met an excruciating end because a chronic condition went untreated. A third screamed for help for hours before dying.
“The details of the prisoners’ deaths were recounted by eyewitnesses and corroborated by doctors from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), who sat in on autopsies, the findings of which were shared with families and obtained by The Washington Post. The three men are among at least 13 Palestinians from the West Bank and Israel to die in Israeli jails since Oct. 7, according to PHRI. An unknown number of prisoners from the Gaza Strip have also died.
“Rights groups say conditions in Israel’s jam-packed prisons have deteriorated dangerously since the Hamas attacks on Israel. Former Palestinian prisoners described routine beatings, often carried out on entire cells or sections, usually with batons and sometimes with dogs. They said they were denied sufficient food and medical care and were subjected to psychological as well as physical abuse.”
‘Tear Beirut apart’: Some politicians beat war drums after Majdal Shams rocket attack – Times of Israel
“As Smotrich says ‘Nasrallah should pay with his head’ and Ben Gvir demands ‘war in the north now,’ opposition leaders also call for an aggressive reaction to deadly strike”
A wider Middle East conflict could give the Israeli government political cover to help continue, or expand, US military funding essential to these current and long-term goals: 1) reducing the size of the Palestinian population and 2) acquiring Palestinian land.
Meanwhile, US doctors returning from the horror write a letter to President Biden:
US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel – Guardian
“Doctors and nurses say death toll is more than 92,000, describe gruesome injuries and a sick and traumatized people.”
“‘We cannot forget the scenes of unbearable cruelty directed at women and children that we witnessed ourselves,’ they wrote. ‘Every single signatory to this letter treated children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head.’ Several of the signatories previously told the Guardian they believed Israeli snipers were targeting children and reported the devastating impact on civilians of weapons designed to spray high levels of shrapnel…
“‘President and Dr Biden, we wish you could see the nightmares that plague so many of us since we have returned: dreams of children maimed and mutilated by our weapons, and their inconsolable mothers begging us to save them,’ they said. ‘We wish you could hear the cries and screams our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot believe that anyone would continue arming the country that is deliberately killing these children after seeing what we have seen.'”
Following the money, however, shows whom the traumatized doctors are appealing to:
Money from Pro-Israel to US Senators, 1990-2024
Many Congressional staffers are sickened by what their bosses are doing:
Congressional aides create dissent channel to protest Israel’s war in Gaza – Hill
“‘Despite clear and mounting objections from constituents across the country, threats that the war’s regional escalation poses to U.S. interests, and the unconscionable Palestinian civilian casualties numbering in the tens of thousands, Congress has refused to use its leverage to condition arms on curbing human rights abuses, and to compel Israel to broker an immediate ceasefire,’ the group wrote on the website.”