In a piece for Independent Australia, Dr Sue Baglow writes:
The latest report by the Physicians for Human Rights Israel makes for chilling reading. It provides evidence and testimony about the large numbers of Palestinian medical workers being detained for long periods without charge — tortured, starved and denied appropriate medical treatment.
Such reports should horrify healthcare workers in Australia when they see their colleagues treated in this way, for simply doing their jobs. This latest report sheds further light on abuses of medical workers by the State of Israel previously reported by agencies such as Health Care Workers Watch Palestine. At least four medical workers from Gaza have been killed while in detention: Dr Adnan Al Bursh, Dr Iyad Al Rantisi, Dr Ziad Al-Dalou and paramedic Hamdan Abu Anaba.
Read the rest of this article over at Independent Australia.