Allegations centre on a military hospital where, a whistle-blower said, painkillers were "routinely" not used in procedures.

A whistle-blower detailed how procedures in one military hospital were “routinely” carried out without painkillers, causing “an unacceptable amount of pain” to detainees.

Another whistle-blower said painkillers were used “selectively” and “in a very limited way” during an invasive medical procedure on a Gazan detainee in a public hospital.

He also said critically ill patients being held in makeshift military facilities were being denied proper treatment because of a reluctance by public hospitals to transfer and treat them.

One detainee, taken from Gaza for questioning by the Israeli army and later released, told the BBC his leg had to be amputated because he was denied treatment for an infected wound.

  • @CrackhappyEnglish
    14•25 days ago

    Years ago, in the distant past, a youth with no learning, I set out to figure out a way to scare off the crows on my father’s land.

    I put up some sticks, but that didn’t work.

    Eventually I figured out that fleshing out that skeletal figure worked better. I gave that figure some more depth and dimensionality.

    I propped up that skeletal figure, put some clothes on him and stuffed him full of straw. He did good. He scared off the crows.

    He was my straw man. He was good at his job. How good is your straw man?