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This programme contains distressing and graphic images and descriptions
of death and injury including children, and discussions
of torture and abuse.
A group of Palestinian emergency workers and medics
are on a rescue mission.
Their ambulance is clearly marked, with lights flashing.
RAPID GUNSHOTS
Israeli soldiers open fire, and start
to kill the rescue workers.
GUNSHOTS CONTINUE
They said the convoy was suspicious because its lights were off.
But when 15 bodies were exhumed from a mass grave, this video
from the phone of one of the dead medics exposed the Israeli version
of events as untrue.
SHOUTING, GUNSHOTS
This is just one attack amongst hundreds
on Palestinian healthcare workers.
As Israel has bombed Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian doctors
and medics have refused to leave their hospitals.
We are in the theatre, in the operating room.
Full darkness.
No water, no electricity.
But we have a hero - surgeons in Gaza.
SIREN WAILS
Homes, schools and universities have been
destroyed, killing and injuring tens of thousands.
But from the first day of the war, Israel attacked the one thing
Palestinians needed most - its healthcare system.
21 months on, and every one of Gaza's 36 main
hospitals has been attacked, forced to evacuate or destroyed.
Bam!
And Israel has been killing the very people trying to keep
the healthcare system alive - its doctors and medics -
despite hospitals and healthcare workers being protected
under international law.
He got injured.
They shooted at us in the operating room.
Israel claims Hamas uses hospitals as part of its military strategy.
Hundreds of healthcare workers have been killed.
Hundreds have been detained.
Many of them have been forcibly disappeared.
This film is a forensic investigation into Israeli military
attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and allegations of targeting
and abuse of doctors and healthcare workers.
Our Palestinian team on the ground have gathered testimony from health
workers and their families.
And Israeli whistle-blowers have told us they've witnessed
Palestinian prisoners being tortured and that some Israeli
medics are complicit.
I don't even think that in the Israeli society, there
is a need for a cover-up these days.
You can do almost whatever you want when it comes to Gazans.
Sderot is an Israeli town bordering Gaza.
It was raided by Hamas militants on October 7th and at least 70
people were killed here.
SHOUTING
DANCE MUSIC
In total, around 1,200 people were killed
by Hamas and other militant groups, and 251 were taken
as hostages into Gaza.
MAN SHOUTS: Allahu Akbar!
Israelis have been coming to this vantage point in Sderot
to pay their respects to the dead...
..and to watch Gaza being attacked.
For over a week, Israeli forces have been raiding northern Gaza,
especially Jabalia refugee camp, which you can see from here.
There have been reports of over 300 Palestinians have been killed.
We just heard a massive boom and saw the smoke rising behind us.
And reports just coming in now, Israeli Air Force has bombed
the Al-Falah Medical Centre in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
Another medical centre that's been attacked.
At the start of the war, the Israeli Army targeted
Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa.
The hospital was already overwhelmed with casualties
from strikes on Gaza City.
Mohammad Abu Salmiya was the hospital's director.
In early October, there were close to 150 specialists
working at Al-Shifa, among them two orthopaedic surgeons,
Mohammed Obeid and Adnan Al Bursh, seen here on the left.
Al-Shifa became a symbolic target for Israel.
The Israeli military claimed there was a Hamas
command centre beneath it, and even released this video
animation of what it said it looked like.
CCTV footage was later released by the Israeli Defense Forces,
the IDF, showing two injured hostages being rushed
into the hospital by Hamas militants on October the 7th.
The IDF's bombing campaign was driving tens of thousands
of displaced people to seek refuge in and around Al-Shifa.
Israel had cut off electricity and water to the Gaza Strip.
Hospital generators were quickly running out of fuel.
We are in the theatre, in the operating room.
Full darkness, no water, no electricity.
But we have a hero - surgeons in Gaza.
We are working now in surgery with chargeable light,
with manual ventilation.
The Israeli Army dropped thousands of leaflets ordering the population
of northern Gaza to move south, and issued evacuation orders
for hospitals in the north.
SIRENS WAIL
EXPLOSION
On November 3rd,
an Israeli strike hit a convoy of ambulances exiting the hospital.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said 15 people were killed.
At least 60 were injured.
The Israeli Army claimed the ambulances were transporting
Hamas militants, but it did not provide any evidence of this.
Three days later, the hospital's solar panels were struck,
destroying one of its last sources of energy and killing
at least one person.
SCREAMING
On November 10th, a tank shell hit tents
outside the hospital.
It was the first of several strikes on the hospital complex in 24 hours,
including on a maternity ward.
Within days, Israeli troops had completely surrounded the hospital.
Hospital administrators said there wasn't enough fuel
to keep generators running.
As a result, at least 40 patients died, including
four premature babies.
Doctor Adnan Al Bursh joined medical staff to dig a mass grave.
The IDF finally raided Al-Shifa.
It failed to provide sufficient evidence showing the existence
of a key Hamas command centre, and Israel has continually
prevented access for an independent investigation.
Patients who could began to leave the hospital.
They were accompanied by around 60 medical staff,
including surgeons Adnan Al Bursh and Mohammed Obeid.
The route led to the south of Gaza, but there weren't enough
doctors in the north.
As soon as they could, Doctors Al Bursh and Obeid left
the IDF-ordered route and headed north to the Indonesian Hospital.
The war had separated Adnan Al Bursh from his wife,
Yasmine, and their children.
But the Indonesian Hospital and its vicinity was also
targeted by the IDF.
Again, the IDF said a Hamas tunnel complex lay beneath it...
..and also that rockets had been launched from sites close by.
CHILD SCREAMS
Dr Al Bursh's ward was struck on November 20th.
This footage, broadcast on Al Jazeera, shows him
injured after the attack.
12 patients on the ward were killed.
Three days later, the Israeli Army issued evacuation orders, then
raided and shut down the hospital.
Dr Al Bursh was on the move again.
He joined Dr Obeid at Al Awda Hospital,
their third in short succession.
This hospital had come under Israeli attack just days before.
SHOUTING
Nine months later, Al Awda Hospital
was partially functioning.
Dr Mohammed Obeid was still working there.
During a lull in the fighting, he told us about the
attacks on the hospital.
Two weeks after the ward was hit, Dr Obeid says
the Israeli Army gave the director of the hospital an ultimatum.
Dr Al Bursh made a final call to his family.
There is no footage of Adnan Al Bursh being seized,
but Al Jazeera obtained these pictures showing men
stripped to their underwear in the vicinity of the hospital.
We don't know if there are any medics in these pictures.
Like hospitals, medics are given extensive protections
under international law, regardless of their political views.
The Israeli Army said Dr Al Bursh was arrested
on suspicion of terrorism.
They provided no evidence of this.
Dr Al Bursh praised the October 7th attacks at the time,
and has been supportive of militant groups in the past, like some other
doctors in this film.
Following three of the hospital raids that we've investigated,
we found that medics were taken to locations human rights groups
have described to us as black sites, where there's no judicial oversight.
HE GIVES ORDERS
Footage of the sites is rare,
but this was filmed by a member of the IDF in a football
stadium in Gaza City, and was posted online
in December 2023.
We can't confirm if medics are in these images,
but thousands of Palestinians have been taken to these
sites, including medics.
We travelled to Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank,
to meet Budour Hassan, an Amnesty International researcher.
Now, you've been investigating black sites in Gaza.
What are these black sites being used for?
In these sites, the soldiers have absolutely complete power
to abuse, to torture, to hit, to humiliate the detainee,
without any oversight.
What can you tell me about the detainment of Palestinian
doctors and healthcare workers?
So, if there is one characteristic for which this war has stood out
it's the systematic targeting of the Palestinian healthcare
sector in the Gaza Strip.
We're not talking about 10, 20, 30, 40 healthcare workers.
We're talking about hundreds of detainees.
Israeli authorities would say that maybe these healthcare workers know
some information about hostages, or they knew information about Hamas
fighters being treated.
But on many occasions, these doctors are probably
interrogated just once or twice - and that's it.
The torture and unlawful treatment to which healthcare workers
are subjected is evident intent of the Israeli authorities
to destroy Palestinians.
So there is also an element of genocidal intent.
And destroying the healthcare sector, basically taking it out
of service through different means - not always necessarily
by directly attacking them, but by also detaining hundreds
of healthcare workers.
Budour says she's identified at least four black sites so far.
So, do you think there are other black sites that
you haven't heard about, that you haven't been
able to identify?
I think what we were able to identify is just a drop
in an ocean of horror.
This image of a black site was posted online.
We've been told the four men in the foreground
are all healthcare workers.
One of them is now in Egypt.
You are one of these men.
Which one are you?
This is who I am.
You're that one?
Yes.
VOICEOVER: Khaled Hamouda is a specialist surgeon.
It was shocking.
I mean, this is really shocking.
Yes.
It looks apocalyptic.
And later, you said that you were put into this pit?
It's a huge hole, you know, very high.
A month before this picture was taken, Dr Hamouda was working
at the Indonesian Hospital.
After it was attacked and shut down by the Israeli Army,
he was forced to move to Kamal Adwan Hospital,
a short walk from his home.
This is your home?
This is where I live.
OK.
Our building, it's three floors.
Yeah.
He shared the building with his extended family,
three of whom were doctors.
He says they were the only occupants of the building.
On December 3rd, 2023, his house was hit by a direct air strike.
Ten of Khaled Hamouda's family were killed.
So, can you tell us what happened after they attacked
it, where you went?
We moved away about 30m - here, exactly.
Mm-hm.
In front of this building.
So all these buildings were still standing and only
your building was hit?
Yes.
So you ran up the street?
Yes.
Up to another building?
We thought we were safe now, because the air strike finished
and the building almost destroyed.
Yes.
And about ten of you sat outside this building in the road?
Yes.
And that's when a drone strike hit?
Yes.
Khaled Hamouda was injured.
He was taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The two strikes killed 12 members of Khaled Hamouda's family,
a family of doctors.
We asked the IDF why they targeted Khaled Hamouda's family home.
They did not respond to this question.
Khaled Hamouda and his surviving family joined thousands of others
taking refuge in the grounds of his workplace,
Kamal Adwan Hospital.
For a week, the hospital was bombarded, before being raided
and then forcibly evacuated.
The UN says Israeli soldiers detained over 70 medics.
Khaled was amongst them, and was separated from his two
surviving children.
The Israeli Army said they had detained 90
terrorists during the raids - including the hospital
director, whom they claimed was a Hamas operative -
and again said that the hospital was being used as a command
and control centre.
This is Kamal Adwan Hospital.
They took us, we walk all the street.
Yeah.
And they ask the doctors to sit down there.
Mm-hm.
It's here where Khaled was photographed.
Khaled says he was taken to an adjacent building and interrogated.
After eight hours, where he says he and others were violently beaten,
Dr Hamouda was then transported to Israel.
The forcible transfer of prisoners across borders is prohibited
under international law.
The IDF told us that those found not to be involved in terrorist activity
are released as soon as possible.
Barely a week after his daughter and wife were killed,
Dr Hamouda was in Israeli detention.
He says he was held in stress positions, and on one occasion
forced to grip barbed wire.
Dr Hamouda has expressed support for Hamas on social media,
including the attacks on October 7th, and mourning a relative
who was a senior Hamas commander.
After three weeks, he was released without charge.
The IDF told us they rejected the claims made on the use of black
sites to avoid judicial oversight, as well as claims regarding enforced
disappearances, and that they follow international and Israeli law.
In the occupied West Bank, we meet academic Dr Layth Hanbali,
from the research centre The Institute for Palestine Studies.
He's been tracking Israel's attacks on Gaza's healthcare system,
using data collected by the organisation
Healthcare Workers Watch.
They've documented the deaths of 118 doctors, 65 of them
killed in their own homes.
We've heard of incidents where doctors have been hit
while in their homes.
Are these just accidents?
So, the Israeli Army claims to use precise strikes in order to target
identified either terrorists or terrorist infrastructure,
and that it aims to minimise unintended casualties.
And so, whether it's because the Israeli Army has
deliberately chosen to assassinate those individuals, or because it
doesn't care that it kills them and it considers them collateral
damage, it has made a choice to kill them, whether it's collateral damage
or whether it's assassination.
The massive loss of expertise will take years to rebuild.
Structures can be built very quickly, but healthcare
professionals require years to be trained.
And so that's going to have a massively detrimental effect
on the health of the Palestinian population for years to come.
By January 2024, Gaza's Ministry of Health calculated that
over 23,000 Palestinians had been killed...
..and the UN estimated that 60% of Gaza's homes had been
damaged or destroyed.
Only 13 out of Gaza's 36 hospitals were functioning.
With Al-Shifa shut down, the largest medical facility
operating in Gaza was now Nasser Hospital in the south.
Our colleague Jaber Badwan has been meeting the families of medics
who have been killed, detained or disappeared.
One of them is a missing surgeon called Khaled Al Serr.
He was taken from Nasser Hospital by the IDF in March 2024.
This is Khaled's mother, Kawther.
This is Khaled's brother, Wael.
We travelled to Egypt in September 2024 to meet a doctor who'd been
with Khaled Al Serr at Nasser Hospital.
Ahmed Moghrabi was the only reconstructive surgeon
left in southern Gaza.
OK.
Hello, my friend, again from the operating room.
I have one child, two years old.
You were in Nasser with Dr Khaled Al Serr.
Can you tell me about him?
The Israeli Army had surrounded Nasser for weeks.
Like thousands of other Palestinians, Dr Moghrabi
and his family were sheltering at the hospital.
EXPLOSIONS
They are bombing.
The IDF began striking the hospital and its vicinity
and cutting off supplies.
It's a really crime, it's a really crime.
They attacked a very populated area.
Displaced people here cannot cross this road.
Ahmed Moghrabi filmed people being targeted by Israeli snipers
at the hospital gate.
It's a child.
ON VIDEO: As you see, just dead body.
So that's the entrance of Nasser.
This is the entrance.
Right.
Dr Moghrabi captured this moment after an armed drone shot
a nurse on his ward.
Allahu Akbar.
During this period, hospital staff told us that at least 14 people
were killed by snipers or drones.
A mass grave was dug for them and the many others who had died
in the hospital grounds - just as in Al-Shifa.
The Israeli military said Nasser Hospital
was being used to hide hostages.
A number of freed hostages say they were held at Nasser
until they were released.
Did you ever see any hostages being held at Nasser?
On February 15th, both Doctors Moghrabi and Khaled Al Serr
were working when Israeli forces shelled and then finally
raided the hospital.
Khaled Al Serr was on the ward.
Dr Moghrabi fled with his family.
Dr Moghrabi says he and his family had to pass through an Israeli Army
checkpoint where soldiers were searching out medical
staff, amongst others.
Dr Moghrabi believes that he and his family
managed to escape only because he removed his scrubs.
After days of continuous war in Gaza, the Israeli Army invaded
the hospital by soldiers and by tanks, bulldozers.
They displaced all the healthcare workers and all patients
from all the buildings to be condensed into one department.
Inside the hospital, Dr Khaled Al Serr was filming
the patients who remained.
Israeli soldiers then rounded people up.
Like in other hospital raids, Palestinians are stripped and bound.
Even patients still in their beds are zip-tied.
The IDF said that it had arrested around 200 people,
including what it described as terrorists who posed as medics.
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 70 medics
were detained during the raid.
The IDF withdrew, while Dr Al Serr and the remaining staff tried
to keep the hospital running.
But weeks later, they raided again.
This time, Dr Khaled Al Serr was taken.
According to the UN, the attacks on the hospitals we've
investigated appear to follow a pattern of assault
that the Israeli Army has been replicating across Gaza.
This United Nations report, published in December 2024,
sets out the pattern generally being used.
First, the Army strikes hospital buildings and surroundings.
Then it besieges the hospital with ground troops, preventing access
and blocking medical supplies.
It raids the hospital, often using tanks and bulldozers.
It detains medical staff, patients and displaced people
sheltering in the hospital.
It then forces anyone remaining to leave.
And finally, Israeli troops withdraw, effectively rendering
the hospital non-functional.
It is a war crime to attack civilian hospitals unless they're used
to commit acts harmful to the enemy, but even then, any response
must be proportionate.
In response to the UN report, Israel said, "Hamas has chosen
to methodically abuse the protection of
medical facilities.
Hamas embeds its tunnel system and infrastructure
within the premises."
And so Israel says their operations are therefore "legally justifiable".
As we're gathering testimonies from medics and their families
in Gaza about how they're being targeted, we're
also collecting evidence about what happens once they're
brought here to Israel.
In the occupied West Bank, lawyer Khaled Zabarga
is representing ten detained healthcare workers from Gaza.
His clients are being held in Ofer Prison.
For the first seven months of the war, Israel prevented lawyers
communicating with detainees.
Now they can apply to visit after 90 days of detention,
but very few applications have been approved.
We can't go in with him, but this is footage from inside the prison.
PRISONER SCREAMS
On the anniversary of the October 7th attacks,
Israel's Channel 13 filmed a raid on Ofer Prison by the Israel Prison
Service, in what they said was a search for weapons.
Later that evening, we met with Khaled Zabarga
on his return from Ofer Prison.
He said his client showed signs of physical and mental torture.
We put these allegations to the IDF, and they didn't respond.
There had been no sightings of Khaled Al Serr, the missing
surgeon from Nasser Hospital...
..until this video was posted of a hospital administrator
called Ahmed Al Kel, who had just been
released from prison.
Like thousands of Palestinians, the two men had been transferred
from black sites in Gaza to detention centres in Israel.
Khaled Al Serr had been held at a military base called Sde Teiman.
That, in the distance, is the Sde Teiman military facility.
We're not going to get any closer.
Now, originally, it was a military base and vehicle warehouse,
but after the 7th October Hamas attacks, it was quickly converted
into an interrogation site housing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
It's now become notorious after reports of torture, rape and abuse.
Israel's Channel 12 broadcast a leaked video purporting to show
a gang rape at Sde Teiman.
The victim's injuries were so severe, he was taken to hospital
for emergency surgery.
When nine soldiers were arrested, ultranationalist Israelis stormed
Sde Teiman demanding their release.
Five of those soldiers were later charged with abuse.
CHANTING
Some Israeli politicians debated whether the rape
of prisoners should be allowed.
There's been hardly any testimony from soldiers
stationed at Sde Teiman, but we've found one soldier willing
to talk about what he saw.
But he says he can only do this anonymously
because he feels under threat.
Even before going there, I had heard rumours of what...
..you know, what was done to detainees there, with either
people bragging about physically abusing them or sort
of joking about it.
They would say, like, to me that I would have
to physically abuse detainees.
Can you tell me about the detainees who were doctors
or healthcare workers?
There were a lot of detainees that were known to be detained
from the hospitals in Gaza.
And the main reason, I was told, that they were detained
is that they possibly witnessed hostages either being transported
to places or being given care in hospitals in Gaza.
Did you ever witness detainees being abused?
Yeah.
Soldiers that were enthusiastic to get their hands on detainees.
What do you mean by that?
Even among commanders, one of the incidents in which, like,
one of the soldiers which had beaten a detainee, he wouldn't shut up
about it, and I recall the commander being in on it
and showing his respect for that.
From what you're saying, it sounds like this behaviour
wasn't just tolerated, it was encouraged.
Yeah, yeah.
In those sort of circles, people that guard the detainees sort
of view themselves as fighters or something, and I think
this whole experience was still viewed as pretty just.
What do you think about that now?
I mean, it was shocking.
I'm deeply ashamed.
CHILDREN CHATTER
Our producer, Jaber Badwan, interviewed several
medics who'd been held at Sde Teiman, then
released back into Gaza.
Walid Khalili is a paramedic.
This is him at Al-Shifa hospital in 2023.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says 27 of their paramedics have
been killed while on duty since October 2023.
34 of their ambulances have been taken out of service
due to Israeli attacks.
Walid Khalili was arrested while on a rescue mission
and taken to Sde Teiman, and later transferred
to another prison.
Dr Saeed Marouf is a paediatrician.
He's back treating Gaza's wounded and malnourished
children at Nasser Hospital, now partially functioning.
According to the United Nations, much of Gaza has been on the brink
of famine because of Israel's severe restrictions on aid.
Dr Marouf was detained for 45 days, mostly at Sde Teiman.
General Surgeon Issam Abu Ajwa and his whole team were taken
from the operating theatre in Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
He makes shocking allegations about his 137 days in Sde Teiman.
Dr Abu Ajwa makes a shocking allegation that others have told us
- that some Israeli medics refuse to treat Palestinian prisoners
and even physically abuse them.
We spoke to Israeli medics who confirmed that some doctors had
mistreated Palestinian detainees, but they were all too scared to go
on camera for fear of retribution.
Finally, one doctor who'd been stationed at Sde Teiman's field
hospital, among others, agreed to meet on
condition of anonymity.
I remember at least one case where a very painful procedure
was being done and the patient got no consent.
Things were not explained to him in his language,
so he didn't know what was going on.
And, to the best of my knowledge, no painkillers were administered
to him around that procedure.
And I was there.
I saw that happening, and I saw him screaming,
and I saw no-one stopping it.
And why do you think this was happening?
Why weren't they using anaesthetic on this patient?
Well, I think that was retribution.
Like, that was a way to inflict pain.
So the scary part is how I could not recognise that.
When I saw that, and I recognise how I have normalised the fact that even
those patients are defined and are called just
by a five-digit number.
They don't have a name, they don't move.
They are blindfolded, so you do not look at them in the eyes.
So you're taking a lot of the humanity and the empathy that
you might feel away.
So there is no doubt that, in many ways, I am an accomplice,
as well as an Israeli physician, to how we have been treating Gazans.
Were you given any guidelines, or were you briefed
about the parameters within which you could work?
The only guidelines that we see is about, like, keeping
ourselves anonymous.
Just because they wouldn't want their names coming out to,
let's say, foreign countries and foreign journalists just
because they might be liable, potentially, of war crimes.
What happens if you speak out?
Well, I might be viewed as a traitor.
So in this atmosphere, where people are scared to speak
out, do you think this is causing a cover-up?
I don't even think that in the Israeli society, there
is a need for a cover-up these days.
You can do almost whatever you want when it comes to Gazans.
Honestly, I think that's how the Israeli society has been
dehumanising Palestinians for years.
It didn't start on October 7th.
It's nothing new.
The IDF and the Israel Prison Service did not respond
to the allegation that Israeli doctors mistreated detainees.
But the IDF said detainees can request medical care.
Dr Khaled Hamouda had also been detained at Sde Teiman.
His detention had coincided with another doctor -
the surgeon from Al-Shifa Hospital, Adnan Al Bursh.
What was Adnan's state of mind like?
Did he look healthy to you?
In mid-April, Dr Adnan Al Bursh was transferred to Ofer Prison.
He died on the day of his arrival.
What did you think when you heard Adnan had died in prison?
Testimony from other prisoners provided to an Israeli human rights
group describes prison guards beating Dr Al Bursh and throwing him
to the ground before his death.
The Israel Prison Service says it is not aware of any
of the claims made in this film, and the IDF says they act
in accordance with international law, and the abuse of detainees
is strictly prohibited.
Israeli documents show that 65 Palestinians have died
in its detention since October 2023.
Along with Adnan Al Bursh, there are at least three other
healthcare workers - Dr Iyad al-Rantisi,
head of obstetrics at Kamal Adwan Hospital,
Dr Ziad Al-Dalou from Al-Shifa Hospital,
and paramedic Hamdan Abu Anaba.
In October 2024, Israeli forces launched another ground
invasion of northern Gaza.
They issued evacuation orders to the remaining 400,000
Palestinians and cut all aid reaching them.
Once again, Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and the Indonesian Hospitals came
under attack, and the UN Secretary-General warned
the world it needed to act to prevent ethnic cleansing.
But the plan to clear northern Gaza was delayed.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,
was one of several doctors refusing to leave his patients.
Here he is standing next to Dr Mohammed Obeid.
Allahu Akbar.
In late October, following another raid, an Israeli drone strike
killed his son, Ibrahim.
The next day, he spoke to Al Jazeera.
After more than two months under attack,
and with the hospital in flames, it was forced to finally close.
Israel says it detained over 200 militants in the area,
but the hospital says Israel detained many healthcare workers,
like Dr Abu Safiya.
This is the last time he was seen in Gaza by his colleagues,
walking towards an Israeli tank.
Dr Abu Safiya was taken to Sde Teiman, and is now
being held in Ofer Prison.
Israel accuses him of having a rank in Hamas.
In March 2025, an Israeli court classified him
as an unlawful combatant, and ordered his continued
imprisonment without charge or trial.
His lawyer says he's not a terrorist and that he's been held
in solitary confinement, shown signs of torture,
and denied proper medical care.
Having worked through four separate hospital sieges,
Dr Mohammed Obeid was taken by Israeli soldiers
on October 26th, 2024.
He is still being held.
Over a year after his death, the body of Adnan Al Bursh has not
been returned to his family in Gaza.
After more than six months in detention, Dr Khaled Al Serr,
the surgeon who stayed on at Nasser Hospital
through the worst, returned to his family.
Like all of those doctors we've spoken to detained by Israel,
he was released without charge.
And like all of those doctors, Khaled Al Serr says he was tortured.
Dr Al Serr was released a year after the war began.
A war in which over 1,500 healthcare workers have reportedly been killed,
including at least 50 highly qualified specialists.
A war in which Gaza's healthcare system has been destroyed.
In May 2025, the IDF struck the European Hospital,
saying it killed Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar.
In June, it issued an edited video it said showed a tunnel under
the hospital where Sinwar and other militants died, and gave a media
tour to some journalists.
Also in May, Israeli government minister Bezalel Smotrich
vowed to destroy Gaza.
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