Israeli doctor at detention facility says grim conditions 'break the law'

A doctor at an Israeli field hospital where Palestinians detained from Gaza are held has described harrowing details of conditions, including limb amputation due to handcuff injuries and prisoners forced to defecate in nappies. 

The unnamed doctor working at the Sde Teiman facility, between Gaza and Bersheeba in the Negev desert, wrote about the experiences in a letter to Israel's defence minister, health minister and the legal adviser to the government. The letter was reported on Thursday by Haaretz. 

Sde Teiman was established following the outbreak of war last year, as a temporary facility to detain those accused of participating in Hamas's attack on southern Israel on 7 October.

Many of those detained have no connection to Hamas, and have been released after interrogation. 

The doctor said that the hospital at the facility does not receive a regular supply of medicine and equipment.

They also said that all patients are handcuffed on all four limbs for the entire day, with their eyes covered, and fed with a straw, regardless of how dangerous they are. Many are forced to defecate wearing a nappy. 

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