Israel Green Lights Autopsy of Gazan Doctor Tortured to Death in Detention

Former prisoners and Israeli officials have given multiple accounts of the inhumane conditions inside Israeli detention centers, where Palestinians are often shackled 24 hours a day and made to endure severe torture

Israeli authorities on 23 May authorized an autopsy on the body of Dr Adnan al-Bursh, who served as the head of orthopedic surgery at Al-Shifa Hospital before being arrested and tortured to death in Israeli detention.

The autopsy will be performed in the presence of a doctor representing the family.

A request submitted last week by Bursh's wife, Yasmin al-Bursh, for the investigation of her husband's death, was approved by Judge Gad Arenberg, who gave Tel Aviv seven days to respond.

According to the autopsy request, the doctor's health was good at the time of his arrest.

A statement from the Palestinian Prisoners Society released earlier this month said that Bursh, 50, was tortured to death on 19 April in Ofer Prison, an Israeli-run incarceration facility in the occupied West Bank. The group characterized his murder as a “deliberate assassination.”

Israeli media reports have claimed that the circumstances of Bursh's death “remain unknown and that Israeli authorities had not informed his family about them.”

Palestinians who met with the late surgeon in prison said he was in a “deplorable medical condition.”

“We barely recognized him … It was clear he had gone through hell, torture, humiliation, and a lack of sleep. He suffered from pains and a severe lack of food,” an unnamed Palestinian doctor told Haaretz.
“We tried to talk to him and calm him down, but he was shocked and sounded like he was scared and in pain. This was not the person we knew, but a shadow [of his former self],” the doctor added.

Bursh was arrested last December along with 10 other medical workers during the Israeli military ground assault on Jabalia refugee camp as he was treating patients at Al-Awada Hospital in northern Gaza.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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