Sde Teiman Doctor Who Saw Abused Gazan Detainee: 'I Couldn't Believe an Israeli Prison Guard Could Do Such a Thing'

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by Hagar Shezaf, Bar Peleg and Ran Shimoni at Haaretz

Prof. Yoel Donchin, a doctor at Sde Teiman who saw the Gazan detainee after he was allegedly abused by nine Israeli reservists, expressed shock at the man’s condition. ‘I was certain this was revenge by the Nukhba against the Nukhba,’ he said, referring to the elite Hamas unit

A doctor at the army detention facility at Sde Teiman said that after seeing the Gazan detainee who allegedly suffered severe sexual abuse at the hands of reservists, he “couldn’t believe an Israeli jailer could do such a thing.”

“I was certain this was revenge by the Nukhba against the Nukhba,” added the doctor, Prof. Yoel Donchin, referring to Hamas’ elite unit that carried out many of the atrocities in southern Israel on October 7.

Nine reservists were arrested by the military police on Monday on suspicion of sodomizing the prisoner. On Tuesday, they were brought to the military court at the Beid Lid base for a bail hearing. The court rejected requests by Haaretz and other media outlets to enter the courtroom.

Protesters outside the courthouse where a discussion on the nine arrested reservists is being conducted, at Beit Lid IDF base, on Tuesday.

Information obtained by Haaretz shows that the Gazan detainee suffered from a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs. He was taken to a hospital for an operation.

“If the state and Knesset members think there’s no limit to how much you can abuse prisoners, they should kill them themselves, like the Nazis did, or close the hospitals,” Donchin said, adding, “If they maintain a hospital only for the sake of defending ourselves at [the International Criminal Court at] the Hague, that’s no good.”

He added that the hospital staff is…