All language subtitles for Gaza Doctors Under Attack (2025).EN

This programme contains distressing
and graphic images and descriptions

of death and injury including
children, and discussions

of torture and abuse.

I hope they are OK.

A group of Palestinian
emergency workers and medics

are on a rescue mission.

Their ambulance is clearly marked,
with lights flashing.

These moments need to be documented.

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.

Mum, forgive me, mum.

This is the path I chose, to help people.

Forgive me, mum.

I swear I only chose this path to help others.

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.

We're in the orthopaedic ward,

it's full of injured.

Three rooms filled with patients
were blown up, and the ceiling fell on them.

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.

They hung me up, everyone was hung up,

blood flowing from everyone.

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.

Medical teams worked around the clock.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya
was the hospital's director.

The situation was extremely difficult.

We saw injured people with wounds
that began to rot.

We were unable to change their bandages.

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.

Do you go to kindergarten?

I was with Dr Adnan 24/7 in the same department.

The fear was overwhelming,
the medical teams were terrified.

We felt we were being targeted to weaken
the resolve of the people in northern Gaza.

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.

We ignored these messages as we could
not forget that we work at al-Shifa Hospital.

Because it was the backbone
of the entire health system in Gaza.

By stopping al-Shifa from operating,
you have disabled the whole health system in Gaza.

As we did not abide by the messages
they started sending us rockets

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.

We were under siege in al-Shifa
Hospital for 12 days.

A huge number of displaced people
and medical staff fled the hospital after that.

But some stayed to treat the injured...

like myself and Dr Adnan Al Bursh.

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.

Honestly, this is a difficult sight to behold.

This is Dr Adnan, may God protect us.

The route led to the south of Gaza,
but there weren't enough

doctors in the north.

I was scared to walk in the other direction
because snipers might shoot at me.

But I knew the majority of the injured
would need bone surgery,

so orthopaedic surgeons ought to stay
in the north of Gaza.

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.

Hi Adnan.

Good morning, good morning.

Tell me how you are,

and where are you now, Adnan?

I am now at the Indonesian Hospital.

Are they going to transfer you to the South?

I am not going to the South.

My husband told me I am staying in the hospital,

and I will get you and the children to a safe place
at your uncle's house.

Because if the Occupation commits a crime,
we'd all be gone.

If our fate is to die, it should be just me,
not you or the children.

We do not want to be erased like many
other families have been.

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.

It's all good.

When was the last time he had it changed?

Dr Mohammed Obeid was
still working there.

During a lull in the fighting,
he told us about the

attacks on the hospital.

This is the third floor.

It's a very painful memory,

this area was full of patients,

and this is where the counter was
for the duty doctors.

And three doctors were killed here,

Dr Mahmoud Abu Nejaila, Dr Ahmed Sahar
and Dr Ziad Tatar.

Two weeks after the ward
was hit, Dr Obeid says

the Israeli Army gave the director
of the hospital an ultimatum.

They told us they have a full record of
every single person in the hospital

and if anyone stayed, they might
either destroy it or kill the women and children.

Dr Al Bursh made a final
call to his family.

Are you good?
Yes.

Happy?

Yes.

Oh, where is Elen?

Here is Elen, come talk to your dad.

Come on, before the Jews [Israelis] come.

Elen, where are you, I've missed you.

Dad, come stay with us.

Yes, I will come to you tomorrow.

Take care of your mum.

At that moment, I felt my heart
beating out of my chest.

The fear overcame me.

He is going out to the army,
I do not know what they'll do to him,

will they beat him or detain him?

I'm not used to being separated from him.

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.

We all went outside the hospital for interrogation.

Within five minutes,

soldiers came and took Dr Adnan Al Bursh
after calling his name.

Dr Adnan stood up, and showing no fear,

he walked away with them.

But he looked directly at me
as if he was saying goodbye.

That was the last time I saw Dr Adnan Al Bursh.

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.

Most of my family were killed,

Also my older brother, 38 years old,

And my younger brother, Dr Mohammed,
and my uncle and his wife.

My son, Ahmed, and I were injured.

But my wife and my two daughters
were not injured and we sent them outside.

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.

My family and I, my wife and my children,

we were attacked at that very moment...

I have no doubt it was intentional.

Khaled Hamouda was injured.

He was taken to
Kamal Adwan Hospital.

I was shocked to see one of the nurses who
I worked with carrying my daughter.

She was carrying my daughter, Reem,
she was dead.

That was the moment I knew
she had been killed.

I recognised her from her clothes.

I asked the nurse to come closer
so I could see her face.

She asked if I knew her.
I said, "Yes, she is my daughter."

My daughter...

She said, "She was dead on arrival."

My wife's body was retrieved from the street,

and I was told the following morning
that I lost my wife too.

The two strikes killed 12 members
of Khaled Hamouda's family,

a family of doctors.

I don't know where they were buried,
I never saw them again.

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.

We thought they were genuinely going to
transport us to another place,

because they kept us separated from civilians.

But within an hour,
they mixed us with the civilians again.

There was a soldier or an officer behind the camera

who decides who goes right or left.

I thought I was one of the lucky ones
to be told to go to the left.

Of course, I say this sarcastically.

As it turned out,
left was the side for detention.

Khaled says he was taken to an
adjacent building and interrogated.

Surprisingly, he became more interested

when I said I am a surgeon at the
Indonesian Hospital.

He shook has head and called for someone
to take me away.

And he began to beat me.

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.

I was handcuffed and blindfolded

and I was taken and thrown In the truck.

It was an inhuman situation.

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.

This is what he'd wear for surgery.

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.

Khaled is my youngest child,

my sixth.

He studied medicine in Gaza,

and he was among the top students.

Two months before the war started,
he was in the UK.

This is Khaled's brother, Wael.

What do you think happened to him?

There were no traces of them or
anything connected to Khaled.

We had many frightening thoughts.

There are many people who lost their loved ones
and their children,

they may find them buried somewhere...

or thrown onto another street.

My darling, I miss you,
I miss hugging you,

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?

Dr Khaled Al Serr is one of the best
doctors at our hospital.

He did his best to serve the
hospital until the last minute.

Today this case, I have operated
on a three-year-old child

who got shot with a small shrapnel.

We have been besieged by Israeli
tanks surrounding all the hospital,

from all directions, we are
forbidden from going outside.

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.

Dead bodies of these children, see?
Massacre, massacre.

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.

I turned my camera towards him.

The other nurses heard him
screaming and they ran to him.

He was shot in the right side of his chest.

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?

I didn't see any Israeli hostages.

When I arrived, I went to the operating theatre
and stayed working from there.

Even if doctors in any hospitals
like in al-Shifa, Nasser or others

dealt with the hostages and treated them...

does that mean for saving the life of
a hostage or treating one,

you should be killed or interrogated?

On February 15th, both
Doctors Moghrabi and Khaled Al Serr

were working when Israeli forces
shelled and then finally

raided the hospital.

I started looking for my wife and kids,

and found the third floor was full of smoke.

Khaled Al Serr was on the ward.

A few minutes ago they warned
the hospital through loudspeakers

to evacuate before they blow it up.

Three rooms filled with patients
were blown up, and the ceiling fell on them.

Dr Khaled was one of the doctors...

insisting on staying in the hospital
until the very last minute.

Dr Moghrabi fled with his family.

I said when I get the chance,
I'm going to go for it.

They are going to raid the hospital
and either detain or kill us.

That was the first time I took off my scrubs.

Dr Moghrabi says he and his family
had to pass through an Israeli Army

checkpoint where soldiers
were searching out medical

staff, amongst others.

I warned everyone not to say that I am a doctor.

When it was our turn, I went with my wife and
children and stood in front of the camera.

I was surprised that the Israeli soldier
told us to pass.

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.

I will be visiting three prisoners from Gaza.

This is prison of the army.

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.

Usually, the first visit is difficult because
it happens after a long period of being cut off.

The prisoner will ask many questions about
his family and children.

So the first visit is always difficult.

We can't go in with him, but this
is footage from inside the prison.

We're done.

PRISONER SCREAMS

There are the terrorists inside.

They are resisting.

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.

Another terrorist being brought inside.

They are all terrorists who participate
in the massacre.

All of them have blood
on their hands.

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.

He sand some detainees were stripped
and sexually assaulted.

They used sticks and forced them

into the detainees' anus
and caused an internal bleed.

Other detainees had broken skulls and
other parts, clue to the beating and torture.

The detainee also sand that after being tortured
he saw other prisoners die before his eyes.

As a result of their torture, they died.

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.

One of my colleagues
next to me called Khaled [Al-Serr],

his beard was plucked with pliers
in front of my eyes...

his beard was plucked.

He is one of hundreds I know of.

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.

Is it legitimate to insert a stick into a person's rectum?

Yes. If he is a Hamas militant everything
is legitimate. Everything!

Everything!

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.

When I arrived at Sde Teiman prison,
I was in a bad way, my ribs were broken.

But inside during interrogation they would
continuously beat me.

I went into a room,

he took off my boxers and put diapers on me.

I was in diapers the whole time.

They hung me up, everyone was hung up,

blood flowing from everyone.

They started torturing me, they electrocuted me...

“Say that you are Hamas! You are Hamas!”

Like this.

You see how I'm sitting?

When it was time to eat, it was like this.

For the duration of my detention,
my hands were bound all the time.

Some people had their hands amputated.

She should be 4kg for her age.

And she needs 400ml of milk every day.

Dr Saeed Marouf is a paediatrician.

He's back treating Gaza's
wounded and malnourished

children at Nasser Hospital,
now partially functioning.

How much weight has he lost?

According to the United Nations,
much of Gaza has been on the brink

of famine because of Israel's severe
restrictions on aid.

You'll get better...

Tell me what you want, we'll get it for you.

Grapes and mangoes.

Did you hear what he said?

He wants grapes and mangoes.

Dr Marouf was detained for 45 days,
mostly at Sde Teiman.

Tell me what happened, in detail?

He'd tell us to sit on our knees for the whole day.

“Sit on your knees!”

You can bear it for half an hour, maybe two
but not 40 or 50 days or two months,

It destroys you.

We were blindfolded and handcuffed
for the whole time.

It's very difficult.

Doctor, I can see the difficulty you're dealing with.

It's tough...

It was really tough...

bear with me.

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.

One of the interrogators would
bring the toilet cleaning brush,

and tell me, “I want to brush
your teeth with it.”

And he broke my front teeth, here.

Another interrogator got some pliers
and pulled my fingernail out.

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.

Some paramedics, especially the doctors,
were violent towards us.

I experienced this myself.

On one occasion, due to the pain,
I was not able to move at all,

I asked for the doctor again.

The doctor came and he literally told me,

“You're a criminal, and you have to die.”

He then started to hit me on my legs.

Then he said, “If you ask for me again,
I am going to end your life.”

I told him, “At the end of the day
you are a doctor.”

He replied, “I am a doctor, but you are a criminal.”

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.

I immediately noticed him.
He was with a group of doctors.

What was Adnan's state of mind like?

Did he look healthy to you?

Not at all.

It was clear he had been beaten and tortured.

So much so that I used to take him to the
toilet and bring him back.

He told me that he was assaulted on
his way here from the hospital.

Likely in similar conditions to when I was detained,
and repeatedly beaten.

I believe that Dr Adnan was treated differently
from the other detainees and even doctors,

maybe because he was the Head of
Orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital.

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?

I don't lake the word died.
He was murdered, he was killed.

In one way or another it was
as a result of torture.

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.

What the people of northern Gaza
are facing is a real genocide.

The health system
has completely collapsed.

Allahu Akbar.

In late October, following another
raid, an Israeli drone strike

killed his son, Ibrahim.

The next day, he spoke
to Al Jazeera.

Everything that we've built, they've burned.

They've burned our hearts
and killed my son.

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.

What does victory in Gaza look like?

Gaza will be totally destroyed.

Simply because it's entirely terrorist infrastructure
above and below the ground.

So simply completely destroyed.

The civilians are concentrated south of the morag axis
in the humanitarian zone.

Without Hamas or terrorism.

From there they are beginning to leave
in large numbers to third countries.

This is an event that will change the reality and
history of Israel for decades to come.