In addition to forcing Palestinian prisoners to provide information before being treated, Israel is also in the habit of forcing Palestinian patients needing to cross into Israel for medical treatment to provide information to Israel's security services before being allowed in. Israel is fond of trumpeting its supposed humanitarian credentials by allowing Palestinians it has injured to travel to Israel for treatment. The Palestinians of course wouldn't need the treatment if they weren't being bombed and besieged by Israel in the first place:
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said at least 438 patients had been summoned for interrogation by the Shabak, the Israeli general security service, at the Erez crossing out of Gaza between January 2008 and March this year.
It took evidence from several patients and found they were "forced to provide information as a precondition to exit Gaza for medical care". The group said the ratio of applicants being interrogated rose from 1.45% in January last year to 17% in January this year. Their research also suggested the number of interrogations increased sharply from the beginning of this year, after Israel's three-week war in Gaza.
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