A recently released report by the UK-based Sky News revealed chilling new details about the torture, including sexual abuse, and subsequent murder of famous Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh in an Israeli prison in May.
The report citing a captive at Israel’s Ofer Prison, detailed how Israeli forces left the severely tortured Dr Al-Bursh, naked from the waist down, to die alone in agonising pain in the prison’s yard.
“In mid-April 2024, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh arrived at Section 23 in Ofer Prison. The prison guards brought Dr Adnan Al-Bursh into the section in a deplorable state. He had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body,” the captive detailed in a deposition to lawyers from the Israeli human rights organisation HaMoked.
“The prison guards threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there. Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was unable to stand up. One of the prisoners helped him and accompanied him to one of the rooms. A few minutes later, prisoners were heard screaming from the room they went into, declaring Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was martyred,” the captive told the lawyers.