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Dr. Issam Abu Ajwa, a surgeon from Gaza who was recently freed from Israeli prisons, tells the Guardian: ⭕ "Interrogators were told to work hard to make sure that I lost the use of my hands and became unable to perform surgery." ⭕ "During interrogations, I was tortured and beaten. They would throw me on the ground. One would hit me on the head while the other opened my ear and poured water inside." ⭕ "There was a bathroom [in the interrogation room] … they would take a toilet brush and tell me ‘today we are going to brush your teeth." ⭕ "I was tied up, blindfolded and three or four of them held my face, pinned it down and kept scrubbing." ⭕ "One of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery."