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• Humiliation, assaults and “selfies” in hospital beds.
A number of detainees stated that with the escalations since October 2015,
the Israeli guards in hospital rooms where injured detainees were kept have
intentionally exploited the detainees’ weakest moments and taken degrading
pictures of them on the guards’ personal phones. Bilal Amr Abu Ghanem, who
was arrested after he allegedly opened fire and stabbed passengers on Bus
78 in Jerusalem, was shot in the chest and hit with an expanding bullet in the
left foot. Despite his injuries, he was handcuffed behind his back and beaten
during the arrest. Abu Ghanem told Addameer lawyer that all the guards used
to beat and kick him, while the nurses in Hadassa Ein Karem hospital used
to curse and scream at him, hit his bed repeatedly, and not allow him to use
the bathroom for long periods of time. The deepest wounds, according to Abu
Ghanem, were the humiliation he faced when police officers had photographed
him naked in his hospital bed. Sometimes, a police officer would take out his
genitals and hold it close to Abu Ghanem’s face, while other officers would
take demeaning selfies with him. Addameer lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud
filed a complaint in the police interrogation unit on the matter.