Astonishing that it has taken more than a year for the Guardian to catch up with this story of hundreds of Palestinian medics being disappeared into Israel's torture chambers.

Here's the testimony of Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of al-Shifa hospital, who was held hostage and tortured by Israel for seven months:

“I am talking about clubbing, being beaten with rifle butts and being attacked by dogs. There was little to no food, no personal hygiene, no soap inside the cells, no water, no toilet, no toilet paper … I saw people who were dying there … I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.”

The Guardian notes:

"Two of Gaza’s most senior doctors – Dr Iyad al-Rantisi, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kamal Adwan hospital, and Dr Adnan al-Bursh, head of the orthopaedic department at al-Shifa hospital – are known to have died in detention."

"Died in detention" is the Guardian's euphemism for their being "tortured to death by Israel".