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<p>Following the massacre on October 7th, 2023, Israel built a field hospital to care for wounded prisoners who were among the perpetrators of that massacre. Since Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, the facility has been caring for captured “unlawful combatants”. The hospital, which operated for nearly a year is made historically unique by its civilian, voluntary and makeshift structure of care on the medical side, along with the severe security measures imposed upon the patients-detainees. Based on extensive interviews with team members and related documents, this paper narrates the creation of this field hospital in its first five months of operation, its routines of care and key ethical challenges, from the perspective of its healthcare professionals, the hospital’s ethics committee and the Israel Ministry of Health. Caregivers are constantly torn between their professional standards and natural empathy, on the one hand, and, on the other, a strong need to distinguish their Hamas patients from all others, including heinous criminals and other Palestinian detainees captured outside the context of the war in Gaza. The hospital team members try to restrain their empathy, usually seeking professional limits between compassion and inhumanity. The second part of the article offers reflections on the peculiarities of the field hospital and the special care ethics developed there, from the perspectives of the biopsychosocial model and the sociological distinction between “bare life” and “political life”. Prison medicine, unlawful combatants, Geneva Convention, biopsychosocial model.</p>

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Humanization by depersonalization: historical contexts of the detainees’ hospital during the war in Gaza

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    2026年3月6日

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  • Y. M. Barilan

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Following the massacre on October 7th, 2023, Israel built a field hospital to care for wounded prisoners who were among the perpetrators of that massacre. Since Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, the facility has been caring for captured “unlawful combatants”. The hospital, which operated for nearly a year is made historically unique by its civilian, voluntary and makeshift structure of care on the medical side, along with the severe security measures imposed upon the patients-detainees. Based on extensive interviews with team members and related documents, this paper narrates the creation of this field hospital in its first five months of operation, its routines of care and key ethical challenges, from the perspective of its healthcare professionals, the hospital’s ethics committee and the Israel Ministry of Health. Caregivers are constantly torn between their professional standards and natural empathy, on the one hand, and, on the other, a strong need to distinguish their Hamas patients from all others, including heinous criminals and other Palestinian detainees captured outside the context of the war in Gaza. The hospital team members try to restrain their empathy, usually seeking professional limits between compassion and inhumanity. The second part of the article offers reflections on the peculiarities of the field hospital and the special care ethics developed there, from the perspectives of the biopsychosocial model and the sociological distinction between “bare life” and “political life”. Prison medicine, unlawful combatants, Geneva Convention, biopsychosocial model.