This paper investigates the plight of twenty-five Palestinian Jewish volunteers who lost their limbs while serving under the British Colonial army during WWII. In June 1945, the wounded men were being cared for in Alexandria’s General Hospital no. 3, which served disabled colonial soldiers from Mandate Palestine in need of rehabilitation. But the locally manufactured prostheses were poorly constructed, causing the amputees psychological and physical pain. Convinced that they deserved higher standards of care, these men demanded that they be transferred to England to be fitted with top-notch prostheses. But their status as “natives” rendered them ineligible for a benefit that was only granted to British soldiers. Thus, the amputees came to view prosthetic technology as an extension of the politics of imperial power, which distributed rewards based on hierarchies of race and ethnicity. This paper shows how the experience of pain caused the amputees to distance themselves from their asserted Jewish “nativeness” in Palestine in the hope of gaining access to an impressive technology that could remake their bodies. The story of the twenty-five amputees is significant because it testifies to the contradiction between the disabled veterans’ rejection of the British administrative classification of themselves as “natives” and the Zionist drive to assert Jewish nativeness in Palestine. This case study sheds light on the boundaries between nativeness and settlerhood, pain and relief, and being worthy and unworthy of care in colonial contexts.