GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Director General of the Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, Munir al-Bursh, called for real action to ensure the release of the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, from Israeli detention.
“Abu Safiya was seen in Sde Teiman Prison and signs of beating and torture appeared on his body. The Israeli occupation denied at first his arrest and then admitted it,” al-Bursh added.
Abu Safiya was arrested on December 27, when Israeli forces stormed the bombed-out Kamal Adwan Hospital following a nearly three-month blockade of northern Gaza.
All medical staff, patients and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear and transferred to an unknown location.
The last photo of Abu Safiya showed him walking alone towards a row of Israeli tanks that had amassed outside the facility.
Calls are growing for Israel to release Abu Safiya, with the World Health Organization (WHO) saying it was “appalled” by the raid and MedGlobal, a humanitarian NGO providing healthcare in disaster areas, demanding his immediate release.
