Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has been detained by Israel for a year and a half without trial and says his jailers are trying to kill him. His case has made international headlines, yet it is being ignored in the U.S. Why?
Fourteen Gazan physicians remain in Israeli prisons without charge, where they say they have been singled out for particularly severe abuse. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of Gaza’s most beloved.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli detention since December 2024, is in a “dire” health condition, United Nations experts warned as they called for his immediate release.
One year ago, an iconic photo from Gaza went viral of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya walking through rubble in Gaza to be detained by Israeli forces. Today, Safiya is still being held without charges, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the New York Times.
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The hope is that Abu Safiya will not suffer the fate of his colleague, the former head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital. After four months of abuse at Ofer prison, Bursh was dumped by guards in its yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand. He died a short time later.
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