Ghaid Qassem, doctor’s lawyer Abou Safiya, alerts the medical detention conditions in Gaza. The director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, was arrested by the Israeli army at the end of December. Recently, his lawyer could see him in the prison of Offer near Jerusalem, he told Sky News on Tuesday, July 22.
Hospi Abou Safiya lawyer says that “his detention conditions are extremely difficult, inhuman, with continuous assaults.” She denounces “brutal” attacks by prison agents.
The last one took place on June 24, according to Ghaid Qassem: The Doctor “was beaten and suffered bruises on the head, neck and back.” “Then he requested medical attention because he felt an abnormal heart rate, but his application was rejected,” he added.
“When I was young, seeing an older man, a respected doctor as Hussam Abu Safiya, broken in front of me, degraded, surrounded by prison guards, in the worst possible state, how are I supposed to feel?” She told Sky News.
Israel suspects that the doctor is a member of Hamas
The 51 -year -old, a pediatrician for training, was arrested because he is “suspected of being an active member of Hamas,” according to the Israeli army. For the Human Rights NGO Amnesty International, it is an “arbitrary” arrest that is part of a broader policy of systematic repression carried out by Israeli authorities against Gaza’s medical staff. “
With his calls to help transmitted on social networks and the media, Hussam Abu Safiya had become the face of a ruins health system in the territory devastated by war. His hospital was put out of service after the attack on Israel in December, during which the army said he had arrested “240 terrorists in Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other people suspected of terrorist activities.”
The doctor’s lawyer told Sky News that he only survived with two tablespoons of rice per day in detention. The inmates “cannot shower, their clothes do not change, not even their underwear,” he said. “Save is endemic, skin diseases are widespread and the most basic medical care is only provided when you discover that you are in the death article,” he added.
According to Amnesty International, “since October 2023, hundreds of members of the Palestinian medical profession have been arrested, subjecting them for many to disappear forced, torture and other ill -treatment.” The World Health Organization (WHO) denounced Israeli attacks on Monday against several of its Gaza Strip facilities, attacked by a new land offensive in its central part. The general director of the UN Agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in X that Israeli soldiers had entered the residence of the personnel in Deir El-Balah.
These “women and children (forced) soldiers to evacuate places on foot”, while “male staff and family members were handcuffed, naked, interviewed in the act and reviewed under the threat of a weapon,” he described. At least 59,029 people, mainly civilians, have been killed since the beginning of the Israeli offensive in Gaza in October 2023, according to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
