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    Home - Israel - WHO demands Israel release Gaza hospital director
    Israel Updated:January 1, 2025

    WHO demands Israel release Gaza hospital director

    By Adnan Hindawi3 Mins Read
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    WHO demands Israel release Gaza hospital director

    WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom G, who last week was caught up in an Israeli strike against Yemen’s main airport that he said might have cost him his life, called for Abu Safiya’s immediate release. As the Israelites continue their genocide in Gaza.

    The WHO chief called Monday for the immediate release of Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is being held by Israel’s military following a major raid on the facility.

    The Friday-Saturday assault on Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia left northern Gaza’s last major health facility out of service and emptied of patients, the World Health Organisation said.

    WHO demands Israel release Gaza hospital director

    “Hospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

    “Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is out of service following the raid, forced patient and staff evacuation and the detention of its director. His whereabouts are unknown. We call for his immediate release.”

    Israeli forces also detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital on Friday, among them its director Hussam Abu Safiya, according to health authorities in the enclave and Israel’s military.

    The military said had detained Abu Safiyeh, suspecting him of being a Hamas militant.

    When asked if he had been transferred to Israeli territory for further questioning, the military did not offer an immediate comment.

    Tedros said the patients in critical condition at Kamal Adwan had been moved to the Indonesian Hospital, “which is itself out of function”.

    “Amid ongoing chaos in northern Gaza, WHO and partners today delivered basic medical and hygiene supplies, food and water to Indonesian Hospital and transferred 10 critical patients to Al-Shifa Hospital,” he said.

    “We urge Israel to ensure their health care needs and rights are upheld.”

    He said seven patients along with 15 caregivers and health workers remained at the “severely damaged” Indonesian Hospital, “which has no ability to provide care”.

    “Al-Ahli Hospital and Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in Gaza City also faced attacks today and both are damaged,” Tedros added.

    “We repeat: stop attacks on hospitals. People in Gaza need access to health care. Humanitarians need access to provide health aid.”

    Tedros himself was caught up in an Israeli strike against Yemen’s main airport that he said might have cost him his life.

    At least 45,541 Palestinians have been killed and 108,338 wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

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