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A UN human rights group is warning that the life of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia is in imminent danger and is demanding his immediate release from \u201carbitrary\u201d Israeli detention.<\/p>\n
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found Israel\u2019s actions violated multiple articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe appropriate remedy would be to release [him] immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The UN rights body added that Abu Safia\u2019s case was one of many it has investigated and \u201cmay indicate a widespread or systematic practice of arbitrary detention in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n
Abu Safia\u2019s lawyer Nasser Odeh has warned that the doctor\u2019s health is in \u2060\u2060grave danger after being\u00a0subjected to brutal abuse on a \u2060\u2060daily basis.<\/p>\n
Rights groups and his family say he shows signs of having been regularly tortured.<\/p>\n
The Israel Prison Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Previously, it has rejected allegations that Abu Safia and \u200c\u200cother doctors have been mistreated in prison.<\/p>\n
The Israeli Supreme Court has previously declined to comment on appeals for \u200c\u200chis release.<\/p>\n
Abu Safia was the director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza when Israeli authorities detained him along with other medical staff and patients in December 2024. He has been held without charge ever since.<\/p>\n
The paediatrician had been a prominent voice highlighting Gaza\u2019s decimated healthcare sector and continued to work despite the death of one of his sons in an Israeli drone strike. Like many health workers before him, he was detained while caring for his patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hussam Abu Safia\u2019s family and lawyer say his life is in imminent danger and he shows signs of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,46,44,47,43,48,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-528724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}