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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has called for the immediate release of Palestinian healthcare workers imprisoned by Israel.<\/p>\n
The NGO said<\/a> in a statement on Monday that it was \u201coutraged by the treatment of healthcare workers, most of whom are being detained in dire conditions, without justification or cause\u201d.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n MSF highlighted the case of Dr Hussam Abu Safia<\/a>, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who is in solitary confinement and has reportedly been tortured since being detained by Israel more than a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n His treatment \u201cfollows an appalling pattern of the Israeli authorities detaining and targeting medical staff across Palestine\u201d, the organisation said.<\/p>\n The Physicians for Human Rights Israel group reports that more than 50 healthcare workers are currently being held in inhumane conditions<\/a>\u00a0by Israel, including 15 doctors. It has petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court for their release.<\/p>\n According to Healthcare Workers Watch figures from<\/a> April, 446 Palestinian healthcare workers have been unlawfully detained by Israeli forces since Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023. Six have reportedly been killed in detention, their bodies still held by Israel.<\/p>\n MSF also called for the \u201cimmediate and unconditional release\u201d of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Mohammed Obeid, who has been imprisoned for more than 600 days, after being arrested while working at Kamal Adwan Hospital.<\/p>\n MSF noted that \u201cfor too long, too many world leaders have failed to condemn Israel\u2019s conduct in Palestine. Silence has become complicity\u201d.<\/p>\n It added that all arbitrarily detained medical personnel must be granted access to adequate medical care and dignified conditions pending their release from detention.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, a UN Independent International Commission<\/a> of Inquiry \u2060on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the UN Working Group<\/a> on Arbitrary Detention both called for Israel to release Abu Safia, and all medical personnel arbitrarily detained.<\/p>\n His lawyer, Nasser Odeh, warned that the doctor\u2019s health was in danger, and that he showed signs of regular torture. Israel is holding the paediatrician without trial, having classed him as an \u201cunlawful combatant\u201d.<\/p>\n Before he was abducted by Israeli forces, Abu Safia had been a prominent voice highlighting the effects of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NGO is \u2018outraged\u2019 by Israel\u2019s treatment of the health professionals and warns that \u2018silence has become complicity\u2019.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,803,2563,129,3,2485],"class_list":["post-774972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}