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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was kidnapped by Israeli forces from the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza in 2024, has been transferred to solitary confinement in Israel after more than 500 days of detention without trial.

Abu Safiya was the director of Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, and kept the hospital running for more than 80 days under Israeli siege and bombardment in 2024. He refused to evacuate the hospital or abandon his patients there, even as Israel bombed the hospital.

In December 2024, Israeli forces stormed the hospital, which was the last major health facility functioning in northern Gaza at the time. During the raid, Israeli soldiers burnt and damaged parts of the hospital, and detained Abu Safiya along with the remaining medical staff and patients. According to reports, soldiers forced those who remained at the hospital to remove their clothes.

Until his detention, Abu Safiya was “one of the most prominent voices of Gaza’s decimated healthcare sector,” according to Amnesty International.

On Friday, Physicians for Human Rights Israel said that Abu Safiya was transferred to solitary confinement without........

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