UN inquiry urges release of Palestinian doctor jailed by Israel
East Africa News
The inquiry commission urges Israel to release Hussam Abu Safia, citing credible reports he has suffered ‘severe abuse’.
A United Nations inquiry commission has called for Israel to immediately release a Palestinian doctor it has jailed without charge for more than 18 months.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory made the appeal on Wednesday for Hussam Abu Safia, the 52-year-old director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, saying there are credible reports he has faced “continued and severe abuse”.
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Analysis
Abu Safia’s lawyer Nasser Odeh has warned that the doctor’s health is in grave danger as he faces daily abuse. Rights groups and his family say he shows signs of having been regularly tortured.
During a recent visit, Abu Safia was found so severely wounded that Odeh struggled to recognise him, according to the rights group Physicians for Human Rights Israel.
Last month, footage of Abu Safia appearing via videolink before an Israeli court showed him looking noticeably thinner in his face and around his abdomen.
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