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Physicians for Human Rights calls for releasing Dr. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. His kidnapping and imprisonment is 'a profound moral failure. " judicial review proceedings for Palestinian detainees from Gaza have, in practice, become little more than a procedural formality. … Every month, hundreds of detention review hearings take place, yet to the best of our knowledge, they have not resulted in the meaningful reconsideration or revocation of detention orders, even in cases involving doctors and other medical personnel."

Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is being held in solitary confinement at Nafha Prison in southern Israel under harsh conditions and is not receiving adequate medical treatment for his condition.

Israel's top court rejects appeal for release of Gaza doctor held without charge Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, Has Been Held Since 2024 Under the Unlawful Combatants Law, Which Permits the Arrest of Foreign Nationals Alleged to Belong to Terrorist Groups or to Have Taken Part in Hostile Actions. Physicians for Human Rights Called the Ruling 'A P...

“B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization I lead, has documented this system through testimonies from released Palestinian detainees who were held in various Israeli facilities. At any given moment, thousands of Palestinians are held inside this system. Their testimonies reveal a regime of deliberate sexual harassment and abuse, humiliation, violence, starvation, and severe physical and psychological torture. Sexual violence is one part of a broader system that denies Palestinians rights and dignity, treating them not as human beings but as bodies that can be humiliated, broken and discarded. The accounts themselves are as consistent as they are gruesome. In testimonies collected and verified by B’Tselem, Palestinians held in Israeli custody describe sexual violence used as a tool of torture and domination: forced nudity, severe beatings to the ge****ls, dogs set on naked prisoners and forced a**l pe*******on with objects.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/14/palestinian-prisoners-sexual-torture-israel-backlash?fbclid=IwY2xjawSVRXZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEehl1MYAuHxnlcE5vlcCR_QII131WCTpV5bf-tEVnJS0NSby7fVMojIq1tLc4_aem_3k11_xLV2VwZ4758ZWtCPw

The backlash to revelations of sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners aims to raise the cost of speaking out | Yuli Novak Israel’s response to recent New York Times reporting detailing the horrific sexual violence inflicted on detainees seeks to silence those who assert the basic fact of Palestinian humanity

Silence is complicity.
Never Again should mean never again to anyone.

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“Rampant sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is a thing; it’s been normalized,”
Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards

Opinion | The Silence That Meets the R**e of Palestinians (Gift Article) Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.