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Dr Hussam Abu Safia Faces ‘Major Health Deterioration’ In Israeli Custody

August 6, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
The head of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Doctor Hussam Abu Safia, is experiencing a major deterioration in his health due to severe torture and beatings inflicted by Israeli jailers, the Palestinian Prisoners Information Office informed on 5 August. The Palestinian doctor is currently being held in Israel’s underground Rakevet torture center, located within Nitzan Prison. Abu Safia was targeted during a brutal raid by Israeli officers at the facility on 27 July.  According to the statement, Palestinian prisoners were beaten with batons, shocked with electricity, exposed to tear gas, and shot with rubber bullets.

Israel Is Murdering Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

July 8, 2026 James North, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
By now, editors at the New York Times and producers at CNN are surely squirming over what to do about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Gazan doctor and hospital director who Israel has locked up for a year and a half without trial, and who says his jailers are trying to kill him. Worldwide campaigns, by Amnesty International and other human rights groups, have called for Dr. Abu Safiya’s release and global media coverage has been significant. Britain’s flagship newspaper, the Guardian, has naturally already reported about Dr. Abu Safiya. Here is its July 6 headline: “Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israel jail, lawyer says.”

Dr. Hussam Abu Safia Faces Risk Of Death In Israeli Prison

July 5, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the Kamal Adwan Hospital director who was abducted from Gaza by Israel in late 2024, is facing an immediate risk of death due to the torture and severe negligence he has been subjected to by his jailers, the physician’s lawyer said on 4 July.  “Alarming new information conveyed by … Abu Safia's lawyer, in cooperation with Physicians for Human Rights, conclusively demonstrates that Israeli occupation authorities are intensifying direct targeting of Dr. Abu Safia by subjecting him to systematic torture and harsh detention conditions,” Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) said.

Red Ribbons Event Highlights Crisis Facing Palestinian Hostages

June 20, 2026 Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
London – Emotional testimonies, legal arguments, and political interventions marked a high-profile solidarity event held at SOAS University of London on Friday evening, as speakers warned that the situation of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli detention has reached what they described as “unprecedented levels of brutality” amid the ongoing war on Gaza. The event, organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in partnership with the Red Ribbons Campaign, brought together campaign coordinator Adnan Hmidan, ICJP director Tayb Ali, lawyer Khaled Mahajneh, Palestinian activist Saif Abu Keshek, campaigner Katrina Graham, and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn.

Flotilla Activists’ Harrowing Experience In Israeli Torture Dungeon

June 18, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , , , , ,
Since the Zionist siege of Gaza began 19 years ago, people from around the world have been organizing to break through it and establish a humanitarian corridor to guarantee that Palestinians receive the supplies they need to survive. International flotillas are one way people challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza. As is occurring with all forms of resistance to the Zionist State, retaliation against activists is escalating. Participants on the most recent flotillas have been subjected to abuse, torture and rape perpetrated by the Israelis with near impunity.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Appears In Court For The First Time

June 12, 2026 Aseel Saleh, Breakthrough News. , , , ,
In yet another attempt to break the will of Palestinians and their supporters around the globe, Israeli occupation authorities released new footage of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya in hand and foot shackles. The footage, taken during his first appearance before an Israeli court on Wednesday, June 10, shows his health condition remarkably deteriorating. My detention is “unjust” and arbitrary and I demand my immediate release, Abu Safiya maintained. This is the second time that footage surfaced revealing the dire situation of the prominent Palestinian physician under Israeli custody.

Lawsuits Claim Cruel Conditions At Delaney Hall

June 6, 2026 Jose Pagliery, Not Us. , , , ,
Newark, N.J. — A woman says in court papers that guards starved her for five days straight. A man claims “conditions violate basic standards of human dignity.” And several plead for help as the drinking water tastes like “raw sewage.” The mistreatment of immigrant detainees that has led to daily protests outside a privately-run ICE jail in New Jersey is laid bare in lawsuits describing deplorable conditions as well as first-hand accounts of wretched treatment some believe is intentionally cruel. NOTUS visited the site on Thursday just as the Delaney Hall detention facility released Emanuel Rodrigues, a Brazilian man with a rare life-threatening medical condition, who spent what he says were 130 excruciating days in solitary confinement — labeled “medical isolation” by officials.

Israel Delegitimized Itself With Its Attacks On The Flotilla

May 30, 2026 James Marc Leas, Substack. , , , ,
It began as a human rights mission: over 600 civilians on 72 boats from more than 45 countries, seeking to break Israel’s 19-year siege of Gaza. It ended with two Israeli-government assaults in international waters, including kidnappings, beatings, torture, sexual abuse, and violations of international law. And crucially, it ended with Israel losing legitimacy, not just with the public but also among its own allies on a scale not seen since South Africa lost its own legitimacy in the Apartheid era. On April 29, Israeli commandos boarded 22 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla 80 nautical miles from Greece.

Rape, Assault And Abuse Are Signature Israeli Government Values

May 26, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , ,
It has been only 72 hours since our colleagues on the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul, Turkiye to tell of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, security personnel on the prison ship, civilian police at the Ashdod processing center and guards at the notoriously abusive Ktzi’ot prison. The 72 hours feel like weeks as we heard the stories from each of the 428 unarmed civilians from 45 countries who were on 50 small sailboats, kidnapped in international waters and taken against their will to a place they did not want to go-Israel-and then subjected to criminal abuse from personnel from a multitude of Israeli security institutions. 

Malaysia To Take Israel To ICJ Over ‘Torture’ Of Gaza Flotilla Activists

May 26, 2026 Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye. , , , , , ,
Malaysia is preparing to take legal action against Israel at the International Court of Justice over the reported abuse of Gaza-bound aid flotilla activists after they were seized from international waters last week, an official said on Monday . According to Amirudin Shari, the chief minister of the state of Selangor, the Malaysian government plans to file a case once lawyers complete the collection of evidence and testimonies. The move comes amid mounting international criticism of Israeli forces over allegations of torture, sexual violence and abuse against around 430 Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) activists, including Malaysian citizens, who were later deported to their respective countries.

Global Sumud Flotilla Releases Horrific, Newly Emerging Testimonies

May 25, 2026 the Global Sumud Flotilla. , , , ,
 As civilian participants from the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) begin landing in their respective home countries and some continue their recovery in Istanbul, the full, devastating scale of the violence executed by the israeli Occupation Forces (iOF) is being laid bare. Following the most recent unlawful interception of the flotilla in international waters on 18 May, newly emerging and harrowing testimonies confirm a coordinated campaign of systematic torture, severe physical and psychological trauma, and targeted gender-based and sexual violence. 

Basque Police Beat Global Sumud Flotilla Torture Survivors In Spain

May 24, 2026 Ahmed Eldin, Out Loud. , , , , , , ,
The video from Bilbao Airport today is as brutal as it is bewildering. Six Basque activists walk through arrivals, fresh from being intercepted, detained, and abused by Israeli forces while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, carrying physical and psychological scars from their encounter with the Israeli military. Basque police, the Ertzaintza, descended on Loiu Airport with batons drawn. They attacked the activists and the friends and family who had gathered to welcome them home. Four people were arrested, charged with “desobediencia grave, resistencia y atentado a agente de la autoridad” — the standard playbook for criminalizing solidarity.

The Case Of Dr. Abu Safiya And Gaza’s Broken Medical System

April 8, 2026 Ramzy Baroud, AntiWar.com. , , , ,
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they said. His health condition is “dire.” Many are already familiar with the iconic Palestinian doctor from Gaza. But the deserved and urgent focus on his case should not end with him. Rather, it should illuminate the broader catastrophe afflicting Gaza’s health sector – one deliberately dismantled as part of the ongoing genocide that began on October 7, 2023.

UN Experts Demand Release Of Gaza Doctor Abu Safiya

March 25, 2026 Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye. , , , , , ,
Two United Nations experts have called on Israel to immediately release Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya from detention following reports that he had been subjected to "severe torture".  Special Rapporteurs Tlaleng Mofokeng and Ben Saul said on Tuesday that the former director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza faced severe torture and "other cruel and degrading treatment", leaving him in a "dire" health condition. “The conditions of his detention appear to be flagrantly arbitrary and manifestly inconsistent with the Mandela Rules, which establish the obligation of states to ensure prisoners have access to healthcare," they added. 

Journalists Jailed By ICE Are Revealing The Horrors Of Incarceration

February 21, 2026 Jeremy Busby, Truthout. , , ,
For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the unchecked inhumane treatment and deplorable conditions inside U.S. jails, detention centers, and prisons. But as a result of the Trump administration’s escalation of anti-immigrant violence and efforts to quell all dissent, professional journalists and writers, who normally are severely restricted from entering into the U.S.’s carceral facilities, are now themselves experiencing the harsh realities that nearly 2.1 million incarcerated people are subjected to daily in this country.
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