Rights Groups, Colleagues Demand Release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Amid Reports of Torture By Israel

[Uncle Joe]

Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge. After seeing Dr. Abu Safiya on July 2, his attorney Nasser Odeh says the doctor faces "tangible danger to his life" from torture and medical neglect. For more, we speak to Tirza Leibowitz, the deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, about Abu Safiya's case and efforts to secure his release. The group has filed an appeal in the Israeli courts requesting the release of Abu Safiya and 13 other Palestinian doctors who were captured in Gaza and imprisoned by the Israeli military.

We also hear from Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Chicago-based emergency room physician and former colleague of Hussam Abu Safiya. Ahmad volunteered as a medical practitioner in Gaza in 2024. He says Abu Safiya has become a "symbol of Palestinian resilience" and, in particular, Israel's systematic targeting of Gaza's healthcare system, which continues to this day. "The necessary aid is not entering, the bombing still persists, people are still dying on a regular basis, and these hospitals don't have the supplies that they need to be able to treat their patients," says Ahmad.

[questionseverything]

1. AIPAC supports Israel imprisoning Gaza's lead doctor

Without charges and beats and tortures him for over a year and du ignores it, as per usual

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If they will illegally hold and torture doctors what wouldn’t they do to influence a primary?

[Uncle Joe]

2. I wouldn't be surprised

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"Poll: 30% of GOP voters support bombing Agrabah, the city from Aladdin"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/18/republican-voters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump

We have been dumbing down our own society for far too long in regards to the rest of the world at the altar of selling everything while promoting that "ignorance actually is bliss;" which in turn makes promoting mindless fear, and racism a snap.

That breeds tribalism; which taken to its' zenith or nadir depending on how you view it brought us World War I; and all that tragedy spawned to date.