Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, has drawn attention to the fate of the former director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was detained without charge by Israeli forces in December, Al Jazeera reports.
As the Kamal Adwan Hospital was destroyed in Israel attacks late last year, Hussam Abu Safia remained at his post and with patients until he was taken to Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman military detention camp in Israel’s Negev Desert.
Not charged with any crime, the doctor was later transferred to Ofer Prison, located near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
“This Doctor should have been safe by now, under protected status, and [revered] by international leaders as an icon of Ethics,” Albanese wrote on social media.
“Instead he is still a hostage of Israel, which has abducted him without ever charging him,” she said.
