Where is Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia?And why did Israeli soldiers burn down Kamal Adwan Hospital?
On Friday, according to the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “The Israel Defense Forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on Friday, for the third time. According to the World Health Organization, the operation forced the last working hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to suspend operations. Fires broke out in the hospital's laboratory and surgery department, and five medical staff members, including a pediatrician, were killed by IDF fire.” [Link] Some 350 medical staff and patients were forced to leave the hospital. And they were forced to undress, in the freezing cold. Among them was Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya. At this moment his fate is unknown. According to this morning’s Democracy Now!, his family believes Dr. Abu Safiya has been moved to Israel’s notorious prison in the Negev Desert, where many medical staff have previously be subjected to torture and death. Since the Gaza war began, Israel has conducted 1,250 attacks on Gaza’s hospitals and medical facilities. More than half of Gaza’s hospitals has been destroyed, as was Kamal Adwan hospital over the weekend. About 1,000 of Gaza’s health and medical workers have been killed by Israel’s (US-supplied) shells and bombs. As Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah described in the Democracy Now! interview linked below, medical people are being killed at a much higher rate than the general population – they are being targeted by Israel for death. As Dr. Abu-Sittah explained this morning, while the official death toll in Gaza, compiled by the Gaza Ministry of Health, is now at 45,000, the real number of deaths is closer to 300,000. This includes the tens of thousands of Gazans buried under the rubble, as well as the tens of thousands who have died, and continue to die, from untreated wounds, malnutrition, and now freezing to death. Gaza’s cultural institutions - mosques, schools, universities, etc. - have been destroyed. " This can be described as “cultural genocide,” eliminating not only most of the people and seizing their land, but also destroying the common culture and collective memory of those people who are being targeted. The silence of the American Medical Association and similar organizations in Europe testifies to the moral depravity of our medical profession, who should be standing up for their colleagues in Gaza. Perhaps, if they were to raise their voices, they might change for the better the public non-discourse about the responsibilities of All countries – not just Israel – to stand up against genocide. Please share this info & your outrage with friends, especially doctors and medical people who might be able to change some things. HERE IS SOME USEFUL/INTERESTING READING & VIEWING ABOUT ALL THIS. (Video) Israel detains Dr Hussam Abu Safia after raiding Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza (Video) “A Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health System The willful and dangerous silence of the U.S. medical establishment on Gaza
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Monday, December 30, 2024
Where is Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia?
