Kamal Adwan hospital director who has been tortured and beaten in detention remains outrageously classified as ‘unlawful combatant’
Kamal Adwan hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who was detained after the Israeli military destroyed the hospital and killed dozens of patients and staff, was placed in so-called ‘special detention’ under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatant” law last month, putting him in open-ended detention without trial, where he has been brutally beaten and tortured. Hopes that he might be released as part of prisoner exchanges during the recent Gaza ‘ceasefire’ were unfulfilled – and an occupation court has now extended his detention for at least the next six months.
“Unlawful Combatant” law deprives detainees of their human right to due legal process and a fair trial, without even the right to be informed of any charges against them or to challenge supposed evidence – and the Beersheba Central Court issued a further approval yesterday for Abu Safiya’s continued detention under the law, which has been widely condemned as unlawful and a breach of human rights.
Abu Safiya became well known as the spokesman for the now-destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital and as a doctor who refused to leave his patients, his staff, and his hospital until he was taken hostage by occupation forces, who also murdered his son. He has been extensively tortured and yesterday, his lawyer Ghaid Qassem said that he had sustained a serious eye injury as a result of beatings by his captors:
Several other doctors remain in captivity. The few who have been released report torture, beating and guards’ efforts to destroy their hands – as has US volunteer surgeon Dr Mark Perlmutter. One, Dr Adnan al-Bursh, died in detention from injuries sustained during sexual violence and rape. His body has still not been released to his family.
Doctors’, lawyers’ and human rights groups, and UN human rights experts, have called for the immediate release of all medics held in this manner by Israel.
Please remember to support Skwawkbox if you can, to help ensure it can keep running. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as it is and not what the Establishment wants you to hear – and can afford to without hardship – please click here to arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal or here to set up a monthly donation via GoCardless (Skwawkbox will contact you to confirm the GoCardless amount as it has to be entered by us). Alternatively, if you prefer to make a one-off or recurring donation by simple card payment, please use the form below:
Make a one-time donation
Make a monthly donation
Make a yearly donation
Choose an amount
Or enter a custom amount
Your support is hugely appreciated.
Your support is hugely appreciated.
Your support is hugely appreciated.
DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyThanks for your solidarity so Skwawkbox can keep doing its job of inconveniencing the right and helping to build the left!
If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so, but please include the donor information above – see here for more.
What era does this remind people of – a time when Israelis reckoned similar happened to their forefathers? I wonder why they consider it OK now?
But israel HAS that right. Keef says so.
Meanwhile, the absence of a certain someone hasn’t gone unnoticed….😙🎶
And as it hasn’t had the stones to come on here today to beat it’s pigeon chest about how right thieves is to further impoverish the already impoverished, while the OBR and Rowntree Foundation both say that thieves won’t even ‘save’ the £5bn promised by its welfare cuts…
…I’ll challenge it again to answer the question:
“What WAS the point?
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2025/03/19/whats-the-point-of-labour-starmer-in-backlash-over-5bn-in-benefits-cuts/
But the gobshite won’t even answer that, because the gobshite is as yellow as his political heroes are blue.
SteveH24/03/2025 at 11:55 pm
Toffee – Come back and tell me all about it after the Chancellor’s spring statement.
Well – here I am
😙🎶
Westminster: Police raid Quaker Meeting House
Cato PeddarMar 28th, 2025
Source: Quakers in Britain
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House in London last night (27 March 2025) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
In the following statement, the Quakers say: “We strongly condemn the violation of our place of worship which is a direct result of stricter protest laws removing virtually all routes to challenge the status quo.
“Just before 7.15pm more than 20 uniformed police, some carrying tasers, forced their way into Westminster Meeting House.
“They broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room.
“The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 have criminalised many forms of protest and allow police to halt actions deemed too disruptive.
Meanwhile, changes in judicial procedures limit protestors’ ability to defend their actions in court. All this means that there are fewer and fewer ways to speak truth to power.
“Quakers support the right to nonviolent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against injustice and for our planet.
“Many have taken nonviolent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of slavery to women’s suffrage and prison reform.”
Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.
“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy.”
Starmer’s Britain. Kowtowing to Israel AGAIN!