The Palestinian Prisoners Club said that new information regarding the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, who is detained by Israel, “confirms the escalation of the occupation’s attempts to liquidate him inside the prisons.”
The club, a non-governmental organization, explained in a statement on Saturday that the “serious information” conveyed by Abu Safiya’s lawyer, in cooperation with Physicians for Human Rights, “unequivocally reveals that the Israeli occupation authorities are escalating their direct targeting” of the Palestinian doctor.
He added that this targeting is done “by subjecting him to a systematic torture system and harsh detention conditions aimed at exhausting him physically and psychologically, in a clear extension of attempts to eliminate him inside prisons.”
Earlier on Saturday, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, a non-governmental organization, warned of an immediate threat to the life of Dr. Hossam Abu Safieh , director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, due to a serious deterioration in his health condition inside Nitzan Prison.
The organization said in a statement that information provided by Nasser Odeh, Abu Safiya’s lawyer, following his visit to the investigations section of Nitzan prison (in the city of Ramla in central Israel), indicates that he was subjected to repeated assaults and serious injuries, in addition to suffering from difficulty breathing and speaking, and a state of extreme exhaustion.
She added that the detained doctor appeared to be in a deteriorating physical and mental state , and that he had not received appropriate medical treatment.
The organization warned that delaying intervention could put his life at real risk.
The organization called on the Israeli authorities to immediately transfer him from his place of detention, and to allow an independent medical examination and an urgent visit from an official body.
The organization stressed that Israel bears full responsibility for the safety of those detained in its custody.
Abu Safiya has been detained since December 2024 without formal charges, under the “unlawful combatant” law, and an appeal for his release was rejected last month.
On February 14, 2025, the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights revealed that the commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli army, Major General Yaron Finkelman, had issued an order to transfer Abu Safiya to detention under what is known as the “Unlawful Combatant Law.”
Dr. Abu Safiya was transferred on June 3 from Negev Prison to “ solitary confinement in Nafha Prison” in southern Israel, before being recently transferred to “Nitzan” Prison, according to his lawyer.
The United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and international human rights and medical institutions have previously called for urgent intervention to ensure Abu Safiya’s safety and provide him with the necessary medical care.
In October 2025, Amnesty International, citing a lawyer who visited him and other detainees, said that Abu Safiya had been “subjected to abuse and other ill-treatment” during his detention.
The organization stated in a previous report that Abu Safiya continued to manage Kamal Adwan Hospital and provide medical care to children despite the deteriorating health and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, even after his son was killed in an Israeli raid, before the Israeli army arrested him from inside the hospital.
Israel continues to detain Abu Safiya, despite his repeated denials of engaging in any activity outside his medical profession, amid Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights demands for his immediate release.
According to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, the Israeli Knesset passed the “Unlawful Combatant Law” in 2002, which allows for the detention of individuals for indefinite periods without an indictment or the presentation of sufficient evidence in court.
The law deprives those detained under it of the guarantees granted to prisoners of war under the Third Geneva Convention, or to civilian detainees under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, according to the center.
It also grants Israeli courts broad powers to extend detention based on security suspicions, without obligating the authorities to disclose to the detainee or his lawyer the detailed reasons for the arrest.
There are approximately 9,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including children and women, who suffer from starvation, torture, and medical neglect, which has led to the deaths of dozens of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights reports.
On October 8, 2023, Israel, with American support, began a two-year warof genocide in Gaza, leaving approximately 73,000 martyrs and more than 173,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women,and causing destruction to 90 percent of the infrastructure.
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