Israel Refuses To Release Two Senior Gaza Doctors

Israel continues to play games with the prisoner lists agreed upon during the negotiation process. A Hamas source told CNN that Israel refuses to release two doctors whom it kidnapped from Gaza, further undermining the peace agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh. “The occupation refused to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Oct. 10. Dr. Abu Safiya was the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who surrendered to Israeli troops in December 2024, after a raid on the hospital. CNN noted that Israel claimed, without providing evidence, that he was “suspected of being a Hamas terrorist operative.” The physician has not been brought before a judge, interrogated or informed of the legal grounds of his detention since March, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) has declared. Just last month, PHRI said Israel had inflicted starvation, abuse and invasive cell searches on Dr. Abu Safiya.