News - Middle East: The lawyer of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, chief of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, has revealed that the doctor has suffered multiple broken ribs due to torture at the hands of Israeli interrogators.

According to Gheed Qassem, the torture was meant to force Dr. Abu Safiya to make false confessions that would be used against him.

Despite this, the doctor has refused to make any such confessions.

His lawyer also revealed that ever since his arrest, the Palestinian doctor has lost more than twenty kilograms, adding that he is suffering from arterial tension, cardiac arrhythmia, and vision problems.

Abu Safiya was abducted by Israeli forces during a raid on Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital in December 2024.

Israel has a long history of committing war crimes against medical workers, as well as attacks against healthcare infrastructure, including hospitals.

Last month, in violation of a ceasefire which had been in place since January, Israeli forces shocked the world when they killed more than 400 people in Gaza’s Christian Al-Ahli hospital.

The hospital had been bombed on April 13 during the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday.

Last week, Israeli forces also executed 15 paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza and then and buried them in a mass grave.

At first, the Israelis claimed that the paramedics had failed to use emergency lights on their vehicles. However, after video evidence proved that claim to be false, Israel simply claimed that the paramedics were “Hamas” operatives.

The doctor who carried out the postmortems of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives.

Another Israeli crime against medical workers also happened when Dr. Adnan Ahmad Al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon who worked with the Palestinian national football team, lost his life as a result of torture at the Israeli-run Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a joint statement that the head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the besieged Gaza Strip, died in what has been termed as "deliberate assassination” by the Israeli regime.

Source: Press TV