One of the few operating hospitals in northern Gaza has been shut down following an Israeli raid, and its director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, has been detained. His family believes he was badly injured during the raid and is being held in an Israeli prison. The raid has left the last major functioning hospital in northern Gaza out of service, despite it already lacking essential services.
One of the few doctors still working in northern Gaza has been taken to an Israel i prison and his hospital shut down, his family believe., according to his son, who has been told that the doctor’s leg was badly injured during a raid on the hospital by Israel i soldiers.
Abu Safiya had kept the hospital running through more than 80 days of siege and attacks by Israeli forces amid an intensive military operation in the surrounding refugee camp. Israel has not said where Abu Safiya or the hospital’s other missing medical personnel are being held but claimed that the hospital was being used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Hossam Abu Safiya, centre, supervises treatment of a Palestinian man injured in an Israeli airstrike, at Kamal Adwan hospital last month.it was “appalled” by the Israel raid, which has put the last major functioning hospital in northern Gaza out of service.
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