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April 17, 2025

Dr. Abu Safiya's Lawyer Warns Kamal Adwan Director Is Being Tortured in Prison
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Palestinians are marking the annual Prisoner's Day holiday with marches
demanding the release of political prisoners. Rights groups say there
are nearly 10,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli jails. Four
hundred of them are children. More than a third are being held without
charge under Israel's so-called administrative detention policy.

On Wednesday a lawyer for the jailed director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan
Hospital, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, said his client had experienced
beatings, mistreatment and torture inside Israel's notorious Ofer
Prison. The lawyer, who was last able to visit Dr. Abu Safiya on March
19, said, "He is suffering greatly. He is exhausted from the torture,
the pressure and the humiliation he has endured to force him to confess
to acts he did not commit."


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