Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip’

Cut off from the world and held in Israeli detention without charge, Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has endured repeated beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, and medical neglect since his arrest in Gaza, his lawyer told +972.

Abu Safiya, who was the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya until the Israeli army violently shut it down, is being held at Ofer Prison near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where attorney Gheed Kassem visited…