Gaza hospital chief Abu Safiya, a Hamas officer held in Israel, looks thinner in 1st photo since Feb. 2025

A photo of Hussam Abu Safiya, the Gaza hospital director and officer in Hamas’s Military Medical Services, is publicized during an appeal hearing held this evening at Israel’s Supreme Court regarding his transfer to solitary confinement, which was reported by Physicians for Human Rights Israel earlier this week.

The image was taken inside his cell, from which he joined the hearing via video call. He appears thinner than he did before his arrest in 2024. The photo is the first image of him since one taken in February 2025, when he was brought to court for a remand hearing. He has yet to be charged.

The court has not yet issued a decision on the appeal, though one is expected in the coming hours.

He appears very weak and sick..

Dr Hussam abu Safiyeh appeared today in the Israeli High Court in occupied Jerusalem.. pic.twitter.com/qa4IETEkkE

— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) June 10, 2026

Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was arrested by Israel during the war in Gaza in December 2024. He is one of the highest-profile Gazan detainees, and human rights groups have called for his release.

Following his arrest, a decade-old photo surfaced showing him wearing Hamas uniforms alongside senior members of the terror group. Abu Safiya holds the rank of colonel in the terror group’s Military Medical Services, according to the service and Palestinian media reports.

The Military Medical Services is separate from Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, though its members directly participated in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught in southern Israel, which sparked the war.