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L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025. (Democracy Now screenshot/YouTube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)
June 16, 2026, 2:05 pm
Supreme Court rejects appeal of Gaza hospital chief, a Hamas officer detained by Israel
Hussam Abu Safiya, who runs Kamal Adwan Hospital and is a colonel in Hamas Military Medical Services, has been in administrative detention since 2024, now in solitary confinement
By Jeremy Sharon
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
April 30, 2026, 8:30 pm
Rats infest Gaza’s tent camps, biting children and spreading disease
IDF kills Hamas operative allegedly planning attacks on troops, three reported dead in separate airstrike; Israeli NGO petitions for release of Gazan doctors held without charges
By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
Palestinians inspect the damage around Gaza's Shifa Hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital after two weeks fighting terror groups there, on April 1, 2024 (AFP)
January 13, 2026, 8:52 am
Celebrities, NGOs sign letter accusing Israel of ‘direct attack’ on Gaza health care
Some 60 actors, human rights groups and Palestinian medical personnel demand unfettered aid to Palestinians, use language lifted from Genocide Convention, accuse Israel of targeting civilians
By ToI Staff
Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
November 17, 2025, 3:19 pm
Palestinian prisoner deaths spike amid systematic abuse, neglect, rights group finds
Former prison guard says it was ‘business as usual’ when he came to work and found dead prisoner; commanders who participated in beatings told guards to reduce number of deaths
By SAM MEDNICK
Prof. Dan Turner (courtesy) / The transfer of Palestinian men arrested during a military raid on Jenin, January 22, 2025. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
August 13, 2025, 11:53 pm
What Matters Now to Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human
Senior pediatric gastroenterologist and human rights activist weighs in on horrific images of malnourished children in Gaza and why their underlying medical conditions are not the problem
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
People survey the damage from a reported Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025. (AFP)
July 28, 2025, 4:49 pm
In first, two major Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Report marks first time that leading Israeli human rights watchdogs have made the accusation, which Israel vehemently denies
By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and AP
Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, 'The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs,' in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah March 26, 2025. (Nasser Nasser/AP)
April 6, 2025, 2:01 pm
Doctor says Palestinian teen who died in Israeli prison showed starvation signs
Summary by Israeli doctor who observed autopsy does not conclude cause of death, but notes Walid Ahmad, 17, was in state of extreme weight loss, muscle wasting
By AP and ToI Staff
A young Palestinian amputee evacuated from the Gaza Strip sits in a wheelchair as a medic looks on, aboard an Emirati floating hospital in the Egyptian port of Al-Arish on July 4, 2024, during an organised press tour. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
July 29, 2024, 6:07 pm
High Court gives government 7 days to come up with Gaza medical evacuation policy
Hours earlier, Netanyahu canceled evacuation of 150 ill and injured children from Gaza; petitioner says decision ‘cruel and dangerous,’ based on ‘cynical political moves’
By Jeremy Sharon
Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 28, 2024, 6:23 pm
IDF sets up committee to probe alleged torture of Palestinian terror suspects
Admitting logistic issues in processing captives from Gaza, military says panel will examine conditions of detainees at facilities to determine compliance with international law
By Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon
Suspected terrorists who were caught during the October 7 massacre and during the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
May 23, 2024, 1:52 pm
Rights groups petition court to shutter Negev detention facility over torture claims
Organizations cite evidence detained Gazans had surgery without anesthesia, held in agonizing positions; state approves autopsy request for Gazan doctor who died in custody
By ToI Staff
An Israeli soldier escorts a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian teenager through the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, October 24, 2022. (Courtesy; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 25, 2022, 4:21 pm
In ‘error,’ Palestinian teen escorted through hospital while handcuffed, blindfolded
Military says incident at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital ‘should not have occurred’; rights group slams apparent violation of medical ethics
By Emanuel Fabian
In this photo from March 26, 2017, Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip pray as they wait on the Israeli side of the Erez terminal to cross into Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
June 2, 2021, 12:59 pm
Despite ceasefire, most Gazans seeking medical care still can’t enter Israel
Many treatments, including chemotherapy, unavailable in Hamas-ruled enclave; Israeli military says only ‘urgent’ cases allowed into Israel due to security situation
By Aaron Boxerman
Maher al-Akhras, a 49-year-old security prisoner, while on hunger strike in Kaplan hospital in Rehovot, October 8, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)
October 24, 2020, 5:33 pm
Israeli lawmaker says he’ll join hunger strike of Palestinian security prisoner
Joint List’s Ofer Cassif protests refusal to allow Maher al-Akhras’s family to visit; Israeli authorities say he is dangerous — but also plan to free him in November
By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman
Maher al-Akhras, a 49-year-old security prisoner, while on hunger strike in Kaplan hospital in Rehovot, October 8, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)
October 14, 2020, 6:57 pm
After 81 days, hunger-striking Palestinian security prisoner at death’s door
Maher al-Akhras was detained in July by Israeli authorities, who say he is a dangerous Islamic Jihad activist, but also plan to free him in November; he denies the accusation
By Aaron Boxerman
A group of Palestinian nurses from the West Bank and Gaza Strip taking part in a special four-day medical simulation course at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan on January 1, 2020. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
January 2, 2020, 5:51 pm
Palestinian nurses from West Bank and Gaza hone their skills at Israeli hospital
Health care professionals train on high-tech mannequins; nurse from Nablus says medicine transcends national divisions
By Adam Rasgon
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