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Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release as part of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 15, 2026, 7:16 pm
Rights groups report ‘dangerous’ surge in use of rubber bullets on Palestinian inmates
Some shootings in Israeli jails caused severe injuries that went untreated, according to documents; one detainee’s testicle was removed after it was reportedly ‘crushed’ by bullet
By SAM MEDNICK
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)
July 5, 2026, 10:57 am
Life of detained Gaza hospital chief/Hamas officer at immediate risk, lawyer says
Rights group claims Hussam Abu Safiya undergoes daily beatings, bears fresh wounds that made him barely recognizable during lawyer visit; prisoner said to say he doesn’t think he’ll survive
By ToI Staff
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
Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip are seen in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
April 7, 2025, 7:00 pm
Released Palestinian prisoners allege abuse by Israeli military, prison staff
BBC airs harrowing testimonies of torture, medical neglect, and inhumane treatment at Sde Teiman detention facility; IDF rejects claims of systemic mistreatment
By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians evacuate patients from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for the area on August 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
October 18, 2024, 3:15 pm
High Court tells state to draw up formal procedure for Gaza medical evacuations
Human rights groups noted in a June petition that 14,000 Gazan civilians are in need of medical treatment outside Gaza; only 225 have since been evacuated
By Jeremy Sharon
Carola Eisenberg (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 19, 2021, 9:54 pm
Carolina Eisenberg, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights, dies at 103
The psychiatrist, born to Jewish emigres in Argentina, was first female dean of students at MIT, Harvard Medical School
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Hamas policemen wear face masks as they guard in a street in Gaza City, during a 48 hour lockdown, August 25, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 25, 2020, 7:21 pm
Gaza locks down after detecting local transmission of coronavirus
Hamas announces 48-hour curfew after four cases confirmed in al-Maghazi refugee camp, but hundreds still take part in funeral of 4 PIJ fighters killed in ‘work accident’
By Agencies
Palestinian Hamas police officers wear protective suits as they take part in a simulation of possible coronavirus infections in Gaza City, Saturday, July 18, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 24, 2020, 11:50 pm
Gaza sees first COVID-19 cases outside of quarantine facilities
Health authorities in Hamas-run Strip announce strict 48-hour lockdown as 4 cases identified in refugee camp, raising specter of community spread after virus kept at bay for months
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinians at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
August 9, 2020, 7:51 pm
With PA coordination halted, sick Gazans still have no mechanism to enter Israel
After 2.5 months, UN hasn’t set up alternate method for facilitating patients’ transfer for urgent treatment, report says; Jerusalem said to only approve half of emergency requests
By ToI Staff
Palestinians are seen crossing at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
June 25, 2020, 8:17 am
Gaza baby’s death blamed on PA’s halting of coordination with Israel
8-month-old was scheduled to have heart surgery in Israel, but Palestinians ceased handling entry permit requests in protest of planned Israeli annexation
By Aaron Boxerman
Destruction at the entrance of a hospital in the village of Kafr Nabl, south of the jihadist-held Syrian province of Idlib, May 5, 2019, reportedly hit by Russian airstrikes. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
October 14, 2019, 6:06 pm
Russia denies report it bombed four Syria hospitals
Moscow says evidence provided in NY Times exposé ‘not worth the paper it was printed on,’ claims outlet is victim of ‘manipulation by terrorists and British security services’
By ToI Staff
Destruction at the entrance of a hospital in the village of Kafr Nabl, south of the jihadist-held Syrian province of Idlib, May 5, 2019, reportedly hit by Russian airstrikes. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
October 13, 2019, 2:42 pm
Russia bombed 4 Syria hospitals in May to save Assad rule — exposé
New York Times cross-references videos of strikes, eyewitness records and thousands of internal communications to conclude facilities were targeted with Russian precision missiles
By ToI Staff
People gather around the rubble of a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on February 15, 2016, after the building was hit by suspected Russian airstrikes. (AFP/AL-MAARRA TODAY/GHAITH OMRAN)
March 3, 2016, 4:35 pm
Russia, Syria deliberately bombing hospitals — Amnesty
NGO says Moscow, Assad forces committed war crimes by carrying out deliberate airstrikes on medical facilities at least 6 times
By AP
Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allaan (AFP)
August 10, 2015, 8:39 am
Doctors refuse to force-feed fasting Palestinian inmate
Hunger striker Mohammed Allaan moved from Beersheba hospital to facility in Ashkelon; 100 other prisoners quit strike
By Avi Lewis
Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allaan, a member of Islamic Jihad, has been on hunger strike for 63 days as of August 18, 2015. (AFP)
August 9, 2015, 10:25 pm
Israel said setting up ER for hunger-striking Palestinians
Decision by PM and senior officials comes after Beersheba hospital refuses to force treatment on Mohammed Allaan
By ToI Staff and AFP
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