Palestinian health officials have suspended services at Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital due to a shortage of fuel. It came as human rights groups marked one year since Israeli forces seized Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, where he served as director.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been held by Israel, without trial, ever since his detention in December 2024. Advocates say Dr. Abu Safiya’s health has deteriorated while he’s faced cruel and inhumane treatment in prison. He among more than 430 health workers abducted by Israel from Gaza and the West Bank since October of 2023.
In other news, in northern Israel, at least two people were killed when a Palestinian man launched a car-ramming and stabbing attack in the city of Afula on Friday.
Israel’s military said in response it was demolishing the home of the attacker and was launching raids across the town of Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank.
The attack came one day after an Israeli army reservist in civilian clothes was caught on video ramming his vehicle into a Palestinian man who was praying peacefully on the side of the road.
The reservist had been caught on camera earlier that day shooting a rifle at residents of Deir Jarir. Israel’s military said in response it had suspended the man’s status as a reservist and released him to five days of house arrest.
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