INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least 160 healthcare workers from Gaza, including more than 20 doctors, are believed to still be inside Israeli detention facilities as
the World Health Organization expressed deep concern about their wellbeing and safety.Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical
further 24 were missing after being taken from hospitals during the conflict, the Guardian reported.Muath Alser, director of HWW, said the
detention of large numbers of doctors, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare workers from Gaza was illegal under international law and was
manner is having a devastating impact on the provision of healthcare to Palestinians, with extensive suffering, countless preventable
that 297 healthcare workers from Gaza have been detained by the Israeli military since the war began, but the organization had no updated
data on how many have been released or remain in detention.HWW says its data shows the number is slightly higher and that it has verified
subjected to violence and mistreatment.A lawyer representing Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, whose detention by
Israeli forces in December sparked international condemnation, recently said he had been allowed to visit Abu Safiya in detention in Ofer
Prison in Ramallah for the first time and that he said he had been tortured, beaten and denied medical treatment.The Guardian and the Arab
Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) have also heard detailed testimony from seven senior doctors who claimed they were taken from
hospitals, ambulances and checkpoints in Gaza, illegally transferred across the border into Israeli-run prison facilities and subjected to
beaten with rifle butts and being attacked by dogs
military contributed to the collapse of the healthcare system in Gaza
should be protected, not targeted or attacked during conflict and must be allowed to carry on providing medical care to those who need
consultant obstetrician and gynecologist at Kamal Adwan hospital, and Dr Adnan al-Bursh, head of the orthopedic department at al-Shifa
