{"id":555338,"date":"2026-07-09T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=555338"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:21:06","slug":"un-inquiry-urges-release-of-palestinian-doctor-jailed-by-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/un-inquiry-urges-release-of-palestinian-doctor-jailed-by-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"UN inquiry urges release of Palestinian doctor jailed by Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Palestinian<br \/>\nA United Nations inquiry commission has called for Israel to immediately release a Palestinian doctor it has jailed without charge for more than 18 months.<br \/>\nThe UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory made the appeal on Wednesday for Hussam Abu Safia, the 52-year-old director of Gaza\u2019s Kamal Adwan Hospital, saying there are credible reports he has faced \u201ccontinued and severe abuse\u201d.<br \/>\nAbu Safia\u2019s lawyer Nasser Odeh has warned that the doctor\u2019s health is in grave danger as he faces daily abuse. Rights groups and his family say he shows signs of having been regularly tortured.<br \/>\nDuring a recent visit, Abu Safia was found so severely wounded that Odeh struggled to recognise him, according to the rights group Physicians for Human Rights Israel.<br \/>\nLast month, footage of Abu Safia appearing via videolink before an Israeli court showed him looking noticeably thinner in his face and around his abdomen.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Commission calls for the immediate, unconditional and safe release of Dr. Abu Safiya and of all medical personnel held in arbitrary detention by Israel,\u201d the commission said in a statement, using a slightly different spelling of the doctor\u2019s name. \u201cIt also urges the Israeli authorities to provide immediate independent medical care for Dr. Abu Safiya.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian A United Nations inquiry commission has called for Israel to immediately release a Palestinian doctor it has jailed without charge for more than 18 months. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory made the appeal on Wednesday for Hussam Abu Safia, the 52-year-old director of Gaza\u2019s Kamal Adwan Hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN inquiry urges release of Palestinian doctor jailed by Israel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/un-inquiry-urges-release-of-palestinian-doctor-jailed-by-israel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UN inquiry urges release of Palestinian doctor jailed by Israel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Palestinian A United Nations inquiry commission has called for Israel to immediately release a Palestinian doctor it has jailed without charge for more than 18 months. 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