The Gazan government asks the UN to pressure Israel to release hospital director Kamal Aduan

MADRID Jan. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have called on the international community on Monday to pressure Israel to obtain the “immediate and urgent” release of the director of the Gazan hospital. Kamal Aduan, Hosam Abu Safiya, as well as the more than 350 medical personnel held by the Israeli Army.

“We ask the international community, human rights organizations and the United Nations to take serious measures to pressure the Israeli occupation to immediately release Dr. Hosam Abu Safiya and all medical and health personnel, and guarantee their protection against any form of torture or murder,” the press office of the Gazan Government stated on its Telegram account.

The Israeli Army has detained “without presenting clear legal charges or transparency about their situation” more than 350 medical personnel, who “suffer serious suffering inside prisons”, they have denounced, for which they have asked for “effective legal guarantees to ensure” their protection “against rape and torture.”

“We express our deep concern about this forced disappearance and demand their immediate and urgent release, as they are protected in accordance with international Human Rights laws, which guarantee their basic rights, including the right to protection, and the right to know the charges against them, if there are any charges,” Gaza authorities have said.

The Gazan authorities have demanded the “immediate and urgent release” of these health professionals due to fear that they will be subjected to “serious violations” of Human Rights, which “constitutes a war crime.”

In particular, they have expressed their “deep” concern for Dr. Hosam Abu Safiya, who was arrested at the end of December by Israeli forces in an operation in which they claimed to have detained 240 “terrorists” and that “he suffers the same fate.” than many Palestinian doctors, scientists and intellectuals who died in prisons under torture” such as doctor Iyad al Ransiti, who died at the age of 53 in police custody, just six days after being detained.

“These practices cannot pass without accountability and our Palestinian people will continue to call on the international community to assume its moral and legal responsibilities in protecting the rights of Palestinian detainees,” they stated.