Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was the head of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza. Despite repeated orders from the Israeli army, he refused to leave his patients and evacuate. Last December, Israeli tanks surrounded the hospital and forced him and his staff to come out. They did, and the doctor was arrested and taken away. A year on, Abu Safiya remains in Israeli detention without being formally charged. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports about the fate of the last doctor in northern Gaza.
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