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SvennoJ on 17 July 2024
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500 health workers killed in Gaza, including doctors with rare specialisations

Israeli attacks have killed 500 health workers in Gaza since October, including several specialised doctors, AP news agency reports.

The specialist doctors killed include a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza.

Hassan Hamdan, a plastic surgeon who specialised in wound reconstruction, was killed along with 12 members of his family earlier this month after coming out of retirement to treat victims of the war.

His son, Osama Hamdan, an orthopaedic surgeon, was on duty in the emergency room at Nasser Hospital when he received the call. His wife and two sons – aged three and five – were among those killed.

“I was only able to collect some body parts of my kids and their mother because of how huge the explosion was,” Hamdan said.


Dr Hassan Hamdan was killed in an Israeli air attack on July 3 along with his wife, son, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law and six grandchildren in a declared ‘safe zone’

Palestinians released from Israeli detention recount torture, humiliation

The Palestinian Red Crescent says its teams have treated 13 detainees, including an elderly woman, who were released this morning by the Israeli army at the Kissufim checkpoint in central Gaza.

Upon arrival at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, one of the prisoners – who declined to be named – said that a number of inmates inside Israeli prisons had lost their senses as a result of the torture and electric shocks they were subjected to.

Released prisoner Mustafa Fayyad recounted the difficult conditions of his detention due to lack of sleep and food, and being tortured more than once.

Nader Asaliya, who is blind, spoke about the conditions of his detention saying: “They treated us inhumanely inside prisons and called us dogs. We were subjected to all kinds of torture, hunger and humiliation.”

Earlier this month Israel freed dozens of Palestinians detained during its war in Gaza, including the director of al-Shifa Hospital, one of the enclave’s main hospitals.

Israeli army releases Palestinian reporter after 9 months of detention

Palestinian media report Israeli forces have released journalist Imad Abu Awad from the Nafha desert prison in the Negev after nine months of incarceration.