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UK protesters demand release of 100 Palestinian health workers in Israeli jails
Doctors and healthcare professionals have gathered in London to demand the release of the more than 100 Palestinian medics currently held without charge or trial in Israeli jails.
This includes Dr Hussam Abu Safia, a prominent hospital director in Gaza, who was abducted by Israeli forces in December 2024.
Since then, he has been held in detention despite growing calls for his release and reports by his lawyer that was tortured in prison.
“The strategy of targeting healthcare workers and the whole hospital infrastructure is targeting what is sustaining life in Gaza,” said Dr Rebecca Inglis of Healthcare Workers Watch.
“So we know that our friends and colleagues in Gaza say that walking out in scrubs, in what I’m wearing right now, is the same as putting a target on their back.”
Southern EU countries call for ‘immediate release’ of Gaza aid
Leaders from nine EU countries around the Mediterranean Sea say they fully expect Israel to open crossings into Gaza for the immediate release of humanitarian aid following the ceasefire.
Countries of the so-called MED9 group – Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain – met on Monday in the Slovenian town of Portoroz.
It called for “the immediate release of all the humanitarian aid to flow to Gaza”, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob told a press conference.
“There is absolutely no excuse for anyone to block such humanitarian aid,” he said, adding the countries “fully expect” Israel to open land crossings.
The reopening of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt remains on hold despite calls from the UN and aid groups.
Golob said the MED9 group also wanted to make sure the ceasefire agreement is “fully respected”, including by finding a way to put reporters on the ground.
