Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: a Palestinian Janusz Korcsak
JVL Introduction
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is well remembered for his courageous work doing his utmost to tend to patients at Kamal Adnan Hospital in the north of Gaza until the last possible moment. He has been incarcerated since December 2024 without charges or any due process. His courage and the cruel treatment meted out to him by Israel has caused great concern across the world, including within Israel as this doctor illustrates in her article below.
She likens him to another brave doctor, Janusz Korczak who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and refused to leave the children, even though he had opportunity to do so. He walked with the children into the cattle cars and into death. We can only hope that Dr. Safiya’s fate will not be the same and that our efforts succeed, although, worryingly, Israel’s fury at the growing opposition to its actions may make things worse for him.
Below the article is Israel’s official, literally incredible, statement on their incarceration of Dr. Safiya.
This article was originally published by Ha'aretz on Sun 14 Jun 2026. Read the original here.
Ha'aretz
The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital refused to abandon his patients, even after his son was killed and he himself was wounded. Today, he is being held without charge in an Israeli prison. If Israel allows him to die there, it will annihilate a Palestinian symbol of heroism
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