🕊️ The Story of Palestinian Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya... The Humanitarian Doctor Who Refused to Leave His Post Despite Everything
His wife, Albina Abu Safiya, says: 💔
«I am from Kazakhstan. Because of my deep love for my husband, I chose to live with him in Palestine—in northern Gaza—despite the extremely difficult circumstances. Hussam believed it was his duty to serve his people and his community. He was an outstanding pediatrician before becoming the hospital's director.»
For three years, Hussam received repeated threats from the Israeli military ordering him to evacuate the hospital, but he always refused because it was treating wounded children.
One day, while we were at the hospital with our son Ibrahim, the hospital was struck. Ibrahim was killed before our eyes. We buried him with our own hands, and from that day on, I never saw Hussam smile again.
Even so, he continued his humanitarian work. He treated injured children and patients, smiling at them despite his own pain. Then, at the end of the day, he would return to his office and cry in silence.
I kept begging him to leave, especially since we hold a foreign nationality, but he would always reply:
«"And leave them to whom? Who will treat their wounds?"»
I could never argue with such a noble heart.
Then came the darkest day. The Israeli military entered the hospital after failing to force him to leave.
Hussam tried to negotiate with them, asking that the patients and medical staff be allowed to leave first. They agreed. After everyone had evacuated, they took him away, and we have not seen him since.
More than a year has passed since his detention. His lawyer, Ghaida Qassem, says that he has been subjected to beatings and humiliation, that his weight has dropped to less than 60 kilograms, and that he is suffering from malnutrition and anemia.
His mother, who was deeply attached to him, died of a heart attack after hearing what had happened, without ever having the chance to say goodbye to her son.
Today, my children and I live in our partially destroyed home, waiting for his return. We are waiting for the humanitarian doctor who refused to abandon his homeland and chose to remain beside the wounded and the children of Gaza.
We place our trust in God, and then in the conscience of free people around the world, believing that you will not leave Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to face this alone.
✊🏻 #SaveDrHussamAbuSafiya
✊🏻 #DoctorOfHumanity
Having spent five years visiting most of the Christian communities in the Middle East for my book From the Holy Mountain I am in a position to say with some authority that what you say is more or less the opposite of the truth. Christians in the West Bank, especially in Beit Sahour & Taybeh are currently under daily assault from violent Settlers- their situation is worse than anything in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon or Egypt. Are you unaware of this, in which case why are you presuming to speak for the beleaguered Palestinian Christians, or are you just deliberately spreading propaganda which you know to be untrue?
@FranceskAlbs@ICRCPresident@DrTedros I’m trying to recall any stories of the “evil nazis of the Third Reich” torturing doctors to death, and I don’t remember any. Fuck “israel”.
@NoaMagid A babykiller is no hero you really need to use a dictionary and look up the meaning of the word but whatever, I'm sure they have a nice warm spot in hell for him
"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"
He means Israel would go after them too.
This child lost both his father and mother, suffered an injury to his arm, and lost one of his feet,
There are pains and sufferings that, no matter how much we speak about them, we are unable to describe.💔
"Never forget," they say.
But they choose what you remember.
Never forget Tiananmen.
Never forget 9/11.
Never forget the Holocaust.
But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.
You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.
You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.
You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.
This is not a culture of remembrance.
It is a culture of selective memory.
Tyre is older than Rome, King Solomon's Temple, Alexander the Great, and Carthage.
Israel is DESTROYING Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One of the most deeply shocking scenes documented in this war.
Children in Gaza hospitals, their small bodies trembling in fear after the bombardment, unable to comprehend the terror they have experienced.
Do not stay silent…keep speaking about the children of Gaza.
This isn’t an apocalyptic film.
This is Tyre, South Lebanon, today.
A 5,000-year-old city.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Israel is wiping it out.
Turning one of humanity’s oldest cities into ash.
This is the destruction of civilization itself — unfolding in real time.