🇵🇸 “The whole world should be talking about Dr. Hussam’s case, standing with him and demanding his immediate release,” his sister, Samahir Abu Safiyah, tells Drop Site News.
Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah spoke with Samahir in Gaza after the pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah, appeared in an Israeli court on Wednesday after more than 500 days in detention without charge.
“When I saw the picture, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that this was my brother,” she said.
“He used to be handsome, well-built, and healthy. How did he become like this, and for what? What charge did they accuse him of? Because he is a pediatrician?”
Appearing before the Israeli High Court this week, Dr. Abu Safiyah described his imprisonment as “unjust and arbitrary.” Footage from the hearing showed him looking noticeably thinner. Samahir said lawyers told the family he has lost roughly half his body weight, suffers from deteriorating eyesight, contracted scabies while in detention, and remains held in solitary confinement in Nafha Prison. He was brought before the court in handcuffs and shackles.
“The picture showed us the torture he was subjected to,” she said, pointing to bruises visible on his hands and a face that “looks much older than his age.”
She questioned why her brother remains imprisoned after being seized from Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he continued treating patients even after Israeli forces killed his son in 2024.
“He buried him in the hospital courtyard… and then he went back to work,” she said. “He refused to leave the wounded. He refused to leave the children.”
Samahir said Dr. Hussam appears to know little about what has happened in Gaza during his detention. “If he knew anything about Gaza, he wouldn’t have sent a message through his lawyer asking Anas Al-Sharif to talk about the suffering of the people of Gaza,” she said, referring to the famous Al Jazeera journalist Israel assassinated in 2025.
“He has committed no crime,” Samahir said. “His only crime was staying in the hospital for the sake of the children, the injured, and the wounded. The whole world must stand with him.”
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@hrw_ar العالم يعبد المال، لا أخلاق ولا مبادئ.
قاتل الله وكر النفاق وعملاء الأعداء مبز وعصابته،
اللَّهم أطمس على أموالهم وشتت شملهم وأنزل عليهم الغم والهم والمرض،
ياقوي يا عزيز.
🧵on 'NYT rift'
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A NYT article on sexual abuse against Palestinians -accurate but barely scratching the surface- is triggering hysteria in the Israeli govt not bcs of the facts, but bcs of the audience.
Apartheid Israel fears NYT readers will finally see and no longer ignore.
Perhaps the most important variable holding together the UAE-Israel alliance is not the questionable geopolitical logic but the deep ties that have developed over at least a generation now between Israeli and Emirati elites, who share not just intimate relationships but deep economic interests on a personal level. This dynamic long predates the Abraham Accords, which were really just a coming out party, and you can chart its evolution over the past two decades by looking at a web of joint investments and institutional affiliations that now bind elites in the two countries. (That is also something we have reported on in important individual cases: https://t.co/4AeSZIcWgh)
This is why regardless of what happens—or individual instances of friction like Netanyahu embarrassing Emirati leadership, or a future Israeli government legally annexing the West Bank—the dynamic set in motion by the Abraham Accords is likely irreversible. Not only are there mutually overlapping layers of business interests tying key Emirati regime figures to Israel, on a practical level there is by now abundant evidence that the UAE permitted Israeli firms to penetrate its critical infrastructure and even given them ongoing access to sensitive data with national security implications. MBZ is ideologically committed to the alliance, but even if a different leadership emerged later the sunk costs of those prior actions will make scaling back the Israeli relationship dangerous or even impossible for Emiratis.
The joint Israeli-Emirati project of a war against Iran conducted over the objections or caution of other regional countries is just another step forward in a relationship that had already crossed the Rubicon a long time ago. The Abraham Accords is seen by the UAE now less as a pragmatic political arrangement than a core part of their identity, which also explains their growing hostility to other GCC countries that have turned against the idea.
While the advantages for Israel of such a relationship are obvious, from the Emirati perspective going all-in on this alliance seems much more like a high-risk gamble. But it is one from which they can by now not back down, and in fact will probably feel compelled to escalate.
@TaybaSD البلد دي مشكلتها واحدة، إستبداد العسكر.
إمارة الشر تامرت على ثورة الشعب السوداني كما أجهضت من قبل الشورى في مصر وتونس،
نهضة البلد لا تتم إلا بالفصل بين حماية الشعب وخدمة الشعب، حمل ااسلاح تخصص مجموعة من أبناء الوطن، وحل مشكلاته الإقتصادية والإجتماعية والصحية إلخ تخصص فئة أخرى.
ICYMI: Shortly after the El Fasher massacre by the RSF, thousands of RSF-aligned bots began whitewashing war crimes. I detected 19,000 of bots. Read more about it on my substack. #Sudan#Dysinfluence
ICYMI: Shortly after the El Fasher massacre by the RSF, thousands of RSF-aligned bots began whitewashing war crimes. I detected 19,000 of bots. Read more about it on my substack. #Sudan#Dysinfluence
@Amgad_Fareid أبو ظبي ضالعة في سفك الدماء وإنتهاك أعراض أهل السودان. ومن جرائمها الدعاية الإعلامية لتلميع السفاحين والمغتصبين، أورد الصحفي البريطاني أوين جونز تقارير تشير لتنشيط أبوظبي ل ١٨ ألف بوت في تويتر بعد مجزرة الفاشر لتلميع مجرمي الجنجويد وصرف الأنظار عن المجازر البشعة التي إرتكبوها.
@EpochTimes No. Not at all. The US is bombing another country based on lies. Iraq all over again. This country is run by zio government of the US is doing a war for Israel.