The choice by the Beersheba District Court docket reportedly made based mostly on a secret file submitted by the Israeli Lawyer Normal, alleging that Abu Safia poses a risk to “state safety.”
In the course of the courtroom session, Abu Safia’s lawyer denied the allegations made towards the physician, stating that Abu Safia had been performing his skilled duties as a director and remedy advisor throughout the hospital.
The prosecution refused a request to reveal their proof, a choice the courtroom upheld.
Israeli forces arrested Abu Safia on 27 December 2024, from the hospital in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, which was unnoticed of service following Israeli assaults.
The hospital was stormed by Israeli troops following almost three months of a suffocating blockade and fixed air strikes on its departments and the realm surrounding them.
All medical workers, sufferers, and their kin had been taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, pressured to strip all the way down to their underwear and transferred to an unknown location.
Chatting with Arab48 earlier this month, Abu Safiya’s lawyer acknowledged that he was prevented from assembly anybody, together with his lawyer, from the day he was detained till 10 February.
Gheed Kassem was in a position to go to the physician within the infamous Ofer jail within the occupied West Financial institution, the place he had been detained for over 70 days after spending almost two weeks on the Sde Teiman detention camp within the Negev desert.
In line with Kassem, the paediatric physician was arrested and imprisoned for refusing to obey expulsion orders by the Israeli military “as a result of his conscience and professionalism required him to stay within the hospital, particularly with the presence of dozens of sufferers and wounded youngsters.”
“The longest interval of interrogation that Abu Safiya endured was 13 consecutive days, with every session lasting between eight to 10 hours. All through this whole time, he was subjected to relentless and brutal abuse, torture, and assault,” Kassem continued.
She added that the detainees are “virtually utterly remoted contained in the jail”, with none data or details about the skin world, except they’re allowed a go to.
