Doctors rally in France demanding release of detained Gaza hospital chief

PARIS, July 17: About 50 people, including doctors, trade unionists and pro-Palestinian activists, gathered outside France's foreign ministry in Paris on Thursday to call for the release of a Gaza hospital director who has been held since December 2024.

"Free Dr Abu Safiya," chanted the demonstrators at the protest organised by hospital unions, among them Patrick Pelloux, the high-profile head France's emergency doctor association.

It is the latest call for the release of Hussam Abu Safiya, a paediatrician and director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital, who has reportedly suffered torture and life-threatening injuries in detention.

United Nations experts, the World Health Organization and Amnesty International have urged Israel to set him free.�" AFP