{"id":122,"date":"2026-07-07T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:39:19","slug":"calls-grow-for-israel-to-release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya-u-s-doctor-says-nobody-is-safe-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says \u201cNobody Is Safe\u201d in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza\u2019s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge. After seeing Dr. Abu Safiya on July 2, his attorney Nasser Odeh says the doctor faces \u201ctangible danger to his life\u201d from torture and medical neglect. For more, we speak to Tirza Leibowitz, the deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, about Abu Safiya\u2019s case and efforts to secure his release. The group has filed an appeal in the Israeli courts requesting the release of Abu Safiya and 13 other Palestinian doctors who were captured in Gaza and imprisoned by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=118\">Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI &amp; the \u201cQuasi-Religious\u201d Push for Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also hear from Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Chicago-based emergency room physician and former colleague of Hussam Abu Safiya. Ahmad volunteered as a medical practitioner in Gaza in 2024. He says Abu Safiya has become a \u201csymbol of Palestinian resilience\u201d and, in particular, Israel\u2019s systematic targeting of Gaza\u2019s healthcare system, which continues to this day. \u201cThe necessary aid is not entering, the bombing still persists, people are still dying on a regular basis, and these hospitals don\u2019t have the supplies that they need to be able to treat their patients,\u201d says Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=116\">\u201cThe American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement\u201d: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza\u2019s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge. After seeing Dr. Abu Safiya on July 2, his attorney Nasser Odeh says the doctor faces \u201ctangible danger to his life\u201d from torture and medical neglect. For more, we speak to Tirza Leibowitz, the deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, about Abu Safiya\u2019s case and efforts to secure his release. 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