“Immediate release for Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital (Gaza)”

Appeal launched by dozens of doctors in France

Le docteur Hussam Abu Safiya
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Published on 2 janvier 2025
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« Amnesty International and the World Health Organization inform us that the last functioning hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been bombed and burned, and health personnel arrested and tortured. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of this hospital, is the subject of an arbitrary arrest, without trial. He is subjected to torture.

We are witnesses to this and to the total destruction of healthcare for Palestinians. We are confronted with the silence of political leaders or their complicity.

This is the dehumanizing reality of genocide.

In the ultimate respect of his commitment to the sick and wounded, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has continued to organize care under the bombs and attacks. From our place as doctors, we demand the immediate release of our colleague so that he can resume the care that he was the last to provide in this hospital.

We reaffirm the absolute necessity of a ceasefire, a halt to arms deliveries and respect for international humanitarian law with what this implies in terms of respect for healthcare structures, the delivery of equipment and basic medicines. »

First signatories:

Dr ALIBENALI Sabrina, emergency physician, Paris

Dr ALLIOT Marie-Josée, physician, Lyon

Dr AMIOUR Makhlouf, pediatrician

Dr ANDRE Pascal, emergency physician Rodez, Aveyron

Dr ARA SOMOHANO Claire, Intensive Care Medicine, Grenoble University Hospital

Dr AYED Zoulikha, quality biologist practitioner

Dr ANDRE Pascal, emergency physician Rodez, Aveyron

Dr ARA SOMOHANO Claire, intensive care medicine, Grenoble University Hospital

Dr ASHRAF Ahmad, neurosurgeon Grenoble University Hospital

Dr AYED Zoulikha, quality biologist practitioner

Dr BELLUCCI SESSA Sylvia, honorary physician at the Paris Hospitals

Dr BEN AMMAR Mohamed Salah, anesthesiologist-resuscitator, head of department, CNV 15-20

Dr BENAOUALI Mohamed Ouassim, hospital practitioner SAMU SMUR SAU, medical manager UF SMUR, CH Layné, Mont-de-Marsan

Dr BENET Blandine, biologist, CHR Metz

Dr BRAUMAN Rony, former president of MSF

Dr CARON Damien, general practitioner, Monceaux-sur-Dordogne

Dr CHAABAN Richard, surgeon

Dr CHABERNAUD Jean Louis, president of the Medical Association Defense Ethics and Patients’ Rights

Dr CHAFIK Hanane, general practitioner

Dr CROVA Philippe, resuscitation specialist

Dr DEBARRI Houria, hematologist at CHR Metz -Thionville

Dr DECRÉ Dominique, MCU-PH, Sorbonne University, retired since the end of 2023

Dr EL ALI Hamid, hospital practitioner, retired

Dr FARHAT Mohamed, specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology, graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon, former hospital practitioner

Dr. FATAH Abdelhamid, head of the intensive care unit, Bourgoin-Jallieu

Dr. FECIH Nabil, general practitioner

Dr. FOREST Elsa, hospital practitioner

Dr. GOFTI Leila, pharmacist, immuno-oncology PH, Grenoble University Hospital

DR. GZARA Heger, cardiologist

Dr. GRAUER Jean-Luc, former retired PH

Dr. HADJI Foudil, general practitioner, Lyon 8th

Dr. HAIJO Ayman, physician

Dr. HOUMAD Naila, ophthalmologist, hospital practitioner

Dr. JOUET Emilie, general practitioner

Dr. KADI Leïla, pharmacy pharmacist

Dr. KOJA Mohammad, emergency physician, retired

Dr. KOTEIRA Essam, hospital practitioner, University Hospital Grenoble

Dr KOUT Souad, Pediatrician, Robert-Ballanger hospital, Paris

Dr LEMONNIER Marie Paule, PH, AP-HP

Dr MARTIN Dominique, hospital practitioner interim president CTS DD ARS 27, Verneuil-sur-Avre

Dr MEBANI Kamel, emergency practitioner, CH Le Blanc

Dr MERCOYROL Eddie-Laurent, emergency physician, Villefranche-sur-Saône

Dr MIMOUNE Hassina, specialist in medical oncology, Forcilles hospital, Férolles-Attilly

Dr MOURTADA Haïfa, pediatrician

Dr MOURTADA Leila, pulmonologist

Dr NIERMONT Boris, Briançon emergency room

Dr OBERLIN Christophe, orthopedic surgeon

Dr PAGNIER Anne, hospital practitioner, MD Pediatric immunohematology and oncology, Grenoble

Dr PARAIRE François, honorary physician at the Paris Hospitals

Dr PARENT Bernard, hospital physician

Pr PITTI Raphaël, humanitarian physician

Dr PRUDHOMME Christophe, emergency physician, Seine-Saint-Denis

Dr RABJEAU Armelle, pharmacist PH

Dr RONDET Baptiste, pediatrician at the Rodez hospital

Dr ROUJEAN Thomas, PH, neurosurgeon

Dr SAID Aicha, general practitioner

Dr SDIRI Mohamed Ghofrane, contract poratologist, neonatology department, CH Meaux

Dr SEFSOUF Fatiha, MPR physician

Dr TADJEROUNI Ali, gynecologist, Dreux

Dr TOKER Betül, general practitioner, Blois

Dr TOUSSAINT Bertrand, PU-PH medical biology

Dr VARNET Olivier, neurologist, Assistance Public-Paris Hospitals

Dr VENET Cyrille, National Union of Hospital Doctors Force Ouvrière

Dr YORAM FEDERMANN Georges, gymnopedic psychiatrist, Strasbourg

Dr ZAKARIA Ahmed, pediatrician, Robert-Ballanger hospital

Dr ZARGOUNI Amin, anesthesiologist-resuscitator

Dr ZELLAGUI Hadjer, endocrinologist, CH Vichy