Iqbal Jassat
We Media Review Network – South Africa demand his immediate release along with the unconditional release of all Palestinian detainees.
We also call on South African Government as well as health care workers to urgently intervene against the Zionist regime’s racist policy to execute death penalty laws against Palestinian detainees.
We condemn the racist legislation which makes the death penalty another reprehensible discriminatory tool in Israel’s system of apartheid.
We are reminded by UN special rapporteurs Tlaleng Mofokeng and Ben Saul said they had received reports that Abu Safia’s health condition “remains dire”.
“He has been systematically denied critical medical examination and treatment, and deprived of essential care to such an extent that his life, health, and wellbeing have been gravely endangered,” they said.
Dr Abu Safia, the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was detained by Israeli forces in December 2024 amid Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the coastal enclave.
He was arrested after refusing to leave the hospital, which was the last functioning health facility in Gaza’s north, amid Israeli attacks.
Like many other detainees from the Gaza Strip, Israel has held Abu Safia without charge or trial – utterly unacceptable!
Issued by
Iqbal Jassat
Executive Member
Media Review Network
Johannesburg
South Africa