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Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip who were recently released by the Israeli occupation army reported that the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, is being held in the notorious Sde Teiman military base which is used as a detention centre for Palestinians disappeared from Gaza, the Palestinians Information Centre reported.
CNN quoted two formerly detained Palestinians in Sde Teiman detention centre who were released this week as saying they saw the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Sde Teiman, while another detainee who was released from the same prison said he heard Abu Safiya’s name being called out in the detention centre.
CNN quoted a Palestinian citizen named Ahmed Al-Sayed Salim, 18, as saying that a doctor from the Abu Safiya family was brought to the prison on Saturday.
The news station reported that Salim, who is from northern Gaza and was arrested 42 days ago at an Israeli checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip, confirmed that he knew Abu Safiya.
The US media outlet also quoted Yahya Zaqout, who was also arrested 42 days ago, as saying that he had not seen Abu Safiya, but he was in the cell next to him.
“I heard them calling his name among the names they call every morning and evening, and we had men who were brought to our cell and told us they were held along with Dr. Hussam,” Zaqout said.
Another Gazan citizen, Alaa Abu Banat, who was arrested 43 days ago, noted that the Israelis brought a medical team from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Sde Teiman detention centre. “They are all still in detention, being very badly treated, especially the doctors,” Abu Banat added.
Israel has instated a systemic policy of abusing and torturing thousands of Palestinians in its custody, according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem. At Sde Teiman, Israeli occupation forces have been found to have sexually abused Palestinians, leading one to sustain “a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs”.
The facility has been compared to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.