Critics say the move would help the Israeli military protect increased settlement activity near Palestinian population centers in the West Bank.

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The hearing at Israel’s Supreme Court is closed to the public. It is clear to everyone that the imprisonment of Hussam Abu Safiya (held without charges and on the basis of secret accusations that even his lawyer does not know) has perhaps generated the most international mobilization, with calls for his release from the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Amnesty International. He is the pediatrician who ran Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and became a vocal critic of the Israeli invasion until troops arrested him in December 2024. He was seized inside the hospital, the only one still operating in the northern Gaza Strip.

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La vista, en el Tribunal Supremo de Israel, es a puerta cerrada. A nadie se le escapa que el encarcelamiento de Hussam Abu Safiya (sin cargos y en base a acusaciones secretas que ni siquiera su abogado conoce) es, quizás, el que más movilización internacional ha generado, con peticiones de liberación de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja o Amnistía Internacional. Es el pediatra que dirigía el hospital Kamal Adwan de Gaza y que se erigió en voz de denuncia de la invasión israelí, hasta que las tropas lo arrestaron en diciembre de 2024. Lo apresaron dentro del hospital, el único que seguía funcionando en el norte de la Franja.

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