A well-known doctor in Gaza has passed away in an Israeli jail after being held for over four months. Palestinian prisoner groups say his death is part of a pattern of targeting health workers.
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, who is the leader of the bone doctor department at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, passed away in an Israeli prison on April 19. This information was shared in a statement on Thursday by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs.
Al-Bursh and 10 other medical workers were arrested in December when the Israeli military invaded the Jabalya refugee camp, according to CNN. The statement said he was taken away while he was helping patients at Al-Awda Hospital.
The Israeli authorities have not yet let his body go.
The prisoner groups accused Israel for his death. They said it was part of a plan to harm doctors and the healthcare system in Gaza.
The 50-year-old’s death was very sad for everyone – his family, the doctors at Al-Shifa Hospital, and for Dr. Adnan’s patients, said Dr. Marwan Abu Saada, the director of the hospital.
“He said this news is the worst and hurts our hearts. ” “Dr Adnan really enjoyed life, was always happy, and everyone loved him. ”
Mohammad Al-Bursh, the nephew of Al-Bursh, said in a phone interview that he learned about his uncle’s death from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society on Thursday at around 1 pm.
“I didn’t know how to tell his wife and my dad. ” It’s really hard to believe this news and we are very surprised. “We are hurting,” he said.
Dr Al-Bursh was the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. He wasn’t just a doctor, he also helped the Palestinian national team with sports, according to his nephew.
He said to CNN that his uncle worked all the time during the worst part of the war in Gaza. He only took an hour in the morning to exercise and play sports at the beach.
“Starting on October 10, 2023, he stayed at Al-Shifa hospital all the time. ” Mohammed said he didn’t see his wife for about two weeks.
When Israel first went into Al-Shifa hospital, Mohammad told CNN that Israeli soldiers told the medical staff, including Dr. Al-Bursh, that they had to leave the hospital and go south, or they would be arrested.
Mohammad said he did what he was told and went to the south for a little while. When he thought it was safe, he came back to the north of Gaza. Dr Al-Bursh had to keep changing hospitals in Gaza because they were always getting attacked by Israelis.
Mohammad said that Dr Al-Bursh could have run away and gone to shelters in Jabalya, but he chose to stay and keep working. Until Israeli soldiers arrested him on December 14th of last year.
Mohammad said he tried to find out what happened to his uncle from the police and lawyers, but they wouldn’t tell him.
Accusations of hurting someone’s body and mind.
Abu Saada, like Mohammad, said he had asked Israeli authorities about Al-Bursh’s detention but didn’t get any news. He was told by one of Al-Bursh’s fellow prisoners, who had been released, that the surgeon had been tortured and killed.
The news cannot check if it is true that Al-Bursh was hurt while in jail. However, many Palestinians who were freed by Israel have said that they were treated badly while they were held in custody during the fighting in Gaza.
The IDF has said it follows the rules when it detains people.
A secret report from the United Nations says that the media has found describes how the Israeli military has hurt and threatened people in prison. This includes hitting, not letting them sleep, and making sexual threats.
Israel let go many people from Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel on Thursday.
The release of Ismail Khadr’s body was announced by prisoner associations. Ismail was a Palestinian man from Gaza who had died in Israeli custody. The number of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli jails since October 7 is now 18, according to the statement.
Israel started a war in Gaza because the Hamas group attacked on October 7 and killed over 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 200 people as hostages. Israel used force against Gaza and caused a big crisis there. This has made a lot of people very upset all around the world.
In the last seven months, more than 34,600 people have been killed in Gaza because of the bombing. Half of the 2. 2 million people in Gaza are very close to starving, and a famine made by people is very likely to happen soon, according to a scale used by United Nations agencies. People are worried about Israel’s plan to attack southern Gaza. They want a ceasefire to stop the fighting.
Many people are very mad at Israel for what they are doing near hospitals in Gaza. Doctors and other groups say the health system in Gaza is about to break.
Israel says it went into medical centers in Gaza to stop Hamas fighters from using them for military activities. They claim that Hamas was using the underground tunnels at the hospitals for their operations. Hamas and doctors at different hospitals in Gaza say the accusations are not true. Israel is being strongly urged by the world to show evidence for its claims.
Dr Al-Bursh has five children. The youngest is three years old. They hadn’t seen their father in almost five months.
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Prominent Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh passes away in an Israeli jail
