The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, called on the Israeli occupation to release the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safia, and end the genocide in the Gaza Strip.

“As a doctor and UN rapporteur, I demand an end to the brutal arrest of Kamal Adwan Hospital Director Hussam Abu Safia by the Israeli occupation and an end to the genocide in Gaza,” Mofokeng said in a post on the X platform on Tuesday.

Last Saturday, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the Israeli army had arrested the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the North Gaza Strip Governorate, Hussam Abu Safiya.

Since the start of the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army has been targeting the health sector in the Strip, bombing and besieging hospitals, threatening to evacuate them, and preventing the entry of medical supplies, especially in the areas of the northern Strip, which it invaded again on October 5.

The latest Israeli attack on the health system in Gaza was on Friday, when Kamal Adwan Hospital was stormed, set on fire, put out of service, and more than 350 people were arrested inside, including medical staff, wounded and sick people, and Abu Safiya.