PHILANTHROPY NOW!!: October 2025

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, a pediatrician, and a prominent voice of Gaza’s decimated healthcare sector, is still being arbitrarily detained by Israeli authorities since his arrest on 27 December 2024. A lawyer who visited him and other detainees, recently reported that he has been subjected to abuse and other ill-treatment. Join us in demanding his immediate and unconditional release.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PETITION TO RELEASE DR SAFIYA 🙏

"On 27 December 2024, Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital—the last functioning hospital in North Gaza at the time—and arrested the hospital’s director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya along with other medical staff and patients.

Dr. Abu Safiya had been tirelessly running the hospital, providing essential care to children and bearing witness to the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare sector under Israel’s genocide. He continued his work even after the tragic death of his own son during an Israeli airstrike. Like many health workers before him, he was detained while caring for his patients and carrying out his medical duties

Not until 11 February 2025 did Israeli authorities allow Dr. Abu Safiya to meet with a legal counsel. In the latest visit by a lawyer to Ofer military prison in early July 2025, she reported that Dr. Hussam and other detainees were subjected to assault and beatings. She also stated that Dr. Abu Safiya showed signs of significant weight loss as the Israeli Prison Service continues to impose severe restrictions on Palestinian detainees’ access to food, adequate medical care and hygiene.

Dr. Abu Safiya’s arrest and ongoing arbitrary detention without charges or trial – based on the abusive Unlawful Combatants’ Law – is a reflection of Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian health workers and the decimation of the healthcare system in Gaza in order to inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians." (amnesty.org)

On tuesday October 16, the family of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya confirmed that the Israeli court has extended his administrative detention for another six months, despite his name having previously appeared among those discussed for release. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION & SHARE 🙏

RIP Fatma Hassouna

“Three hundred days my brothers and I die in this murder, blood flows on the ground even as if I am afraid of the moment my brothers' blood will reach me. Three hundred days we see only red and black, smell the smell of death, we eat the pends, and only touch the bodies. ‏We die here every day, in many forms and colors, I die a thousand times every time I see a child who suffers, I get sharded, I become ashes. What we have become, this absurdity hurts me, and this beast that eats us every day. ‏As for mentioning the death that is necessary, if I die, I want a resounding death, I do not want me in urgent news, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that the world hears, an effect that remains for the extent of the ages, and immortal images that neither time nor space is buried”