Who Are the 75 Doctors and Medical Staff from Gaza Still Held in Israel’s Gruesome Prisons for Palestinians?

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For the last 16 months, campaigners around the world have, understandably, been highlighting the case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the brave director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, who kept the hospital operational for three months, from October to December 2024, when it was besieged and attacked remorselessly by Israeli forces during what was known as “the Generals’ Plan.”

This was the “genocide within a genocide”, when the whole of northern Gaza was placed under a violent siege, and everyone still living there, who had failed to cooperate with previous evacuation orders — either because they were unwilling or unable to leave — was told in no uncertain terms that, if they stayed, they would be regarded as “enemy combatants” who could be summarily executed.

During the siege, Dr. Abu Safiya survived the death of his son, and was wounded himself, and he only finally surrendered on December 27, 2024, when it was no longer possible to keep the hospital running. He subsequently disappeared into Israel’s brutal prisons for Palestinians, where he is held under Israel’s blatantly illegal “Unlawful Combatants Law”, introduced in 2002, around the same time that George W. Bush was setting up his “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay and defining those held there as “unlawful enemy combatants.”

Dr. Abu Safiya is being held in Ketziot Prison in the Negev Desert, under harsh conditions, according to his lawyer, who has not been allowed to visit him for over two months. He is reportedly being denied the medications he needs, and necessary medical care, despite an ongoing deterioration in his health.

On April 28, 16 months and a day since his surrender and disappearance, Dr. Abu Safiya had his ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial as an “unlawful combatant” extended. I posted about it on Substack and on Facebook, where I also noted that, according to a report by Al Jazeera in October last year, Israel was still holding 95 doctors and other medical staff in its prisons — 80 from Gaza and 15 from the West Bank — who were mostly abducted by the Israeli military from their hospitals or ambulances while they were on duty.

Al Jazeera’s article included a list of the 95 detained doctors and medical staff, drawn from research undertaken by Healthcare Workers Watch, established in the early months of the genocide, which describes itself as “an initiative led by Palestinian healthcare professionals to monitor and bring attention to attacks on healthcare facilities and workers across Palestine”, whose mission is “to bridge the gap in reporting and documentation caused by the collapse of the Palestinian healthcare system.”

As they proceed to explain, “We independently gather data through ‘social media listening’, focusing on verified accounts of victims’ relatives and colleagues sharing their stories online. To ensure accuracy, we cross-reference these reports with information from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, hospitals’ social media pages, relevant healthcare associations’ websites, and local media outlets.”

On their home page, HWW lists the numbers of doctors and healthcare workers killed, unlawfully detained, killed in Israeli custody, and missing, on an ongoing basis. Their latest update, on April 17, confirmed that 1,571 doctors and healthcare workers have been killed since October 7, 2023, 446 have been unlawfully detained, six have been killed in Israeli custody, and five are missing.

They also published an updated report on those still detained (and those missing or killed in Israeli custody), confirming that 75 doctors and medical staff from Gaza are still detained, as well as eight from the West Bank. Of the 446 held since October 7, 2023, they were able to ascertain that 323 have been released, although they noted that they “have not yet received a status update from the families of 29 detained healthcare workers so these are not included in the ‘confirmed detained’ or ‘confirmed released’ figures”, meaning that the true total of those still detained could be higher.

In an effort to rationalize the information presented in their list, and to hopefully bring their work to a new audience, I have undertaken my own analysis of the names of those detained, listing them not by profession, as in the HWW list, but by the date of their detention. This, it seems to me, establishes more clearly the patterns of detention in connection with Israel’s “war” on Gaza’s hospitals, which began as soon as news of the attacks in southern Israel emerged on October 7, 2023, and increased in savagery, and in depraved defiance of recognized and internationally agreed prohibitions on attacking hospitals, doctors and other medical staff, throughout the rest of 2023, and throughout the whole of 2024.

It has only decreased in intensity since because of Israel’s sickening success at destroying almost the whole of Gaza’s healthcare sector, a crime of unparalleled depravity for which it must one day be held accountable.

In researching and reorganizing the list, I undertook extensive internet searches, but for many of those held I was unable to locate any additional information beyond their names, roles, ages and the length of time they have been detained, as recorded by HWW. If anyone has any further information, please do get in touch, so that I can update this list as an ongoing project.

Please also note that this article only provides limited analysis of the treatment of the doctors and medical staff in Israel’s prisons. For further information, I recommend Physicians for Human Rights Israel’s February 2025 report, “Unlawfully Detained, Tortured, and Saved: The Plight of Gaza’s Medical Workers in Israeli Custody”, and the accompanying testimonies here.

As they explain, with particular reference to this list, “Medical personnel were primarily questioned about the Israeli hostages, tunnels, hospital structures, and Hamas’ activity. Some were even asked about fellow physicians. They were rarely asked questions linking them to any criminal activity, nor were they presented with substantive charges. Based on these testimonies, it appears the interrogations were mainly aimed at intelligence gathering rather than investigating alleged security offenses.”

Despite this, many of those detained are held under the “Unlawful Combatants Law”, which was amended in 2024 to allow an incarceration order to be issued within 45 days, instead of 96 hours, and for those held to be brought before a district court within 75 days, not 14 days. See UN Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul’s 2025 article, “Gaza Amendments to Israel’s ‘Unlawful Combatants Law’ are Inconsistent with International Law”, for further information.

A brief timeline of Israel’s “war” on Gaza’s hospitals

The first attacks on Gaza’s hospitals took place on the very first day of the conflict, with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) reporting at 3.36pm on October 7, 2023, that “Israeli forces struck the Indonesian hospital [in northern Gaza] and an ambulance in front of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza”, and that the strikes “killed one nurse, one ambulance driver, injured several and damaged an oxygen station.”

On October 11, an Israeli airstrike hit close to Al-Awda Hospital, in Jabalia, which caused some ceilings to collapse. MSF reported that “the structural integrity of the hospital was maintained, and the hospital continued to function”, but just two days later, on October 13, Israeli forces gave staff just two hours to evacuate the hospital. MSF explained that doctors and staff “wheeled patients on gurneys into the street in an effort to get them to other hospitals”, but “with little success.”

In the end, staff and patients resisted the evacuation order, but on October 17 the “war” on Gaza’s hospitals began in earnest, as the courtyard of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was bombed, killing 471 people and wounded 342 others, mainly those displaced by the lawless evacuation orders for the whole of northern Gaza that Israel had issued on October 13.

In the first indication of how deviously Israel would manipulate the narrative to justify its “war” on Gaza’s hospitals, it was claimed, without any evidence, that the deadly strike was the result of a misfired missile fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and  international media lapped up the story, even though subsequent forensic investigations established the trajectory of a missile from Israel.

After that attack, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, the British Palestinian surgeon who was working at the hospital at the time, held a press conference, surrounded by fellow doctors and the dead, at which he stated, bluntly, “This is a massacre’, and predicted that “more hospitals will be targeted.”

Later, he told researchers from Forensic Architecture that the Al-Ahli Hospital attack “was the moment when it seemed clear to him that Israel’s military campaign ‘stopped being a war, and became a genocide.’”

Dr. Abu Sittah was correct. Having got away with a deadly attack on a hospital, Israel’s attacks then steadily increased. On the weekend of October 21-22, during what Al Jazeera described as “the most violent bombardment by Israeli forces since the conflict started”, more than 400 people, mostly women and children, were killed in just 24 hours. Strikes hit close to Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza’s two largest hospitals, and on October 24, when more than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air raids, the area around Al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza City was also targeted, as was Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis.

By the end of the month, as Israel launched ground operations in Gaza, it ordered the “immediate” evacuation of Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, where thousands of patients and displaced people were housed, and, to provide cover for the advancing troops, also bombed the area around the hospital, as it did with Al-Shifa Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and the European Hospital in Khan Younis.

By November, the carnage was unstoppable. The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, only completed in 2017, and the only specialist cancer hospital in Gaza, was hit on October 30, and closed on November 1. The IDF later took it over as a military base, and completely destroyed it in March 2025.

On November 10, staff at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in Gaza City were forced to evacuate at gunpoint, leaving behind premature babies whose corpses were discovered by a journalist during a week-long ceasefire at the end of November. At the same time, Al-Shifa Hospital was directly attacked, and was stormed by Israeli ground troops on November 15, seeking to find — or, rather, to invent  — corroboration for their absurd claims that Hamas operated a control and command center under the hospital. Premature babies in Al-Shifa were also under threat, as I wrote about at the time, here and here.

The above only touches on the extent of Israel’s depravity in this period, when numerous doctors and other medical staff were killed, and some were apprehended, only later to be freed, like Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, who was seized on November 23, 2023, while traveling with a WHO convoy during an evacuation from the hospital, but was released in July 2024 with 54 other prisoners, allegedly to free up prison space, although his release, in particular, was described by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as “security negligence.”

Seized and detained at the Indonesian hospital, November 2023

The first group of doctors and other medical personnel who are still held were seized during or after the siege of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, which opened in 2016, funded by the Indonesian government and the Indonesian people, and inaugurated by the country’s vice-president. On November 20, the hospital was surrounded and besieged by Israeli forces, and, that evening, projectiles were fired into the second floor, killing at least 12 people, and tearing apart the hospital’s front entrance. A witness to the attacks was the renowned surgeon Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, one of the six doctors and medical staff known to have been killed in Israeli custody in the last two and a half years, who came to the Indonesian Hospital from Al-Shifa, and later moved to Al-Awda Hospital, where he was seized on December 5.

As Al Jazeera reported, the siege of the Indonesian Hospital left the facility ruined, “overwhelmed with large numbers of wounded people amid severe shortages in medical supplies.” Reporter Osama Bin Javaid, who gained access to the facility, said, “Corridors have become wards and surgeons operate on the floor.” He added, “Outside the hospital building, the stench of death forces people to cover their nose, as charred and decomposing bodies, children among them, pile up in corners. No burials have taken place for days because Israeli snipers targeted anyone who ventured out to dig a grave.”

One male nurse told Al Jazeera, “When they stormed the hospital we told them we are nurses, civilians, and that we have children and sick people here. They interrogated me and three other nurses. They asked me about the resistance and if there were any fighters here. They asked about the entrances and exits of the hospital. We were all panicking. We were very scared.”

Another nurse recalled how Israeli forces cut off power. “We had 25 people with broken pelvises who couldn’t be moved”, the nurse said. “They blew up this entrance, they shot the patients inside. They searched us one by one and scanned everyone’s faces. I told them I’m a nurse. They took me to this corner and beat me, and asked me many questions about the hospital, the Israeli captives and hostages — whether I know anything about them. Every question was accompanied by a slap. After they left, we could’ve gone but I promised I would never leave my patients alone and that I would be the last one to leave this hospital.”

All four of the men listed below have been held for 895 or 896 days as of May 6, 2026.

1. Dr. Akram Hassan Mohammed Abu Odeh (62 years old), Head of the Orthopedic Surgery Department, the Indonesian Hospital

Born on February 26, 1964, in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, Dr. Abu Odeh holds a master’s degree in orthopedic surgery from Sofia University in Bulgaria and was the  head of the orthopedic department at the Indonesian Hospital at the time of his capture, having previously worked at Al-Shifa Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital. According to a post on X on April 15, 2026 by Dr. Mostafa Naim, “After the hospital siege, during the evacuation of medical staff, he was arrested at the Netzarim checkpoint on November 24, 2023.” Dr. Naim added, “Although the occupation tried to conceal news about him, some information reached us through released detainees who confirmed he was inside prison. His news never stopped entirely, but it remains limited and fragmented — never enough to reassure a family waiting for him every single day.”

In July 2025, a number of Palestinian journalists issued a statement calling for his release, noting that, after he was seized, he was “taken to Ofer Military Prison, where he is currently being held”, and where, “according to information received, he is being subjected to physical and psychological abuse in detention and has suffered severe pain throughout his body as a result of torture and ill-treatment.” The journalists specifically noted a claim that he was held because he had provided medical care to Israeli hostages seized on October 7. For the Israelis, this was a cynical opportunity to tie him to Hamas, but, as the journalists noted, even if true, “international law protects doctors and grants them immunity when performing their humanitarian and medical duties, without discrimination between patients.”

2. Dr. Medhat Asaad Mahmoud Abu Tabanja (46 years old), Head of the Intensive Care Department, the Indonesian Hospital

Dr. Abu Tabanja has been held for 895 days as of May 6, 2026, which would mean that he was seized after the siege of the Indonesian Hospital, on November 26, 2023. On December 25, 2025, however, Physicians for Human Rights Israel stated that he was arrested on March 3, 2024, while passing through a checkpoint with his wife and children, when he was, according to their report, the head of the surgery department at Al-Rantisi Hospital.” This seems unlikely, because Al-Rantisi Hospital, Gaza’s largest children’s hospital, was evacuated after a violent siege and attack by Israel forces in November 2023, and efforts to rebuild it didn’t begin until June 2024.

Whatever the circumstances regarding his capture, Dr. Abu Tabanja told a lawyer from PHRI on October 29, 2025 that, a few weeks before the visit, “he was informed by the IPS [Israeli Prison Service] that he was set to be released. He was taken to sign his release papers, his clothes were changed, his picture was taken, and he was taken to Sde Teiman camp to wait for his release back to Gaza.” However, “After being held in Sde Teiman for a few days, he was interviewed by an intelligence officer who told him that ‘his children are waiting for him’ and that ‘he isn’t responsible’ for his release process.” That same day, he was told that he “would be transferred back from Sde Teiman to Ktzi’ot Prison, where he had been held before the decision to release him”, along with 32 other prisoners.

As PHRI proceeded to explain, “A week later, he had a court hearing where he was told his detention would be extended again for another six months without charging him.” He said that “no one further interrogated me” before this decision was taken, and that it “was the hardest moment I had to go through.” He also said that, “a week after he was brought back to the IPS facility, there was a prisoner guards’ raid that involved extreme violence against the detainees, including the use of rubber bullets”, and that he “was injured in the leg with a rubber bullet during the raid.” He also “attested that the guards rubbed detainees’ faces in sewage water.”

3. Mr. Ahmed Atef Hassan Shaheen (30 years old), Nurse, the Indonesian Hospital

In detention for 897 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on November 24, 2023.

4. Mr. Mahmoud Ali Younis Al-Nairab (34 years old), Radiology Technician, the Indonesian Hospital

In detention for 897 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on November 24, 2023. A photo of him is here.

Others seized in November 2023

5. Mr. Samer Mohammed Moeen Shaat (45 years old), Administrative Staff, International Cooperation Department, Palestinian Ministry of Health

In detention for 906 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on November 15, 2023, making him the longest-held individual connected to Gaza’s healthcare sector.

6. Mr. Ahmed Ramadan Hassan Abu Riala (30 years old), ICU Nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

In detention for 899 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on November 22, 2023. A photo of him is here.

7. Mr. Mohammed Bassam Ahmed Al-Nahhal (33 years old), Paramedic, Martyr Mohammed Yousef El-Najar Hospital, Rafah

In detention for 895 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on November 26, 2023. A photo of him is here. The hospital, the smallest in Gaza, suffered an attack nearby on November 20, 2023, when Israeli forces bombed two residential buildings, killing 17 and wounding 15 others, and patents and staff were eventually forced to evacuate on May 7, 2024, during Israel’s assault on Rafah, when it was put out of service.

8. Mr. Abdallah Khamis Abdallah Abu Taha (45 years old), Ambulance Driver, Ministry of Health, Khan Younis

In detention for 895 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on November 26, 2023.

After a week-long ceasefire took place between November 24 and November 30, which led to the release and exchange of hostages and prisoners, and the first break in Israel’s relentless attacks for seven weeks, hopes that it would be extended were dashed when Israel resumed its horrific attacks on December 1.

Seized in December 2023

9. Mr. Anees Al-Dunia Abdulhamid Al-Astal (Anis Al-Astal) (47 years old), Head of Paramedics Department in Southern Area, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Khan Younis

In detention for 886 days as of May 6, 2026, he was seized just after the week-long pause in hostilities on December 2, 2023. A photo is here, along with his final words to his wife Maha before he was seized. “Maha” he said, “I’ve been at the checkpoint for almost 2 hours waiting to be allowed to go to Kamal Adwan Hospital. There are 8 elderly patients, and I must evacuate them.”

10. Dr. Raed Yaqoub Salam Mahdi (53 years old), Consultant Paediatrician, Al Durra Children’s Hospital

In detention for 880 days as of May 6, 2026, he was seized on December 8, 2023. Al Durra is — or was — a small pediatric hospital in Al-Zahraa City, south of Gaza City. On October 13, 2023, it was evacuated after being hit with illegal white phosphorus bombs, and on October 24 Israeli forces bombed the home of its director, Kamal Khattab, killing his wife and two daughters.

According to Dr. Mahdi’s daughter, who issued a plea to the world on April 4, 2026,  Dr. Raed Mahdi, a pediatrician and the the medical director at Al-Durra Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza, “has been held in Israeli torture prisons since his detention by Israeli forces in December 2023 after refusing to abandon his young patients.” His family had “already been devastated by an earlier Israeli airstrike that killed his wife and seven of their children, along with his brother, also a doctor.”

In a report by PHRI in February 2025, when he was held in Ketziot Prison, he was reported as saying, “I face severe conditions simply because I am a pediatrician. When they realize someone is a doctor or an academic, the treatment becomes harsher.”

11. Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Kahlout, PhD (53 years old), Director General, Kamal Adwan Hospital

In detention for 876 days as of May 6, 2026, he was seized on December 12, 2023, during the first siege and occupation of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

As the Institute for Palestine Studies explained, on December 12, 2023, Israeli forces “stormed the hospital, arresting its director, Dr. Ahmad Al-Kahlout, and all medical staff. Everyone was interrogated and some tortured inside the emergency department and Al-Kahlout and more than 70 medical staff were abducted to an unknown destination. The occupation forces shot at some of those released, injuring five people. 65 wounded and 12 sick children in pediatric care remained at the hospital without electricity, water, or food.”

On December 13, 2023, Israeli forces “accompanied by tanks stormed the hospital again, with reports of mass arrests and ill-treatment of those they detained.” They  “released five doctors and all female workers they had detained the day before”, but “the director Dr. Al-Kahlout and 70 other medical staff members were still held in an unknown location outside the hospital.”

From what I can ascertain, all of those detained were subsequently released, except for Dr. Ahmad Al-Kahlout. Notoriously, on December 19, 2023, the IDF released what purported to be a confession by Dr. Al-Kahlout about how Hamas “has used hospitals as military facilities under their control”, in which he was described as a “senior Hamas Member since 2010.” To me, it looks like a coerced confession, and, if it is supposedly reliable, Israel should explain why, as a result, he has not been put on trial. The Ministry of Health in Gaza denounced the confession in a statement here, issued on December 20.

What is clear, however is that when Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya took over as the director of the hospital, he was, from the beginning, dogged by Israel’s claims, and its sickening determination to wrongly portray the hospital as a front for military activity.

12. Dr. Sulieman Zuhdi Sulieman Abu-Shareea (Suleiman Abu Sharia) (37 years old), Volunteering General Practitioner, Jabalia Ambulance Centre, Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)

In detention for 868 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on December 20, 2023. The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported him as being held in Ofer Prison.

Seized in January 2024

13. Mr. Mohammed Adham Mohammed Matar (35 years old), Volunteering nurse, Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMoH)

In detention for 832 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on January 25, 2024. A photo is here.

14. Mr. Ahmed Mousa Ismail Mousa (34 years old), Nurse, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In detention for 831 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on January 25, 2024, at the start of the siege of the Nasser Medical Complex. In April 2024, the Gaza Media Office stated that he was one of nine doctors who had been abducted from the hospital, and to an unknown location, which was accurately described as “the crime of enforced disappearance.”

The siege of the hospital began on January 16, when MSF reported that, according to their surgeon working in the hospital, “Israeli forces heavily bombed the area close to the hospital with no prior evacuation order, causing patients and many of the thousands of displaced civilians, who had sought refuge in Nasser, to flee in a panic.”

By January 22, MSF staff in Nasser Hospital reported they could “feel the ground shaking”, and that there was “a sense of panic among staff, patients and displaced people sheltering inside the building.” The hospital “was surrounded by fighting, bombing, and subjected to evacuation orders”, and airstrikes had “killed people as close as 150 meters from hospital entrance.”

By January 26, around the time Mr. Mousa was seized, the Health Ministry said that the hospital had “completely run out of food, anaesthetics and painkillers as a result of the occupation’s siege imposed on it for the fifth day”, and that there were “150 health personnel, 350 patients, and hundreds of displaced families in catastrophic conditions of starvation, targeting, and lack of treatment.”

15. Mr. Ali Yousef Mohammed Rostom (60 years old), Administrative staff, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In detention for 831 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was also seized on January 25, 2024, at the start of the siege of the Nasser Medical Complex.

Seized in February 2024

16. Dr Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammed Shehada (52 years old), Cardiology Specialist, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In detention for 825 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on February 1, 2024, during the siege of the Nasser Medical Complex. In April 2024, the Gaza Media Office stated that he was one of nine doctors who had been abducted from the hospital, and to an unknown location, which was accurately described as “the crime of enforced disappearance.”

17. Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim Hussien Tabasi (38 years old), Secretary, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In detention for 825 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on February 1, 2024, during the siege of the Nasser Medical Complex.

18. Mr. Rezeq Essam Rezeq Abu-Azab (31 years old), Maintenance Technician, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In detention for 825 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on February 1, 2024, during the siege of the Nasser Medical Complex.

19. Mr. Mohammed Abdulrahim Shaaban Al-Arbeed (34 years old), Nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

In detention for 824 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on February 2, 2024.

20. Mr. Tamer Mahmoud Hussien Abu-Shahin (48 years old), Paramedic, Al-Amal Hospital, PRCS, Khan Younis

In detention for 821 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on February 5, 2024. It’s reasonable to infer that he was seized at the start of 40 days of attacks on Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society, which led to it being closed on March 26.

Mass detention: seized at Nasser Medical Complex on February 17, 2024

The following doctors and medical staff — 12 in total — were seized after Israeli forces finally invaded Nasser Medical Complex on February 15, 2024, claiming, as the BBC described it, “that the hospital housed Hamas operatives”, and that released hostages said that they had been held there, although no evidence was provided. The BBC’s coverage showed footage of doctors and medical staff “stripped to their underwear in front of the hospital’s emergency building, kneeling with their hands behind their heads”, and with medical robes “lying in front of some of them.” Members of the medical staff who were seized but later freed told the BBC that “they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops.”

Below are those still held, seized on February 17, and held for 810 days as of May 6, 2026. Reports at the time indicated that Israeli forces “arrested a large number of medical staff inside the hospital” on February 17, and that, the day after, the Ministry of Health announced that the occupation forces “arrested 70 health staff and dozens of patients in their beds and took them to unknown locations”, and “left only 25 medical staff in the compound.”

21. Dr. Ghassan Ihmaidan Musallam Abu Zuhri (53 years old), Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

Dr. Ghassan Abu Zuhri’s story didn’t emerge until November 20, 2025, when Michal Feldon wrote an article for +972 Magazine, “The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons”, after speaking to Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra, the head of the hospital’s pediatric and maternity ward, about what he knew about the seven colleagues taken in the raid on February 17, 2024.

Feldon noted that, “When Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra turned his phone camera around in his office, placards reading ‘Freedom to Dr. Abu Teima’ and ‘We will not leave you’ appeared on my screen. They were held by Nahed Abu Teima’s wife and children, who have not spoken to him in nearly two years.”

As the chief of orthopedic surgery at Nasser Hospital, Dr. Abu Zuhri was “a widely respected specialist in joint replacements”, and, in 2017, had “spent a year practicing at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, northern Israel, where he was invited to stay on.” Instead, however, “he chose to return to Gaza to be with his family.”

“Before the war”, Feldon wrote, “his expertise often took him across the West Bank to perform surgeries”, but now Rima, his wife, who” teaches mathematics in schools and colleges”, “supports the family on her own. Twelve members of the extended family share a single tent in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, after their home in Khan Younis was destroyed.”

Feldon added, “Rima and the children have not spoken to Abu Zuhri since his detention. His lawyer has been permitted to see him only twice. During the first visit, Abu Zuhri, who had no prior medical conditions, appeared to suffer from scabies — which the Israeli authorities have allowed to spread rampantly inside prisons during the war — and severe fatigue. By the second visit, he had lost 30 kilograms.”

Dr. Al-Farra “emphasized again and again that Abu Zuhri has no political affiliation of any kind — that he is simply a good man and a physician who upheld his Hippocratic oath, treating every patient regardless of religion, race, or gender”, only later explaining, after the family left the room “why he needed to underline this point.” As he stated, “We think he treated two Israeli hostages, and that’s why he is being denied release. But you see, he treated them the way he treats every patient.”

22. Dr. Nahed Zaki Ismail Abu Taima (49 years old), Chief of Surgery, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

Dr. Nahed Abu Taima was the director of the surgical ward at Nasser Medical Complex, and in April 2024, the Gaza Media Office stated that he was one of nine doctors who had been abducted from the hospital, and to an unknown location, which was accurately described as “the crime of enforced disappearance.”

In his +972 Magazine article, “The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons”, Michal Feldon wrote of Dr. Abu Taima that, “Since his detention, [he] has been permitted to see his lawyer only once every six months. After their most recent meeting in early October, the lawyer informed the family that he has lost 25 kilograms, is beaten daily, is told he will never be released, and is being denied his regular blood pressure medication.”

“At the time of his arrest”, as Feldon proceeded to explain, “Abu Teima had been living with his wife, Arwa, and their nine children inside Nasser Hospital, alongside many other families of medical staff. Israel had destroyed their home in Khan Younis early in the war, and they believed the hospital would offer some protection from the airstrikes. When the Israeli army raided the medical complex, Abu Teima’s family evacuated but he insisted on staying behind to care for the patients who remained. It was the last time his family saw or spoke to him.”

As Feldon added, “Only in August 2024, with the help of PHRI, did they receive confirmation that he was being held at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel. Their first indirect contact, through a lawyer, came three months later — nearly nine months after his arrest.”

Since his arrest, as Feldon described it, “Arwa and the children have been living in a tent in Khan Younis. A practicing gynecologist, she has managed to support the family alone, but it has not been easy: Doctors in Gaza have received no steady salaries since the start of the war, only sporadic lump-sum payments every two to three months.”

When Feldon “asked Arwa how I could support her”, he noted that “she refused the idea of raising money for her family until her husband returns.” What she needed instead “was for us to protest, to write, and to make noise.” “Power,” she said, “not money or food.”

In PHRI’s February 2025 report on Gaza’s detained doctors and medical staff, Dr. Abu Taima spoke about how , and under what circumstances, he had sometimes been required to treat other prisoners, in the absence of any medical support from their captors. “Sometimes I conduct surgeries on other prisoners”, he said, adding, “I clean the abscess and open it with a piece of plastic, then disinfect it with bleach.”

23. Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan Mousa (44 years old), General Surgery Specialist, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In April 2024, the Gaza Media Office stated that he was one of nine doctors who had been abducted from the hospital, and to an unknown location, which was accurately described as “the crime of enforced disappearance.”

24. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmed Khalil Al-Hallaq (37 years old), In-training Intensive Care Physician, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

A photo is here.

25. Dr. Hamza Mohammed Hussien Abu-Sabha (32 years old), In-training physician, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

26. Dr. Mosab Fakhry Atia Samaan (Mosaab Samaan) (29 years old), In-training physician, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

Dr. Samaan, who was previously a teaching assistant at the IUG Faculty of Medicine in Gaza, and a physician at at Al-Aqsa Hospital, had his story reported by PHRI in a Facebook post on November 3, 2025.

At a visit with his PHRI lawyer, on October 20, 2025, he “attested that, as of June 26, 2025, when his last court hearing occurred, he has no criminal charges or indictments filed against him.” Despite this, he “was informed he will remain detained until further notice.” He also mentioned that “no lawyer was present at any of his hearings.”

He was also frustrated that he was not included in any of the post-ceasefire prisoner exchange deals, “stating his confusion as to why he remains in detention when he has not been charged with any criminal activity”, and adding that “he feels emotionally drained and just wants to go home to his family.”

According to PHRI, Dr. Samaan “has repeatedly attested that scabies is widespread in the prison, including among his cellmates”, and “complained of skin problems, including purulent wounds caused by scabies”, stating that “the condition has led to painful boils all over his body, which remained untreated” at the time of the visit. He added that “he has repeatedly requested to see a doctor for treatment, but his requests have been consistently denied.”

“He further mentioned”, as the post explained, “that there is persistent neglect in the provision of medical care, as it is nearly non-existent in the prison, and detainees see a doctor ‘once in a blue moon.’” He also “attested to a severe lack of proper nutrition — deficient in both quantity and nutritional quality.”

27. Mr. Ahmed Amin Mohammed Abdelhadi (27 years old), Nurse, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

28. Mr. Ahmed Abdulrahman Salem Sadeq (28 years old), Nurse, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

29. Mr. Mohammed Bassam Ismail Al-Qedra (35 years old), Paramedic, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

30. Mr. Waleed Hammad Saleh Abu-Haddaf (34 years old), Paramedic, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

31. Dr. Iyad Ibrahim Hussien Shaqoura, PhD (43 years old), Pharmacist, PhD in Health Administration, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

32. Mr. Ahmed Mosaad Mahmoud Abu-Tabanja (24 years old), Hospital Security, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

33. Ms. Malak Anwar Mahmoud Abu Madi (21 years old), Nursing student, volunteered at Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

The only woman on the list, Ms. Abu Madi has been detention for 803 days as of May 6, 2026, which would mean that she was seized on February 24, 2024.

Two years since her disappearance, her mother, Tahrir Abu Madi, who had received a death certificate for her daughter, was shocked to discover that she was listed as a detainee. She explained how Malak had “returned to the family home in west Khan Younis to collect belongings” for her continuing volunteering at the hospital, “when Israeli forces stormed the area.” She added that “four relatives were later found executed and burned, reportedly while handcuffed”, and that her son, Yousef, remains missing.

34. Dr. Omar Ahmed Omar Ammar (66 years old), Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (Retired), Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis

In detention for 794 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on March 4, 2024.

In his +972 Magazine article, “The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons”, Michal Feldon spoke with the family of Dr. Omar Ammar, who he described as “a 67-year-old retired gynecologist from Khan Younis who helped popularize the use of Pap tests to detect cervical cancer in Gaza.” He added that, “Unlike the other doctors who were detained during the Israeli army’s raid on Nasser Hospital, Ammar disappeared in March 2024 as the army encircled Khan Younis.”

As he proceeded to explain, “His wife, Jihan, and their daughters learned he was in detention only when they recognized him in a photo circulating on social media — a group of Palestinian men stripped, blindfolded, and kneeling in a large, empty pool, guarded by Israeli soldiers. It took Jihan months to confirm his whereabouts. According to testimony Ammar gave to PHRI in October 2024, eight months after his arrest, he had been transferred between three facilities before being placed in Nafha Prison in the Negev/Naqab, where he has remained since June.”

Feldon added, “Through the Red Cross, which connected her with PHRI, Jihan was able to secure a lawyer, who has met with Ammar twice. The lawyer reported that he has lost 25 kilograms, is losing his hair, and has developed scabies but is not provided clean clothes. Nafha Prison offers no soap; detainees are attacked by guard dogs and are deliberately woken every two to three hours throughout the night.”

As he also explained, “Jihan and the couple’s three children have been displaced 15 times since the start of the war and now live in a tent in Deir Al-Balah. Both daughters suffer from low blood pressure and have each lost more than 10 kilograms. Jihan herself lives with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic heart problems, and has been unable to access her routine medications for months.”

Mass detention: seized at Al-Shifa Hospital in March 2024

The following doctors and medical staff — 11 in total — were seized after Israeli forces, with unprecedented depravity, attacked Al-Shifa Hospital again, in a two-week long onslaught that left the hospital destroyed.

The onslaught began on March 18, when the health ministry stated that around 30,000 people, including displaced civilians, wounded patients and medical staff, were trapped inside the hospital, and that anyone “who tries to move is targeted by sniper bullets and quadcopter.” After storming the hospital, Israeli forces opened fire inside the building, later bragging that, by March 20, its soldiers had killed 90 people, and that “about 300 suspects were interrogated at the complex and more than 160 detained were brought to Israel ‘for further investigation.’”

Al those listed below were seized on March 19 and 20, and have been held for 778 or 779 days as of May 6, 2026.

35. Dr. Murad Waleed Murad Al-Qouqa (Al-Quqa) (47 years old), Head of Orthopaedic Surgery Department, Al-Shifa Hospital

A photo is here.

36. Mr. Anas Abdulkareem Mohammed Al-shaikh (40 years old), Head of Infection Control Unit, the Indonesian Hospital

As the Indonesian Hospital had been shut down by this time, and turned into a barracks for the Israeli army, it seems reasonable to assume that Mr. Al-Shaikh was seized in Al-Shifa Hospital.

37. Mr. Rawhi Fayez Mohammed Al-Labban (38 years old), Chief Nurse, Orthopaedics Department, Al-Shifa Hospital

38. Mr. Rami Hasan Abdulqader Al-Kurdi (34 years old), Volunteering nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

39. Mr. Azzam Khalid Motleq Eissa (35 years old), Volunteering nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

40. Mr. Ezz-Elddin Moustafa Hussein Al-Za’anin (27 years old), Volunteering nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

41. Mr. Majed Jamal Roubin Al-Jaish (27 years old), Volunteering nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

42. Mr. Louai Majed Darwish Harara (36 years old), Volunteering nurse, Al-Shifa Hospital

43. Mr. Yousef Khalil Mohammed Abu-Afesh (30 years old), Secretary of Director General, Al- Shifa Hospital

44. Mr. Hammouda Riyad Asaad Shamallakh (34 years old), Web and Software Engineer, General Administration of Computer and Information Systems, Ministry of Health

In detention for 779 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on March 20, 2024, and may have been seized at Al-Shifa Hospital.

45. Mr. Saleh Maher Mahmoud Abu Ammona (32 years old), Web and Software Engineer, General Administration of Computer and Information Systems, Ministry of Health

In detention for 779 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on March 20, 2024, and may have been seized at Al-Shifa Hospital.

Mass detention: seized at Kamal Adwan Hospital on October 26, 2024

The following doctors and medical staff — 21 in total — were seized on October 26, 2024, when Israeli forces invaded Kamal Adwan Hospital — the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza — during the implementation of the “genocide within a genocide” of “the Generals’ Plan.” They have been held for 557 days as of May 6, 2026.

The hospital had already been invaded in December 2023, when its director, Dr. Ahmad Al-Kahlout, was seized, and it was attacked again in May 2024. On October 8, when Israeli forces ordered the hospital’s evacuation, the new director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, refused, saying, “We have babies and newborns that are in the ICU. Even if we can evacuate a few patients, we cannot leave the hospital because there is no other hospital that is providing services and treatment to children.”

After firing tank rounds at the hospital on October 24, the Israeli army invaded it on October 25, when, as the health ministry reported, “At least 600 patients, companions, and staff were trapped” inside. On October 26, the WHO stated that 44 health workers had been detained, and 21 of them are still held, listed below.

46. Dr. Hassan Khalil Hassan Al-Moqayyed (54 years old), Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Kamal Adwan Hospital

A photo is here.

47. Dr Mohammed Hassan Ali Obaid (43 years old), Consultant Orthopaedics Surgeon, Head of Orthopaedics Department at Al-Awda Hospital and other hospitals

Dr. Obaid was working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and on October 31, 2024, they issued a press release stating that they had “received confirmation that Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon, has been detained by Israeli forces along with several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza during a military operation at the hospital on 26 October”, adding, “We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague.”

As MSF added, “Dr. Obeid has been working tirelessly since the beginning of the war, offering his support as a doctor to multiple hospitals in Gaza. His work has saved countless lives. Our last contact with Dr. Obeid was on the afternoon of 25 October. He had been sheltering and offering his support as a surgeon at Kamal Adwan Hospital when it was besieged by Israeli forces. We have officially requested information from the Israeli authorities on Dr. Obeid’s detention status, his current location, and any information regarding his physical and mental well-being. We call for the safety and the protection of our colleague, and for all medical staff in Gaza who work under impossible conditions and are facing horrific violence as they try to provide care.”

The Institute for Palestine Studies noted that Dr. Obeid, who worked for MSF-Belgium, “was besieged in several hospitals and moved to work from one hospital to the next after being forced to evacuate the hospital he was working in.”

48. Mr Mahmoud Mohammed Awad Al-Shaweesh Lubbad (44 years old), Chief Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

49. Mr. Hamza Mansour Abdulkareem Nayfa (28 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

50. Mr. Hossam Waleed Abdulhameed Daher (28 years old), Volunteering nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

51. Mr. Hatem Hussien Ibrahim Al-Jamal (49 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

52. Mr. Moataz Nabeel Nathmi Nassar (37 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

53. Mr. Al-Hassan Nabeel Nathmi Nassar (34 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

54. Mr. Anwar Muneer Anwar Al-Shorbaji (25 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

55. Mr. Ibrahim Wajeeh Ismail Al-Ayoubi (35 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital, North Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital

56. Mr. Saleh Hashem Hassan Abu-Al-Aish (33 years old), Nurse, Kamal Adwan Hospital

57. Mr. Moayyad Mounir Fahmi Al-Masri (36 years old), Nurse, Infection Control Unit,

Palestinian Ministry of Health, volunteered at Kamal Adwan Hospital

58. Mr. Wesam Essam Yousuf Abu-Nada (36 years old), Paramedic, Kamal Adwan Hospital

59. Mr. Abdullah Abdulhafez Abdullah Awkal (45 years old), Paramedic, Kamal Adwan Hospital

60. Mr. Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed Abu-Saqer (40 years old), Paramedic, Kamal Adwan Hospital

61. Mr. Ali Hassan Khader Al-Rantisi (31 years old), Paramedic, Kamal Adwan Hospital

62. Mr. Nidal Fayez Jibreel Al-Moqayyad (32 years old), Administrative staff, Kamal Adwan Hospital

63. Mr. Bahaa-Al-Din Hosni Mahmoud Ashour (30 years old), Administrative staff, Kamal Adwan Hospital

64. Mr. Abdullah Omar Ali Abu-Rayya (43 years old), Administrative staff, Kamal Adwan Hospital

65. Mr. Jaber Moustafa Ahmed Al-Fairi (63 years old), Morgue worker, Kamal Adwan Hospital

66. Mr. Omar Mohammed Eid Al-Hawajri (55 years old), Morgue worker, Kamal Adwan Hospital

67. Mr. Ameer Khalil Mohammed Shehada (37 years old), Nurse, MSc Community Mental Health, IUG, Ministry of Health

In detention for 555 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on October 28, 2024, and may have been at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

68. Mr. Hussien Mostafa Hussien Al-Zaaneen (43 years old), Nurse, Beit Hanoun Clinic, North Gaza

In detention for 514 days as of May 6, 2026, this would mean that he was seized on December 8, 2024.

Seized at Kamal Adwan Hospital on December 27, 2024

69. Dr. Hussam Idrees Amer Abu Safiya (52 years old), Consultant Paediatrician, Acting Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital

No one who has seen the photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, in his white medical coat, walking calmly towards an Israeli tank, on December 27, 2024, after a truly heroic three-month effort to keep his hospital functioning, will ever forget what stands as an iconic photo of resistance to unparalleled depravity.

As of May 6, 2026, he has been in detention for 495 days. Less well-known are those seized on the same day, who are listed below.

70. Mr. Moayad Ismail Darwish Al-Ron, MSc (44 years old), Chief of Infection Control, Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Nurse, the Indonesian Hospital

Moayad Al-Ron has a Masters in Healthcare Management from the Islamic University of Gaza, and was presumably working at Kamal Adwan Hospital after the Indonesian Hospital shut down. A photo is on his Facebook page here.

71. Mr. Abdulaziz Moustafa Salman Kali (39 years old), Paramedic, Military Medical Services, North Gaza

72. Mr. Maher Mohammed Mohsin Al-Ajrami (52 years old), Paramedic, Kamal Adwan Hospital

It is not known whether Maher Al-Ajrami is in detention of if he was killed, as, on December 26, 2024, news reports suggested that two paramedics, Abdulmajid Abu Al-Eish and Maher Al-Ajrami, were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, while they were responding to emergency calls.

73. Mr. Mohammed Eid Abdulqader Sabbah (32 years old), Public Relations Specialist, Kamal Adwan Hospital

Seized on July 21, 2025

74. Dr. Marwan Shafeeq Ali Al-Hams (53 years old ), Consultant of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Director of Field Hospitals, Ministry of Health

The former director of the Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, before its staff and patients were forced to evacuate, on May 7, 2024, and it was destroyed by the IDF in October 2024, Dr. Marwan Al-Hams was also a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. He was seized on July 21, 2025, when, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Israeli special forces, armed but in civilian clothing, “raided Sea Castle Cafeteria, located opposite the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital on al-Rasheed Coastal Street in al-Mawasi, western Rafah.”

As the PCHR report explains, “The assailants opened fire” on Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, who “was wounded in the leg, while freelance photojournalist Tamer Rebhi Rafiq Al-Za’anin was killed and another photojournalist [working for Channel 4 News] was wounded — his name is Ibrahim Atef Atiyah Abu Asheibah.” In addition, “MOH administrative employee Belal Fayez Jom’ah Barhoum (42) was seriously wounded.” PCHR noted that the assault “occurred during the preparation of media content for a documentary being produced by Tamer al-Za’anin in collaboration with Dr. Marwan Al-Hams.”

On October 2, 2025, Dr. Al-Hams’ daughter, Tasneem, 23, was also abducted, although she was released on November 27, when she “told local media she was abducted by members of the Israel-backed Popular Forces armed group, otherwise known as Abu Shabab gang”, who then handed her over to the Israelis. She also said that “she was transferred between various Israeli prisons and detention centres while in their custody, including the Ashkelon prison where her father is being held”, and was “used as a means of pressure” on her father, who she was allowed to meet with only briefly, while he was being interrogated.  

Dr. Al-Hams has been in detention for 289 days as of May 6, 2026.

Seized on November 19, 2025

75. Mr. Mukhlis Mohammed Hamad Khafaja (49 years old), Paramedic, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

The last of the doctors and medical staff seized and still in detention, Mukhlis Khafaja was, according to his family, seized sometime after dawn on November 19, 2025, “after he left Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital while performing his humanitarian and professional duty of providing first aid to his people.”

Mr. Khafaja has been in detention for 168 days as of May 6, 2026.

NOTE: Please do read the HWW report for details of the eight doctors and medical staff from the West Bank who are still held, for the five who are missing, and for the six who have been killed.

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Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer (of a photo-journalism project, ‘The State of London’, which ran from 2012 to 2023), film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (see the ongoing photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, which you can watch on YouTube here.

In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of the documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and, in 2018, he was part of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford, to try to prevent its destruction — and that of 16 structurally sound council flats next door — by Lewisham Council and Peabody.

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