Palestinian Doctor Dies in Israeli Prison After Four-Month Detention
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, 50, who served as the head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, has died in an Israeli prison following more than four months in detention, as reported by Palestinian prisoner associations.
The Israeli prison service confirmed that a statement released on April 19 regarding a prisoner detained for national security reasons and who died in Ofer prison referred to Dr. Al-Bursh. However, no information regarding the cause of death was disclosed, with the prison service indicating that an investigation into the matter is ongoing and if history is anything to go by that will not be forthcoming and forgotten by the passage of time!
In a joint statement on Thursday, Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups described Dr. Al-Bursh’s death as an “assassination,” highlighting that his body remains in Israeli custody.
Dr. Al-Bursh, who held the position of head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s largest medical facility, al-Shifa Hospital, experienced multiple raids by Israeli armed forces at the hospital. He was detained by Israeli forces while temporarily working at Al-Awada Hospital in north Gaza.
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This is a red line and the international community need to demand that this death be fully and independently investigated, this doctor, Adnan Al-Bursh, a senior surgeon and head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s biggest hospital, the now wrecked Al Shiffa Hospital, was detained 4 months ago and held without charge or any legal or other humane intervention. These targeted killings of medical staff are war crimes and the US, UK and other signatories to the various international laws that they helped to write should START TO UPHOLD THEM, History will quite rightly hold them complicit in being totally inactive in holding Israel to account and preventing these horrific crimes against humanity . The government in Tel Aviv under Netanyahu have made it clear over and over again that they have no intention of obeying any rules, waging war on a unarmed populace mainly women and children with a death toll now over 35000, their continued membership of the UN is a sham and a disgusting charade!