Israel releases Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital director, many others, as prisons overcrowded
The Israeli regime has released the director of the Gaza Strip’s al-Shifa Hospital after eight months as the occupying entity’s prisons are full.
The regime’s public broadcaster Kan reported Muhammad Abu Salmiya’s release on Monday, saying he had been freed along with dozens of other Palestinians.
Abu Salmiya had been arrested in Gaza in November, more than a month into a genocidal war by the regime against the coastal sliver that has so far killed nearly 38,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Since the beginning of the war, Israeli forces have arrested hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza, while the exact number of the detainees, who are being held at Israeli prisons, is not known.
Last month, the Israeli broadcaster reported that the regime’s military and the so-called internal security service, Shin Bet, had been forced to cancel about 20 arrest campaigns due to a lack of space at the facilities.
Upon arrest, Abu Salmiya was subjected to inquisition over the regime’s allegations that the hospital housed a “command center” belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Shortly after release, he told Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network that the Palestinian detainees were being tortured “day and night” at the prison facilities.
The comments corroborated widespread reports of abuse at the facilities, including one by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that was published in April, showing how the inmates were being subjected to regular beatings and attacks by dogs as well as water and food deprivation among many other instances of mistreatment.
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