LONDON PROTEST: Hundreds Storm Downing Street to Demand Israel Release Gaza Doctor Abu Safiya!

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(July 8, 2026) — Hundreds of human rights activists, medical professionals, and political figures rallied outside Downing Street on Tuesday, demanding the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a prominent Palestinian paediatrician and former director of northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been held by Israeli authorities without formal charge since December 2024.

Waving flags and chanting anti-war slogans, demonstrators highlighted newly emerged, severe allegations of daily physical abuse, threats, and medical neglect surrounding Abu Safiya at the underground Rakevet detention center, where a recent legal visit described him as near collapse.

Prominent British Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn joined the demonstration, heavily criticizing the UK government for failing to exert sufficient pressure on Israel and demanding total alignment with the provisional measures outlined by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC).

While international rights groups and United Nations experts have called the systematic detention of Palestinian medical personnel a stark violation of the Geneva Conventions, Israeli defense officials maintain that Abu Safiya was detained under suspicion of facilitating regional militant operations inside his hospital infrastructure — allegations strictly denied by his medical colleagues.