The Israeli government kidnapped a Palestinian doctor named Hussam Abu Safiya, tortured him and are refusing to release him. As we read in Wikipedia:
On 11 February 2025, Abu Safiya was allowed to meet his lawyer in Ofer Prison, located in the occupied West Bank. During their meeting, he reported being subjected to various forms of torture and abuse, including being forcibly stripped, tightly shackled, and forced to sit on sharp gravel for hours. He also endured violent physical assaults, such as beatings with batons and electric shock sticks.
Also according to Middle East Eye:
Israel has said it will not release two detained Palestinian doctors, including paediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya, as part of the ceasefire deal, a Hamas official told CNN.
Safiya was beaten and kidnapped by Israeli forces in Gaza during a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in December last year after he refused to abandon patients under siege.
Footage in the aftermath of the attack showed Safiya wearing a white medical overcoat crossing a street strewn with rubble.
The Israeli military said Safiya was being held as a “suspect” and being questioned over “potential involvement in terrorist activity”.
Safiya has been held since then without charge.
Despite the agreement to swap captives as part of a ceasefire deal earlier this week, a Hamas source said that Safiya would not be released.
“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.
In July, lawyer Ghaid Ghanem Qassem revealed that Safiya had lost over a third of his bodyweight in detention in Israel’s notorious Ofer prison, was being brutally beaten and that his repeated requests for medical attention had been refused.
“Dr Hossam Abu Safieh is not okay. My most recent visit to him was just a few days ago, on 9 July 2025. He has lost more than 40 kg – over a third of his weight,” Qassem said in a post on Facebook.
“At the time of his arrest, he weighed 100 kilograms. Today, his weight does not exceed 60,” she said, adding that he was “severely beaten on 24 June 2025”.
“His cell in Ofer Prison – Cell 1, Section 24 – was specifically targeted. He was brutally beaten in the chest area.”