Gaza hospital chief held at notorious Sde Teiman prison, released detainees say

The director of Gaza's last functioning hospital is being held at Israel's notorious Sde Teiman prison, where abuse - including torture, murder and rape - is rife, recently released detainees have said.

Hussam Abu Safiya has not been seen in public since Friday, when Israeli forces stormed the bombed-out Kamal Adwan Hospital following a nearly three-month blockade of northern Gaza.

All medical staff, patients and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear and transferred to an unknown location.

The last photo of Abu Safiya showed him walking alone towards a row of Israeli tanks that had amassed outside the facility.

On Saturday, the Israeli military said - without providing any evidence - that it was holding Abu Safiya on suspicions of "being a Hamas terrorist operative".

On Sunday, several former detainees at Sde Teiman, a military prison in Israel's Negev desert, said the director and other medics from Kamal Adwan were being kept there.

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