Renowned Gaza doctor killed by torture in Israeli prison

Adnan Al-Bursh, a renowned Palestinian surgeon from Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital has been killed by torture during his detention in Israeli prison.

In a joint statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Committee and the Palestinian Prisoner’s



Society said 50-year-old Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics, died in the Israel-controlled Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank on April 19, in what has been termed “deliberate assassination.”

His body remains withheld by the Israel authorities.