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Some Palestinian medical workers are still in Israeli detention · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We have breaking news. President Trump is now in Egypt
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  Speaker 1: to co chair a peace summit with world leaders on
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  Speaker 1: the future of Gaza. The talks come just hours after
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  Speaker 1: her mass release the last living Israeli hostages. We're starting
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  Speaker 1: to see videos of their reunions with families. Meanwhile, Israel's
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  Speaker 1: also releasing bus loads of Palestinian prisoners back to Gaza
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  Speaker 1: and physicians for Human Rights Israel Director of Prisoners and Detainees,
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  Speaker 1: Naji Ubas is here for more and Naja Bass, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. This fighting has stopped
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza, but medical workers there still need help. What
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  Speaker 1: challenges are they facing now and what do they need?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Diane. Actually, unfortunately with all the celebration about
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  Speaker 2: the deal, a dozens of healthcare workers, doctors and nurses
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  Speaker 2: are not getting released today. Why. We don't know why yet. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: these people are being held for months, some of them
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  Speaker 2: for more than a year in attention. And those are
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  Speaker 2: facilities without being charged, being held with horrific conditions, being tortured, stoved,
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  Speaker 2: denied from medical care and medical treatment. And yet they
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  Speaker 2: don't know why they are being prison and why they
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  Speaker 2: are still in attention. And unfortunately they are not getting.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Your organization was hoping a director of one of
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  Speaker 1: Gaza's hospital's, doctor Husamabusafia, would be one of the prisoners
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  Speaker 1: released today. An Idea of spokesperson said the doctor was
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  Speaker 1: detained over potential involvement in terrorist activity. Have you heard
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  Speaker 1: anything about his status and what's your reaction to the
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  Speaker 1: accusations they're making against him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we visited. Our lawyer visited doctor Sophia a month
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  Speaker 2: ago and he witness that he is being held, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, in a very hard condition. He's suffering from
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  Speaker 2: medical issues and not getting his treatment. He didn't see
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  Speaker 2: a lawyer, they didn't see a judge. He didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a fair royal. So these accusations that the Israelis are
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  Speaker 2: throwing to the media, on the ground, on the court,
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  Speaker 2: you don't see it. It's just a media, a propaganda
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  Speaker 2: for the media. Doctoria, by the Israel law is not
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  Speaker 2: accused or charged with any offense. That's a fact, it's
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  Speaker 2: not a claim. But the Israeli leaders are repeating on
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  Speaker 2: the media it's just a propaganda. And we are speaking
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  Speaker 2: about nine months the doctor Sophia and detention. If they
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  Speaker 2: had something against him, he would be charged till now.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately, and to be to make it clear, doctor
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  Speaker 2: Sophia is not the only one. There is two twenty
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  Speaker 2: doctors who are stealing detention who didn't get released today,
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  Speaker 2: like doctor doctor abut Eima, doctor Hasam about Sophia. All
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  Speaker 2: of these doctors are not getting released. And unfortunately this
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  Speaker 2: deal was supposed by it to the goal of the
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  Speaker 2: of the deal was to release all the hostages, the
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  Speaker 2: hostages from both sides. But today, besides these doctors, thousands
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  Speaker 2: of Palastinia are stealing detention without being charged with any offense.
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  Speaker 1: What does justice or accountability look like to you?
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  Speaker 2: Justice and the accountability first of all, is to release
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  Speaker 2: these people who are not being charged, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: and we are speaking about doctors who some of them
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  Speaker 2: died in detention while in detention in Israeli prisons, like
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  Speaker 2: doctor Adnanel. Until now, we don't know about any god
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  Speaker 2: or any soldier who was arrested or faced any accountability
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  Speaker 2: about the death of doctor adnal Bush, although there are
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  Speaker 2: some testimonies describing that he was beaten before his death.
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  Speaker 2: So today also unfortunately, actually those rare authorities are not
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  Speaker 2: applying any accountability when we are speaking about crimes and
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  Speaker 2: violations toward Prestinian detainees.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is in Egypt now is about to meet
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  Speaker 1: with several world leaders to start talking about the next
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  Speaker 1: stage of this piece deal. What do you want to
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  Speaker 1: see and hear from them.
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  Speaker 2: That, as I said, we hope that this deal will
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  Speaker 2: end with realising all the hostages from both sides. We
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  Speaker 2: are happy that the genociding Gaza, that the war had ended,
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  Speaker 2: that the bombing had ended, that all hostages were released.
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  Speaker 2: But we are very said that thousands of Palastinians stealing detention.
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  Speaker 2: We are speaking about three thousand and five hundred Palaestinians
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  Speaker 2: who are held under administra of detention. Besides those, dozens
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  Speaker 2: of healthcare workers from Guds are stelling detention. What we
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  Speaker 2: are calling for more a year and a half, that
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  Speaker 2: all these people should be released because or they should
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  Speaker 2: be released or there should be charged thereasually authorities can't
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  Speaker 2: In Hebrew they call it a dancing in two weddings.
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  Speaker 2: You can't claim that you are state of law, that
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  Speaker 2: you have a legal system while you are helding thousands
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  Speaker 2: of people civilians, healthcare workers, doctors and nurses without in
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  Speaker 2: charging them. In horrific conditions. People are dying. Dozens of
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian died in the Israeli president in the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: People are starved, people are denied of all any medical treatment.
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  Speaker 2: So what we are calling for, mister Trump and all
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  Speaker 2: presidents and to the Israeli authorities to release these people
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  Speaker 2: to their families and their homes.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Najia, Boss, we appreciate you making the time
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  Speaker 1: to talk to us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.