Published : 26-12-2021
Four Palestinian doctors have been enduring mysterious fates in Syrian prisons for over eight years running.
Palestinian medic Hayel Hamid has been forcibly disappeared since August 13, 2012. He was kidnapped from his clinic in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus, on charges of tending to wounded persons.
Hayel, born in 1948 in Dalata in occupied Palestine, worked as a professor at the Damascus Faculty of Medicine and assumed duties as head of the General Surgery Division at Al-Assad University Hospital. His condition and whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery.
Palestinian medic Alaa AlDeen Youssef has also been kept behind Syrian prison bars for the eighth consecutive year.
Neurosurgeon Youssef has been forcibly disappeared since December 25, 2012. He was kidnapped from a checkpoint pitched near the main entrance to Yarmouk Camp.
Palestinian refugee Nizar Jawdat Kassab has been secretly jailed in Syria for the ninth year running.
Nizar, a genitourinary surgeon, was arrested at a government checkpoint pitched near Yarmouk’s entrance on December 16, 2012.
At the same time, Mohamed Omar Abu AlNa’aj has been secretly imprisoned since mid-February 2013 while on his way to Lebanon to reunite with his wife and child.
Medical staff and structures in war-torn Syria came under heavy shelling by the government squads. Dozens of doctors, pharmacists, and paramedics have been pronounced dead while others have gone missing. A number of medics have reportedly been tortured to death on allegations of tending to the wounded and providing medical assistance to rival parties.
AGPS has kept record of serious violations against medics, paramedics, and ambulances by the different warring parties in Syria. Wounded civilians, expectant women, elderly people, and hundreds of humanitarian cases have faced severe difficulties trying to reach hospitals and medical centers.
AGPS reiterates its calls to the Syrian government and all other concerned parties to protect medics and paramedics carrying out humanitarian missions in tension-stricken zones.
Four Palestinian doctors have been enduring mysterious fates in Syrian prisons for over eight years running.
Palestinian medic Hayel Hamid has been forcibly disappeared since August 13, 2012. He was kidnapped from his clinic in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus, on charges of tending to wounded persons.
Hayel, born in 1948 in Dalata in occupied Palestine, worked as a professor at the Damascus Faculty of Medicine and assumed duties as head of the General Surgery Division at Al-Assad University Hospital. His condition and whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery.
Palestinian medic Alaa AlDeen Youssef has also been kept behind Syrian prison bars for the eighth consecutive year.
Neurosurgeon Youssef has been forcibly disappeared since December 25, 2012. He was kidnapped from a checkpoint pitched near the main entrance to Yarmouk Camp.
Palestinian refugee Nizar Jawdat Kassab has been secretly jailed in Syria for the ninth year running.
Nizar, a genitourinary surgeon, was arrested at a government checkpoint pitched near Yarmouk’s entrance on December 16, 2012.
At the same time, Mohamed Omar Abu AlNa’aj has been secretly imprisoned since mid-February 2013 while on his way to Lebanon to reunite with his wife and child.
Medical staff and structures in war-torn Syria came under heavy shelling by the government squads. Dozens of doctors, pharmacists, and paramedics have been pronounced dead while others have gone missing. A number of medics have reportedly been tortured to death on allegations of tending to the wounded and providing medical assistance to rival parties.
AGPS has kept record of serious violations against medics, paramedics, and ambulances by the different warring parties in Syria. Wounded civilians, expectant women, elderly people, and hundreds of humanitarian cases have faced severe difficulties trying to reach hospitals and medical centers.
AGPS reiterates its calls to the Syrian government and all other concerned parties to protect medics and paramedics carrying out humanitarian missions in tension-stricken zones.
