https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pm-challenged-act-over-abducted-gaza-medics
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to business leaders during a reception at EY headquarters ahead of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 21, 2025LEADING Scottish medics have joined more than 500 healthcare professionals from across Britain demanding the Prime Minister act to secure the release of a Palestinian doctor and his colleagues abducted by Israeli forces.
Head of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital Dr Abu Safiya was taken from its ruins in December 2024 and has since been held with peers without charge in conditions human rights lawyers have described as inhumane.
In an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer, the medics argue that the situation has become a “matter of life and death,” with the Israeli state not only facing accusations of organ harvesting from deceased detainees, but proposals currently before the Knesset which would permit the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terrorism charges in its military courts.
These courts have a 99 per cent conviction rate.
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