Since his abduction, Dr. Hussam was denied access to his lawyers for 45 days and has been subjected to intense torture including being forcibly stripped, forced to sit on sharp stones for hours, beaten with electric shocks and batons and thrown in solitary confinement for 25 days. As a result of this torture and physical abuse he has suffered multiple broken ribs and a severe eye injury. At one point he lost consciousness in his cell due to severe breathing difficulties. Dr. Hussam also suffers from heart muscle enlargement, and has requested access to healthcare from IOF on several occasions - requests that have been continuously denied.

Today we join Dr. Hussam’s family in calling for his immediate release and freedom, along with the freedom of all imprisoned Palestinian health care workers and the over 10,000 political prisoners unjustly jailed by the genocidal zionist occupation.

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Today on the first day of Eid, at least 70 Palestinians were martyred in Gaza. As journalist Anas Al Sharif reported, "Not an hour has passed without israeli shelling or targeting of civilian homes" with most of the martyrs being "children who were killed while wearing their Eid clothes." "The airstrikes that hit Gaza tonight," he added, "were unlike anything witnessed since the beginning" of the ongoing genocide.

On this Eid of Rage, the bodies of fourteen martyred rescue workers were also recovered in Rafah after they were targeted and massacred by occupation forces on March 23rd while attempting to save the lives of wounded Palestinians. Eight of the martyrs were paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, five were members of the Palestinian Civil Defence, and one was a UN employee.

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For the past week, their fate was unknown after contact with them was cut off and zionist forces blocked rescue teams coordinated by the UN from reaching them. On Friday the PRCS discovered the four ambulance vehicles belonging to the missing rescue teams “completely destroyed and buried in the sand.” The bodies of the martyred rescue workers were also found buried in the sand, in what PRCS condemned as a “premeditated crime,” raising questions as to whether they were murdered by IOF in field executions and then buried to conceal the massacre.

The names of the martyred paramedics from the PRCS are Mustafa Khafaja, Ezzedine Sha’at, Saleh Moammar, Rifaat Radwan, Mohammad Behloul, Ashraf Abu Labda, Mohammad Al-Hila, and Raed Al-Sharif. A ninth PRCs paramedic named Asaad Al-Nasasra is still missing.

In a statement released today, the PalestineRCS declared “This massacre of our team is a tragedy not only for us at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, but also for humanitarian work and humanity.”

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“This scene represents one of the most brutal massacres Gaza has witnessed in modern history” — According to testimony from the rescue team that recovered the bodies yesterday of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Civil Defence and United Nations who were massacred in Rafah on March 23rd, the martyred first responders were executed one by one by israeli occupation forces and then buried in a mass grave alongside their ambulances by a bulldozer.

Anwar al-Attar, a member of the Palestinian Civil Defence whose body was the first to be recovered on March 28th, was found shot in the head and chest, with his "vest and helmet punctured by over 20 bullet holes." The rescue team also stated that at least one of the martyrs had their legs bound while others were found handcuffed. According to a spokesperson for the rescue team, “This scene represents one of the most brutal massacres Gaza has witnessed in modern history.”

The executions of the first responders on March 23rd took place as occupation forces carried out other mass executions of Palestinian civilians in Rafah over the past week, with young men being rounded up in ditches and shot at point-blank range and children being murdered in front of their mothers, according to survivors who recounted the horrors they endured and witnessed to journalists.

In the past 18 months during the ongoing genocide in Gaza the zionist entity has targeted and murdered at least 105 members of the Palestinian Civil Defence, 27 Palestine Red Crescent paramedics, 284 UN agency staff and nearly 1,400 healthcare workers. In the past two weeks alone since March 18th, over 1,000 Palestinians have been martyred in relentless israeli airstrikes and shelling extending from the north of Gaza to the south.

EMERGENCY: ALL OUT TO COLUMBIA!

📢 Wednesday, April 2, 2024
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 117th St & Broadway

Students have chained themselves to the Chapel gates demanding Columbia divest from genocide, cut all ties with ICE, and fight for the freedom of Mahmoud Khalil! Stand with them—we must escalate now!

🇵🇸 Gaza is starving. Over 300,000 murdered, entire families wiped out, and millions on the brink of famine as the U.S. arms and funds Israel’s genocide. Columbia is complicit—invested in weapons manufacturers and institutions that uphold apartheid.

🔥 The time for neutrality is over. Join Columbia students in the fight for liberation now!

Students who chained themselves to the Columbia gates and their supporters are still going strong 🇵🇸 KEEP MOBILIZING TO W 117TH & BROADWAY

FREE, FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!Free all Palestinian prisoners, from Gaza to New York! ✊🏼

Students and supporters will be rallying all night, stand in solidarity at the Columbia gates! 📍W 117th & Broadway

🇵🇸 NYC Students chanting for Gaza‼️

We demand our institutions cease all collaboration with the state, divest immediately, remove all arms manufacturers and entities responsible for the genocide from campus, reject anti-Palestinian financial coercion from the Trump Administration, and turn over decision-making power to the united students, faculty, and staff.

27th and 6th ave‼️

🇵🇸 1 2 3 4 Open up the prison doors! 5 6 7 8 israel is a terrorist state!

📍6th ave and 21 st

Updates will be posted on x.com/wolpalestine and t.me/wolprotest

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 1 2 3 4 Occupation no more! 5 6 7 8 israel is a terrorist state!

📍 7th ave 18th st

🇵🇸 NYC students protesting for Palestine‼️
📍5th ave and 16th st

🇵🇸 Gaza! Gaza! Gaza! 🇵🇸
Currently at Washington Square Park‼️

🗓 Monday, April 7th, 2025
🕓 4 PM
📍 UN Headquarters (405 E. 45th St.)

This World Health Day, Gaza urgently calls for a Global Strike to stop the genocide. No school. No universities. No work. We must act NOW.

As the world focuses on maternal and newborn health, Gaza is being denied the most basic rights to life. Hospitals are destroyed, and mothers and babies are dying from lack of care and being massacred by U.S.-made bombs.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu—wanted by the ICC for war crimes—is visiting the White House on the same day.

Join us at the UN to demand justice for Gaza! End Zionist war crimes, stop U.S. complicity, and hold the perpetrators accountable.

We cannot stay silent while an entire population is starved, bombed, and erased. Mobilize. Move. Protest.

#GlobalStrikeForPalestine #FreePalestine #EndTheGenocide