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Israel fully responsible for Dr. Al-Hams’s life after abduction: Hamas

Tuesday, 22 July 2025 4:18 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 22 July 2025 4:45 AM ]

Dr. Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals in Gaza, was abducted while visiting an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facility in Rafah.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has declared that it holds the “fascist” Israeli regime fully responsible for the life of Dr. Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals in Gaza, who was abducted while visiting an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facility in Rafah.

In a statement on Monday, Hamas said Israeli forces opened fire on the ambulance transporting al-Hams, killing several civilians, including journalist Tamer al-Zaanin.

The Gaza-based group denounced the raid as a “deliberate escalation” in Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza’s medical sector through killings, detentions, and terror.

“We hold the fascist occupation government fully responsible for the life of Dr. Al-Hams and the hundreds of detained medical staff held under inhumane conditions,” it said.

Hamas also warned of the dire conditions faced by hundreds of detained medical staff and called on international bodies, especially the ICRC and the World Health Organization, to condemn the act, push for the release of all detained medical personnel, and help end what it described as a genocide targeting life in Gaza.

Israeli forces abducted al-Hams, who is also the director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, outside the ICRC field hospital in northern Rafah.

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The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that al-Hams was on his way to visit the ICRC facility when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before abducting him.

“This cowardly act targeted one of the most prominent humanitarian and medical voices who has conveyed to the world the pain of starving children, the suffering of wounded patients deprived of medication, and the cries of mothers at hospital gates,” the ministry said in a statement.

“It clearly reflects a deliberate intention to silence the truth and obscure the suffering of an entire people enduring one of the worst health and humanitarian disasters.”

Israel launched the war on Gaza after Hamas led a surprise operation against the regime on October 7, 2023, in response to intensified Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, the genocidal war has killed more than 59,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and left over 142,000 others injured.

Since late May, 875 people have been killed by Israeli forces in the strip while trying to get food.

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