Gaza hospital chief among Palestinians freed by Israel

His release was confirmed on social media by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and by a medical source inside the Gaza Strip. Al Shifa director Mohammed Abu Salmiya was detained in November. Successive raids have seen the hospital where he worked largely reduced to rubble since Israel launched its assault on Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel. Salmiya and the other freed detainees crossed back into Gaza from Israel just east of Khan Yunis, a medical source...