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Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.

While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.

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Mainstream western media coverage of the exchange reflected the same pro-Israel bias that has long characterised reporting on Israel and Palestine, which privileges Israeli lives over Palestinian ones.

MEE understands that the woman who made the complaint against Khan met Margareta Kassangana, a vice president of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC’s oversight body, to discuss the case prior to the decision by the ASP’s leadership bureau to outsource the investigation to the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).

The decision in late 2024 to publicly refer the case to the OIOS was unprecedented and prompted concerns that Khan has been denied both due process and his right to privacy while the allegations are investigated.

This comes as MEE can also reveal details of complaints raised with the ASP in which another member of its leadership bureau is accused of “reckless” and “prejudicial” conduct, after a recording emerged of her making prurient remarks about Khan’s accuser in which she appeared to presume his guilt.