Mum's 'unfathomable' grief as son and partner killed in A477 head-on crash

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Young girl and man die in tragic crash involving pony and trap and tipper truck

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Major Chloe Watson Dransfield 'murder' update as police arrest 14-year-old boy

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But why hospitals? Because hospitals were not only places of treatment. They were places of refuge. As tens of thousands of Palestinians sought shelter within their walls, hospitals became the last spaces where survival was still possible.

To destroy them was to sever that final lifeline.
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Every Gazan doctor who refused to leave his or her post during the genocide is a hero. Every health worker who risked his or her life to save others represents a model of courage that should be emulated everywhere.
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Standing amid the ruins outside Kamal Adwan Hospital, surrounded by destruction, he walked alone in his white coat toward advancing Israeli armored vehicles — a lone doctor facing a war machine.

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Dr Abu Safiya must be released before he is tortured to death. I believe his health is very poor putting his life in danger. There should have been a global outcry since the day he was kidnapped. There must now be pressure to have him released. I fear our western governments are still not able to stand up to Israel, but they must. >>

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260402-torture-and-degrading-treatment-the-case-of-dr-abu-safiya-and-gazas-broken-medical-system/

#israel #genocide #hospitals #AbuSafiya

‘Torture and degrading treatment’ — The case of Dr Abu Safiya and Gaza’s broken medical system

“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degradi…

Middle East Monitor

BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris hospitalised amid prostate cancer diagnosis

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"President Donald Trump says people from the countries are national security threats, but the visa pause is forcing physicians who’ve lived in the U.S. for years to stop working and exacerbating staffing shortages that are a longstanding headache for hospital administrators, more than a dozen foreign doctors told POLITICO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/a-slowdown-in-visa-processing-is-wreaking-havoc-on-foreign-doctors-lives-00853010

#healthcare #hospitals #physicians #visas #immigration #DHS #USpol

A slowdown in US visa processing is wreaking havoc on foreign doctors’ lives

Physicians from countries Trump deemed national security threats are reaching the end of their visas without responses to their renewal applications.

Politico

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That destruction remains in effect today, even as global attention has shifted elsewhere, compounding the danger facing a besieged Gaza. “Israel must release Dr. Abu Safiya and all healthcare workers,” said UN experts. Israel should also release all Palestinian prisoners, lift the siege, and end the genocide in its entirety.

“States have the power to end his torment,” they said. They are not wrong — and there can be no moral or legal justification for their inaction.

#hospitals #healthcare #doctors

The #militarization of society has not spared the healthcare system. #Hospitals and #medical staff are being made ‘fit for war.’ This regressive social transformation, driven by the #war effort, is met with both support and resistance within the #healthcare sector: https://berlinergazette.de/calculating-war-readiness-the-militarization-of-healthcare-between-affirmation-and-resistance/
Calculating ‘War-Readiness’: The Militarization of Healthcare Between Affirmation and Resistance · BG | berlinergazette.de

The militarization of society has not spared the healthcare system. Hospitals and medical staff are being made ‘fit for war.’ This regressive social transformation, driven by the war effort, is met with both support and resistance within the healthcare sector. Nadja Rakowitz assesses the situation.

BG | berlinergazette.de
Psychiatrist in Tokyo arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting patient

The 55-year-old suspect allegedly assaulted the patient, a woman in her 20s, on the afternoon of Aug. 8, 2025, at a clinic he runs in Shinjuku Ward's Kabukicho area.

The Japan Times

Tragedy as 7-month-old baby 'shot dead in Brooklyn by man on moped'

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