Seven Doctors. Still Detained. Still Waiting.

Since October 2023, Israeli forces have detained hundreds of Palestinian medical workers from hospitals across Gaza. Doctors, nurses, and administrators have been pulled from operating rooms, wards, and corridors — many held without charge, without access to lawyers, without word to their families.

The seven doctors below were detained at the hospitals they chose to stay in when everyone around them was fleeing. Some have been held for over two years. Their families have received no official information about their condition or whereabouts.

We publish their names and faces because forgetting is also a form of complicity. Naming them is the least we can do.

What you can do

Share this post. Say their names. Write to your elected representative and ask what diplomatic pressure is being applied to secure their release. Donate to Médecins Sans Frontières, the Palestinian Red Crescent, or any of the medical relief organisations operating in Gaza.

And if someone asks you why a diaspora platform is writing about detained doctors, tell them: because diaspora is not distance. It is the wound that does not close. These doctors are our people. Their names belong in our memory.