The lawyer for Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian physician from Gaza held without charge in Israeli custody for over 18 months, says he barely recognised his client during a prison visit last week due to severe injuries. Lawyer Nasser Odeh told the BBC that Abu Safiya — the former director of Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza — described being assaulted by more than five prison guards using hands, batons, and hammers, and told his lawyer: "I think someone has decided to kill me." The Israel Prison Service rejected the account as false, stating all detainees receive medical care in accordance with the law; however, Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the government to respond by Tuesday to a petition calling for the release of Abu Safiya and 13 other Palestinian doctors held without charge, while the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention this week declared his detention arbitrary and called for his immediate release.