The Palestinian "doctor of the poor" is finally released from Israeli captivity* after four months of "administrative detention". Dr. Mazen Rantisi, 71, was released from Ofer prison on Sunday, October 25, with visible signs of physical abuse on his body, including a red wound on his forehead. Israel's Israeli forces arrested Dr. Rantisi in a pre-dawn raid on his home in Ramallah on June 21, 2026, and he was subsequently indicted for his role as chairman of the Union of Health Work Committees, a Palestinian non-profit that Israel has defined as illegal. Since his arrest in Ofer prison, Rantisi has reported severe abuse, including medical neglect, when his regular medications are withheld and his requests to see a doctor are ignored, as well as physical abuse, severe overcrowding and being given food he described as unfit for human consumption.

The Palestinian "doctor of the poor" is finally released from Israeli captivity* after four months of "administrative detention". Dr. Mazen Rantisi, 71, was released from Ofer prison on Sunday, October 25, with visible signs of physical abuse on his body, including a red wound on his forehead. Israel's Israeli forces arrested Dr. Rantisi in a pre-dawn raid on his home in Ramallah on June 21, 2026, and he was subsequently indicted for his role as chairman of the Union of Health Work Committees, a Palestinian non-profit that Israel has defined as illegal. Since his arrest in Ofer prison, Rantisi has reported severe abuse, including medical neglect, when his regular medications are withheld and his requests to see a doctor are ignored, as well as physical abuse, severe overcrowding and being given food he described as unfit for human consumption.