Pro-Pals gathered on Tower Bridge in London Sunday to unfurl a Palestinian flag and drop a banner proclaiming “Free Dr. Safiya,” the Hamas colonel who doubled as the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. This protest follows other protests across the city, including on Downing Street, demanding that the British government take action to free the Hamas terrorist from Israeli custody.

Video footage shows them chanting and spraying red and green mist across the River Thames.

Hussam Abu Safiya was arrested in December 2024 and has since been moved to solitary confinement. The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, he has also served in the dual role of colonel in the Hamas Medical Military Services, a common tactic for terrorists: terrorist by night, ordinary civilian job by day; then when Israel nabs them, the international community denounces Israel for arresting and/or striking medical workers, journalists and others.

Safiya has also published opinion articles in The New York Times in his guise as a Gazan doctor, lending credibility to Hamas propaganda against Israel.

As one would expect, human rights groups have demanded his release, claiming he is merely a physician and not a terrorist. In addition, his lawyer alleged that his client endured severe abuse at the Sdei Teiman military base. Indeed, human rights groups are urgently demanding his release, saying his life is in immediate danger.

Haaretz, which can reliably be expected to defend terrorists, posted on X a teaser from an editorial: “A doctor belongs in a hospital, not a prison cell: Free Abu Safiyah now.”