On October 29, 2023, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and neonatologist based at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, published an op-ed in the New York Times. The newspaper that had helped to platform the struggle and suffering of Dr. Abu Safiya and his community had now betrayed him. According to his lawyers, by the middle of 2025, Dr. Abu Safiya had lost nearly 100 pounds and had developed a number of medical conditions. The most deafening silence in all of this is on the part of the New York Times itself. Dr. Abu Safiya deserves better than being reduced to a few advertising clicks for a news organization that does not care whether he lives or dies.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2026 22:06 UTC