Palestinski doktor Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a i bugarske medicinske sestre Valya Chervenyashka, Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo i Kristiana Valcheva uhapšeni su u februaru 1999, manje od godinu dana nakon što su došli u Libiju da bi njegovali pacijente bolnice Al-Fateh u Benghaziju.
Palestinian doctor Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a and Bulgarian nurses Valya Chervenyashka, Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo and Kristiana Valcheva were arrested in February 1999, less than a year after they arrived in Libya to help care for patients at the Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi.