Palestinski doktor Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a i bugarske medicinske sestre Valya Chervenyashka, Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo i Kristiana Valcheva uhapšeni su 11 mjeseci nakon što su u martu 1998. stigli u Libiju da bi pomagali u njezi pacijenata u bolnici Al-Fateh u Bengaziju.
Palestinian doctor Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a and Bulgarian nurses Valya Chervenyashka, Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo and Kristiana Valcheva were arrested 11 months after they arrived in Libya in March 1998 to help care for patients at the Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi.