Organizations are raising money for medical students from Gaza to continue their studies abroad. Continuing their medical education is vital to ensuring the future of healthcare in Gaza.
Israel wants to cause a breakdown in social order in Gaza, and it can’t achieve that without erasing its hospitals.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published four letters rife with racist anti-Palestinian tropes. The prestigious platform created the appearance of intellectualism and expertise, but it’s all just racism with a ribbon on it.
67 Palestinians, including babies and children, were killed Sunday night as Israel intensified bombing in Rafah, where over 1 million Palestinians are sheltering, in preparation for a ground invasion that experts warn would amount to genocide.
American health institutions were quick to condemn the October 7 attacks, but those same institutions remain silent over Israel’s genocide in Gaza after 105 days.
As healthcare workers, we must look at root causes and attempt to treat those. The symptom we are witnessing today is brutal violence, and the diagnosis is colonization. The treatment must be de-colonization and a Free Palestine.
Israeli has actively targeted and decimated the healthcare sector in Gaza. Withholding or interrupting health care is a way of preventing Palestinians from living, even as they await death.
In the sterile field of medicine, mention of culpability or politics amounts to contamination. In the colonial situation, doctors can’t afford this narrow a definition of health, or of life–diagnosis requires context.
Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan on how the Israeli healthcare system discriminates against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territory.
Cancer patients in Gaza have to overcome two hurdles to secure treatment – Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.