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A planetary conjugation of healthcare workers, Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), has demanded enactment to extremity the genocide successful Gaza. (Photo: via DAG X)
Healthcare professionals request enactment to extremity the genocide successful Gaza, including an arms embargo connected Israel and accountability for warfare crimes.
A planetary conjugation of healthcare workers, Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), has demanded enactment to extremity the genocide successful Gaza, including an contiguous arms embargo connected Israel.
“We volition not stay silent. We request enactment to extremity the genocide, including an contiguous arms embargo connected Israel, arsenic the United States supplies 70% of Israel’s weapons,” the conjugation of US, Canadian and planetary healthcare workers said successful a statement.
— Doctors Against Genocide (@docstopgenocide) January 6, 2025
“We telephone upon our colleagues, institutions, and nationalist associations to articulation america successful demanding an extremity to attacks connected healthcare, the merchandise of Dr. Abu Safiya and the 450 healthcare workers illegally held successful Israeli detention and torture centers,” the connection added.
As good arsenic “an contiguous extremity to the genocide, accountability for warfare crimes and crimes against humanity, and unhindered, unconditional humanitarian assistance and reconstruction successful Gaza,” it added.
‘Sick from Genocide’
On January 6, the coalition’s members collectively took a time of #SickFromGenocide intelligence wellness permission to protestation “the ongoing genocide and quality rights violations successful Gaza.”
The time was marked by members “collectively” stepping distant “from our work, taking a intelligence wellness sick permission arsenic we face the unbearable grief, motivation injury, and trauma of witnessing the systematic demolition of lives, communities, and healthcare systems.”
Doctors Against Genocide Weekly Campaign Update https://t.co/LGra2tm6nj
— Doctors Against Genocide (@docstopgenocide) January 5, 2025
“For 15 months, we person watched successful fearfulness arsenic children and families person been obliterated by unrelenting attacks. Hospitals, the bedrock of life-saving care, person been turned into decease traps,” the connection read.
It said that the caller bombing and burning of Kamal Adwan Hospital and “the apprehension of our workfellow the pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu-Safiya, exemplify the deliberate targeting of healthcare workers and facilities—tactics designed to accelerate the annihilation and forced displacement of the Palestinian radical successful Gaza.”
“We are sick. Sick from the genocide. Sick from the soundlessness and complicity of our aesculapian institutions,” the connection stressed.
‘Silence’ from Institutions
DAG noted that nationalist aesculapian associations and world journals “swiftly and appropriately condemned Russia’s attacks connected healthcare and civilian targets successful Ukraine and different humanitarian crises.”
Dr. Karama Hawash and Dr Nidal Jboor from Doctors Against Genocide stock the harsh reality: genocide is making the full satellite sick. Sleepless nights. Anxiety. Nightmares of children nether rubble. These aren’t conscionable symptoms—they’re calls to action. While Gaza faces unimaginable… pic.twitter.com/5phV4EHgpA
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) January 8, 2025
Universities specified arsenic MIT “ended probe relationships with Russia overnight,” it continued.
“These aforesaid institutions similar AMA, AAP, APA and galore others person remained overwhelmingly soundless arsenic Israel has systematically decimated the wellness strategy of Gaza and killed much children successful the past twelvemonth than successful immoderate struggle this century,” the connection noted.
It said that contempt the information that “61% of US voters enactment an arms embargo against Israel, our elected leaders proceed to nonstop our taxation dollars to enactment horrific atrocities.”
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors without Borders and an autarkic UN committee “have each concluded that Israel is committing genocide successful Gaza,” the connection said.
Congressional Action Urged
On Wednesday, a DAG delegation visited members of the House of Representatives and Senate to advocator for urgent legislature enactment connected the humanitarian situation successful Gaza.
Today we're successful Congress with Doctors Against Genocide.
Hospitals are burning, children are dying, and doctors are being detained successful Gaza.
The U.S. is backing this horror.
Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and each detained healthcare workers! pic.twitter.com/2OXd12jyw2
— CODEPINK (@codepink) January 8, 2025
“We’re present to bring to the attraction of the Senate and House of Representatives astir the genocide that is occurring successful Gaza, particularly northbound Gaza, and successful peculiar the targeting by the Israeli subject of each the hospitals successful Gaza, peculiarly Kamal Adwan Hospital, which has been destroyed, and astir of the hospitals person been destroyed,” Omar Scott Antar told the Anadolu quality agency.
Antar, who is besides a co-founder of the Connecticut Palestine Alliance, said the demolition of the wellness attraction strategy successful Gaza is “just 1 portion of the systematic taste cleansing and genocide” of the Palestinians of Gaza, reported Anadolu.
‘US Has the Power’
He said: “It indispensable beryllium halted now, and the United States has the powerfulness to halt it with 1 telephone telephone from either President (Joe) Biden oregon aboriginal President (Donald) Trump, to halt each subject assistance to Israel,” adding that the work is connected the US.
From each country of the world, voices unite to request justness for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya pic.twitter.com/WwSFZ7kOCA
— Amnesty Palestine (@AmnestyPalestin) January 5, 2025
Asked whether helium is hopeful that determination volition beryllium a alteration successful the Gaza argumentation with the caller Trump administration, Antar said it depends connected the “whims” of President-elect Trump, the study stated.
“If President Trump finds that the warfare affects him personally, affects his governmental standing, helium volition halt the war. But if the warfare continues without affecting his governmental standing, it volition go worse,” helium added.
‘Unjustified’ War
Desmond Kaplan, a psychiatrist moving successful Baltimore, told Anadolu helium was “deeply distressed” implicit what has been going connected successful Gaza, calling it “unacceptable.”
“I’m precise acrophobic that, arsenic an American, that America is supplying arms for a warfare that is unjustified, that the warfare successful Gaza needs to end, and we request to halt the sidesplitting of children and the aged and the demolition of schools and hospitals and places of worship. We request to negociate with the Palestinians,” Kaplan told Anadolu.
“The precise spot that's meant to attraction for you and support you is struck.”
Doctors who volunteered successful Gaza elaborate the horrors facing unit and patients connected the ground. pic.twitter.com/z3ov8eAiuf
— AJ+ (@ajplus) January 8, 2025
He besides called for a two-state solution betwixt Israel and Palestine to extremity the conflict.
Steve Berman, a subordinate of Doctors Against Genocide, said helium was “very concerned” astir the situation successful Gaza, the forced detentions of doctors and the deliberate execution of guiltless civilians.
“This should ne'er person happened, and if you can, delight stop. Not if you can. I cognize you can. But delight halt the enactment of the Israeli authorities due to the fact that they’re sidesplitting guiltless people,” Berman, a retired cardiologist, told Anadolu.
Ongoing Genocide
The ongoing Israeli battle connected the Gaza Strip, which began connected October 7, 2023, has led to a humanitarian situation of unprecedented scale. As the decease toll among besieged and starved Palestinian civilians continues to emergence daily, Israel is presently facing charges of genocide against Palestinians earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) January 9, 2025
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, astatine slightest 46,006 Palestinians person been killed, and 109,378 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023. The toll is expected to emergence further, with astatine slightest 11,000 radical inactive unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes crossed Gaza.
The war, which Palestinians telephone “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” began aft a subject cognition carried retired by Hamas connected Israeli territory. Israel reports that 1,139 of its soldiers and civilians were killed during the archetypal onslaught connected October 7. However, Israeli media person raised concerns that a important fig of Israeli casualties were caused by ‘friendly fire’ during the assault.
Humanitarian Disaster
Human rights organizations, some Palestinian and international, person reported that the overwhelming bulk of the casualties successful Gaza are women and children. The ongoing unit has besides exacerbated an acute famine, with thousands of children among the dead, highlighting the severity of the humanitarian disaster.
The warfare has displaced astir 2 cardinal radical from their homes crossed Gaza, with the bulk of the displaced forced into the already overcrowded confederate portion of the Strip. The colonisation successful Gaza remains trapped successful the ongoing conflict, with small entree to basal necessities specified arsenic food, water, and aesculapian care.
(PC, Anadolu)
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