Urgent Health Update: Consequences of the war on Gaza - March 24, 2024
The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council is sharing information on the health implications of the attacks. We will update in a week. Please use this information to organize & educate. As the Israeli government threatens an all out assault on Rafah, increasing the risk of further massacres & genocide, starvation is rising & multiple countries move to defund & destroy UNRWA, this is a time to make your voices heard. The month of Ramadan has become a much more dangerous time for Palestinians in terms of Israeli aggression.
On March 24, 2024, JVP HAC held a webinar on the Health Crisis in Gaza, featuring Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. John Kahler. Moderator: Alice Rothchild, Zoom recording can be found here:
Drs. Ahmad and Kahler have recently returned from working in Gaza. Dr Ahmad volunteered at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. He’s an emergency room physician and assistant program director for the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Chicago. Dr. Kahler is a pediatrician and cofounder of the MedGlobal project in Gaza (https://medglobal.org/gaza/) and has worked in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and in hospitals and primary health centers in Khan Yunis and Rafah. He is working to set up a primary health center and small clinics in shelters focused on nutrition.
Healthcare Crisis in Gaza Teach In
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2025
Student National Medical Association
U.S. DOUBLES DOWN ON DEFUNDING UNRWA — DESPITE FLIMSY ALLEGATIONS
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT will defund the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians through next year — even as 1.1 million people in Gaza face threats of famine in coming months — on the basis of flimsy allegations by Israel against a tiny minority of the agency’s staff that have yet to be proven.
Organizing Aid to Gaza Led Me to a Harsh Truth: Biden Is on Board for Ethnic Cleansing
The Biden administration isn’t just complicit by refusing to condemn Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid — an absurd situation leading the U.S. to incur significant costs and unnecessary risks for symbolic airdrops. He’s actively supporting Israel’s oft-stated but ill-defined war aim of eradicating Hamas, a military effort with little concern for Palestinian lives or the fate of Israel’s hostages held in Gaza.
“MAN-MADE HELL ON EARTH”: A CANADIAN DOCTOR ON HIS MEDICAL MISSION TO GAZA
"What we’d been seeing livestreamed on Instagram, on social media or whatever, I actually saw myself and it was worse than I can imagine. I saw scenes that were horrific that I’d never witnessed before and I never want to see again."
Dr. Karameh Hawash-Kuemmerle’s panel at the UN event about being a Woman in Palestine
Israel Lobbyists Tried to Cancel an Event on Mental Health and Palestine – but Failed
Palestinians repeatedly are forced to prove their humanity.
Come to my book reading and conversation about my middle grade novel, Old Enough to Know, on May 20 at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline MA.
Nazism and the Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine is publishing an important and thoughtful series "by independent historians, focused on biases and injustice that the Journal has historically helped to perpetuate. We hope it will enable us to learn from our mistakes and prevent new ones."
I also hope that the journal will examine and condemn the destruction of hospitals in Gaza, the arrests, torture, and killings of health care personnel, the restrictions of food, water, and medication as a war tactic, and the genocidal policies of the Israeli government and military. Silence is complicity.