Palestine and the case for abolitionist medicine by Ayah Abo-Basha and Sourik Beltrán on Mada

These forms of violence signify two related yet disparate relationships between healthcare and the strategy of settler colonization. On one hand, colonial powers require well-staffed hospitals and advanced medical care to ensure the continued presence of healthy, able-bodied settlers and the soldiers who defend them. On the other, settler-colonizers actively decimate local healthcare delivery systems that serve Palestinians, in Palestine and elsewhere, a strategy for advancing genocide.