The Gaza Health Declaration by Health Workers 4 Palestine

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Palestinians living in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine have endured more than two years of unprecedented Israeli violence, amounting to genocide. Any form of meaningful action in its wake must understand this violence as an acceleration of the longstanding “slow-motion genocide,” the ongoing Nakba, and the established conditions of occupation and apartheid, which together are intrinsic to the structure and function of the settler colonial Israeli regime.

In light of the anticipated ceasefire, we reiterate our unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people and all those who continue to resist Israel’s ongoing attempts at genocidal erasure.

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Morphine for Gaza? Limits of care during genocidal violence by Rachel Coghlan, James Smith, Osaid Alser

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  • In Gaza, during escalations in Israeli aggression and clearly illustrated in the current crisis, most palliative care needs are the direct consequence of life-threatening injuries sustained after Israeli military violence, coupled with the intentional decimation of the health-care system and the blatant denial of life-sustaining assistance. The decision to provide palliative care for many Palestinians is rarely—if ever—biomedically determined at the limits of comprehensive health-care provision. Rather, the threshold for palliative care is dynamic and politically determined by the Israeli state’s impunity to its international legal obligations as related to the right to health as an occupying power.
  • … We must expose and remediate these root causes of suffering by advocating for an immediate end to the genocidal violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people. Such acknowledgment and action is the necessary response from a profession whose role is to promote dignity, care, and compassion in death and dying.

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