More than 1,150 health professionals and organisations have signed a petition calling for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), accusing it of failing to uphold medical ethics during Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The campaign, led by the People’s Health Movement (PHM), Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza) and the Health Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace, is demanding that the IMA be suspended from the World Medical Association (WMA).
Campaigners accuse the IMA of silence in the face of Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system, the killing and detention of Palestinian medical workers and torture in Israeli detention centres.
According to PHM, the campaign seeks to “end medical complicity” and press the global medical community to act against what it describes as the IMA’s failure to condemn attacks on healthcare in Gaza. The group says 1,722 Palestinian healthcare workers have been killed since October 2023, while hospitals, ambulances and clinics have been repeatedly attacked or destroyed, crippling Gaza’s health system.
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