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UN special rapporteur calls for global medical boycott of Israel

December 30, 2024 at 3:55 pm

UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese makes a speech during the conference organized by Vienna University Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Helmut Kriger at the AKH campus of the university, in Vienna, Austria on December 06, 2024. [Aşkın Kıyağan – Anadolu Agency]

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, today urged medical professionals around the world to sever ties with Israel as a direct response to the destruction of Gaza’s health care system.

“I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel’s full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Albanese said on X.

Albanese’s comments reflect growing international concern over the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where hospitals and clinics have been targeted and overwhelmed by Israel’s attacks and bombs. The lack of essential medical supplies, infrastructure damage and loss of life have left Gaza’s health sector struggling to cope.

Albanese also highlighted the case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian doctor who has been detained by Israeli authorities, calling for his immediate release and adding the hashtag #FreeDrHussanAbuSafiya in support of his cause.

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