PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #61: Gaza's health workers, defenders of a free Palestine

[Health PD]

This fortnight The attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the refusal to allow
sufficient food, water, and medical supplies into the besieged strip are
among the latest incidents in a long series of Israeli attacks on the
health of the people in Gaza. Thousands of children have never experienced
life outside of the blockade, and their mental and physical health is
forever marked by the occupation. Family members have been denied permits
to accompany their loved ones to receive essential treatments

Bulletin #61: Gaza's health workers, defenders of a free Palestine
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This fortnight

The attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the refusal to allow sufficient
food, water, and medical supplies into the besieged strip are among the
latest incidents
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in a long series of Israeli attacks on the health of the people in Gaza.
Thousands of children have never experienced life outside of the blockade,
and their mental and physical health is forever marked by the occupation.
Family members have been denied permits to accompany their loved ones to
receive essential treatments. Health workers have worked under a permanent
threat of physical attacks and intimidation looming over their heads.
Today, as Israel continues its bombardment of the Gaza Strip and allows
only 20 trucks of aid to enter, the same health workers continue to stand
by their patients and refuse to leave hospitals and health centers.

Over the two years of the People’s Health Dispatch, we regularly covered
health in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/0cd6f7f5?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
territories. We bring a selection of materials that should serve as
reminders of the extent to which the Israeli occupiers try to destroy, over
and over again, the right to health in Gaza: by imprisoning
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nurses, limiting access to essential medical necessities like COVID-19
vaccines
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/66c1ddf5?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
and subjecting people to incessant fear and strife
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.

By now, tens of thousands of people across the world have marched in
solidarity with Gaza. They have also taken to the streets to protect public
health care in other countries. In Switzerland
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2818067f?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
health workers attending Public Services International’s Congress demanded
urgent action on the global health worker shortage. In Italy
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/427dc6cd?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
the protection of the public health system has become a major rallying
point in a wider campaign against the policies advocated by the far-right
government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

The importance of upholding legislation that promotes public health systems
and a wide understanding of health can be seen in the example of Brazil
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/67f3e06b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
where years of progress in the field of nutrition were halted as the
corporate sector's influence on those shaping nutrition policies increased.
It is now up to the Lula government, together with small-scale farmers,
food producers, and the right to food movement, to reverse this trend once
again.
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In focus: Health in Palestine

*Israeli bombings and blockade is destroying healthcare in Gaza*
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Until urgent interventions are made thousands of Palestinians face a slow
and painful death in the absence of basic medical care and repeated attacks
on health workers by Israeli occupation

*“The killing of a Palestinian is a daily act”*
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Islah Jad, a women’s rights activist and lecturer at Birzeit University,
speaks about the state of the health system in Palestine and why
organizations working for the Palestinian people are being targeted by
Israel

*Palestinians suffer inhumane health conditions under the 15-year blockade
of Gaza*
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A human rights report reveals how the Israeli apartheid regime’s blockade
of Gaza prevents Palestinians from accessing their human right to health

*Vaccine apartheid in Palestine: The silent war by Israel*
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In violation of its obligations and responsibilities as an occupying power,
Israel has taken little effort in vaccinating Palestinians, leading to very
poor vaccination rates in the occupied territories and the general
deterioration of health facilities
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*Video: 11 months in Israeli prison: Shatha Odeh’s struggle for basic
rights*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/58962394?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh who was released recently after
spending months in Israeli prisons describes the struggle for basic rights
while incarcerated

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Data speaks
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Featured articles

*Public healthcare becomes key rallying point in Italy*
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More and more people in Italy mobilize to protect the public health system
against privatization and budget cuts promoted by far-right Giorgia
Meloni’s government

*Unions demand urgent action on health workers shortage and quality of care*
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Global trade union organization Public Services International concluded a
survey which suggests most health workers are contemplating leaving their
profession as global health workforce crisis intensifies

*Tackling malnutrition in an era of political uncertainty: the case of
Brazil*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/90250317?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

After achieving notable successes in the area of nutrition by 2014, Brazil
faces vulnerabilities, as effects of economic crises and Bolsonaro’s
pro-corporate policies
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People's Health Movement*
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