On 13 July 2024, nine months after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza had begun, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, The Lancet, published a letter from Zion Hagay, Chairman of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), and Malke Borow, the head of the IMA legal department.
Part of it read as follows:
“There is no question that many in Gaza have died, although the exact numbers are unverified and sometimes misreported. Furthermore, other voices present an entirely different view…”
“The number of health workers killed in Gaza is high because Hamas appropriated several healthcare facilities as command centres … where they stored and launched weapons, and even held hostages. In such a case, the hospital loses any protection afforded it by the Geneva Convention.”
In response, I and others submitted the following letter, as an ethically necessary corrective. ……more