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Tag: World Health Organization (WHO)
Jun 6, 2026
Israel bombs WHO facilities in Gaza as global outcry grows
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, Jul 2025
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2025.07.25 Update: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa in Madison
First Unitarian Society, 12 noon & Christ Presbyterian Church, 7 pm
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Civil Society Groups Call for Diplomatic Convoy to Get Aid Into Gaza
JULIA CONLEY, COMMON DREAMS, May 19, 2025
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Hamas Says It Will Release Israeli Captives After Aid Surge
Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT, February 13, 2025
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Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and what is Israel doing to him?
TAREQ S. HAJJAJ, MONDOWEISS, JANUARY 3, 2025. It has been one week since the Dr. Hussam…
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Group of Quebec doctors suspends non-essential work Monday to protest bloodshed in Gaza
CBC, January 6, 2025 As Israel’s deadly assaults on Gazans and their fragile health-care system…
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The Scramble To Find The Gaza Doctor In The White Coat
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of six medical workers with the Chicago-based organization MedGlobal…
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The Last Two Weeks Have Been the Most Dire in the Gaza War: Hospital Director
Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza “will turn into a graveyard for everyone inside” amid…
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Exterminate, expel, resettle: Israel’s endgame in northern Gaza
Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s…
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Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SALLY ABOU ALJOUD, Associated Press, November 1, 2024 BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens…
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For the past 6 months, only 237 patients have been evacuated out of Gaza AMBA…
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Eyewitnesses say the IDF is starving residents, targeting hospitals, bombing shelters, and murdering civilians in…
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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 353
Israel launches bombing campaign on Lebanon as Hezbollah retaliates Israel’s intensifying bombardment of Lebanon has…
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Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi
Since 2021, Israeli soldiers have met weekly protests in the West Bank village with deadly…
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UN report: Israel has killed 366 UN staff and family
The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of…
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The E.U. sanctioned settlers for ‘human rights abuses against Palestinians’
Ephrat Livni, New York Times, July 16, 2024 A surge in Jewish settler violence against…
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Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention Kavitha Chekuru, The Intercept, May 24 2024…
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Israel strikes Iran, Gaza health ministry says Israel destroyed the Strip’s health system Israel targets…
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Many of us are watching with horror the severe humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. Unfortunately,…
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Starvation as a Weapon of War Thalif Deen, IPS UN Bureau, December 22, 2023 Displaced…
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A nurse at al-Nasr hospital was caring for premature babies. Then he faced the most…
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11 am CT Washington, D.C. | adc.org | November 13, 2023 — The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee…
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Noura Erakat, Democracy Now!, Oct 13, 2023
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Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, 9 October 2023
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Anna Abraham, Currently, October 12, 2022 The Israeli-occupied territory of Palestine faces both natural and…
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Screening & discussion Sun, Dec 12, 2021, 1:00 PM CST With severe medicine shortages and…
‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes
Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey, The New Arab, 20 December, 2019
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B’Tselem, 24 July 2019
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Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, We Are Not Numbers, May 20, 2019 “I want to be one…
It’s World Water Day! Say No to Water Apartheid
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Ramah Kudaimi, March 22nd, 2014
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Visualizing Palestine, March 2013 DESCRIPTION In partnership with EWASH (a coalition working in the water…
Milk from Wisconsin to Rafah
The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) is partnering with the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme…
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World Food Programme Report, 28 October 2003 . . . Christiane Berthiaume of the World…
