The Silencing of Health Workers Who Speak Up for Palestine
Israel has killed over 1,400 health care workers in Palestine. Yet the doctors and nurses in Britain who speak up in solidarity with their colleagues have repeatedly been disciplined and silenced.
Health care workers hold signs with the names of colleagues killed in Gaza outside Downing Street to call for an immediate cease-fire in London on November 10, 2023. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Anadolu via Getty Images)
The recent airing of the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on Britain’s Channel 4 was a wake-up call to many who’d been fence-sitting about the horrors that Israel has inflicted on the Palestinian people.
The film showed that for almost two years, doctors, nurses, paramedics, and surgeons have been bombed in hospitals, detained and tortured, disappeared, buried under rubble, and deliberately targeted in visibly marked ambulances.
Over 1,400 health care workers have been killed since the start of the genocide almost two years ago. And it’s still not over.
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