Israel Medical Association

Israeli police attack the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at Saint Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem, May 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

When hospitals become battlefields

The police attack on a Jerusalem hospital during Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral is emblematic of Israel's violent disregard for Palestinian health centers.

By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadli June 7, 2022

Medical team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A medical school in the service of colonialism

Ariel University's new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel's national medical body is defending it.

By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadli March 3, 2022

Dr. Ruchama Marton in her home in Tel Aviv. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

War crimes and open wounds: The physician who took on Israeli segregation

On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Ruchama Marton, the founder of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, talks about the atrocities she witnessed as a soldier, the enduring power of feminism, and why only outside help has a chance of ending Israel’s military rule over the Palestinians. By Alon Mizrahi Ruchama Marton belongs to what you might…

By +972 Magazine September 12, 2017

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A Palestinian man lying on a bed wears a face covering depicting hunger striking Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq, on February 19, 2016, during a demonstration protest marking 11 year for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. Israel's Supreme Court said on February 16, 2016, the Palestinian hunger striker who has fasted over 80 days must stay in the northern Israeli hospital where he is being held, after a compromise bid failed. (Activestills.org)

Force-feeding law seeks to oppress Palestinian lives, not save them

Israeli security authorities view hunger striking Palestinian prisoners as political time-bombs that can undermine the occupation’s control. The High Court agrees. In a unanimous decision by a three-justice panel, the Israeli High Court on Sunday approved the legality of the force-feeding law, which was enacted by the Knesset in July 2015. The law allows Israeli authorities to forcibly…

By Amjad Iraqi September 13, 2016

A medic wheels away an Israeli security guard who was stabbed by two Palestinian boys at a tramway station in the settlement neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev in annexed East Jerusalem on November 10, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Violence sparks medical ethics fight in Israel

The medical establishment in Israel has come under fierce attack for abiding by the fundamental ethic of treating the most seriously wounded first — no matter who they are and what they have done. With the current escalation in violence throughout Israel-Palestine showing no signs of abating, the issue of medical ethics has found itself at…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth December 17, 2015