Israeli Medical Association

Medical staff at the underground level of Rambam Hospital in Haifa, September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The myth of Israel’s Arab doctors
Celebrated as proof of Israeli liberalism and vilified by the right, Palestinian physicians are in fact being quietly shut out of the profession.
By Baker Zoubi August 31, 2026
Palestinians demonstrate in solidarity with the journalist Muhammad Al-Qiq, 33, who has been on hunger strike for 36 days in Israeli prisons, since Israeli forces arrested him from his home last month, Nablus, West Bank, December 31, 2015. (photo: Ahmad Al-Bazz)
Hunger striking Palestinian journalist accuses hospital of forced treatment
Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, who began his hunger strike 60 days ago, claims hospital staff have been forcing him to receive liquids intravenously against his will. By Noam Rotem (translated by Einat Adar) In Afula’s Haemek Medical Center, a 33-year-old Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq is being shackled to his bed 24 hours a day. Next…
By +972 Magazine January 24, 2016
Illustrative photo of Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli military prison (By ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com)
Israeli doctors versus the state in showdown over force-feeding
The government hoped that transferring Mohammed Allan to a different hospital would make force-feeding him easier. But a doctors’ protest is gaining ground. A confrontation between the Israeli government and doctors treating hunger-striking prisoners is reaching a fever pitch, testing the medical community’s independence against government efforts to quell a nonviolent protest by Palestinian detainees.…
By Noa Yachot August 10, 2015
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Illustrative photo of Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli military prison (By ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com)
Israel takes a page from the Guantanamo playbook
Netanyahu is pushing a new bill to allow the force-feeding of Palestinian hunger strikers. The prime minister is in good company. American practices at the prison at Guantanamo Bay are giving Benjamin Netanyahu ideas. Earlier this week, a draft bill authorizing the force-feeding of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners passed the first of three readings in the…
By Noa Yachot June 11, 2014
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