Osama Tanous

Osama Tanous is a pediatrician, a board member of Physicians for Human Rights-I, and a visiting scholar at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.

Recent Articles

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

A Palestinian man wounded by an Israeli airstrike arrives at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 14, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Under siege, medical advice will do little to fight coronavirus in Gaza

Instructions like hand-washing, wearing masks, and consulting doctors online are a dark joke when Israel is trying to send Gaza 'back to the Stone Age.'

By Osama Tanous March 25, 2020