Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council
Urgent Statement on the Destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital
12/27/2024

On Friday 12/27/24, Israeli military forces physically invaded, burned and destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. Critically ill patients and staff were forced to move outside and ordered to strip naked in the cold. Soldiers disconnected IV lines, turned off oxygen, and other essential medical treatments, cut off communication by the hospital staff, burned the buildings, and abducted the hospital staff–whose safety and whereabouts are unknown at this time. Kamal Adwan is the latest hospital in Gaza to have been destroyed by the Israeli military over the past 14 months of this genocide. The entire healthcare infrastructure in Gaza has been systematically targeted and destroyed impacting survival itself. 

The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council (JVP HAC) issues the following demands in response to the ongoing assault on the health system and healthcare workers in Gaza: 

1) President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken must immediately call Israeli officials to account for the targeting of all hospitals and with a spotlight on Kamal Adwan. There must be a full and independent investigation into the attacks on Gaza’s health system;

2) The U.S. must abide by International and US law and 

*Halt military aid to Israel immediately 

*Demand a full impartial legal investigation into the actions by Israel at Kamal Adwan Hospital and report these to the ICJ and the ICC as plausible war crimes;

*All staff and patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital must be accounted for and an international body allowed full access to oversee that the staff are immediately freed unharmed, and that the patients and families are safe and receiving the care needed;

3) Demand that Israel 

*Agree to an immediate and permanent ceasefire 

* Allow entry of all required humanitarian aid 

* Completely withdraw from Gaza and allow families to return to their homes to rebuild. 

Read the full statement and take action here.

NOT IN OUR NAME!
WE MUST CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT!

On December 26, 2024 Israel BOMBED SANA’A AIRPORT IN THE PRESENCE OF SENIOR UNITED NATIONS AND WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP.

THIS IMPUNITY MUST END!

CALL OR WRITE THE WHITE HOUSE to demand an immediate ceasefire!

WRITE YOUR CONGRESSSPERSON to stop arming Israel!


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JANUARY 6, 2025
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We Are Sick from Genocide

Being "Sick from Genocide" reflects the immense moral injury, emotional trauma, and grief experienced by healthcare workers as we witness genocide and other human rights violations against patients and their healthcare providers, such as those in Gaza. Most of Gaza’s hospitals have been destroyed, doctors kidnapped, patients murdered, and medics burned alive. US and international medical institutions and hospitals are almost completely silent about this. Some healthcare personnel have experienced repression at their workplaces for speaking out to make their institutions accountable.

Join Doctors Against Genocide, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council and allies and call in sick on Monday, January 6. Healthcare worker and allies are taking a mental health sick day to pause, reflect, grieve and re-energize to demand the end to the genocide in Gaza.

We Demand:
1. An immediate permanent ceasefire
2. Allow in all needed humanitarian aid
3. Stop arming Israel
4. Release and full accounting of all detained HCWs and patients!