Doctors and nurses demand release of Palestinian pediatrician
Outside the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in London, doctors, nurses, and campaigners gathered to demand action over the illegal detention of Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya by the occupying Israeli regime.
They delivered a petition urging the college to publicly call for his immediate release alongside other Palestinian healthcare workers held in Israeli custody.
It sends out the message that if you're not working in the war zone, which is accepted by the Western world or by the neoliberal capitalist world, then all international immunity that you're given as a medic becomes irrelevant.
This is giving consent to target medics, and medics have been blatantly targeted. You know, it's over 1,820 medics have now been purposely murdered in Gaza alone.
That's without the Lebanon, without what's happened in the rest of Palestine, and if we don't stand up, and the Royal Colleges of Medicine, and Britain, and the West, the rest of the Western world don't stand up for the medics of Gaza now and the medics of Palestine, then that is giving consent for them to be targeted in wars anywhere, or in genocides I say, because it's not a war; it's a blatant genocide.
Leigh Evans, Nurse
Organizers say the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, which represents thousands of child health specialists across Britain and throughout the world, should use its influence to defend fellow pediatricians working in conflict zones.
They argue that the silence from leading medical institutions risks normalizing attacks on healthcare workers and hospitals, especially in occupied Palestinian territories.
... I want to live long enough to see Netanyahu before a criminal court.
On the annexation of the West Bank, part of that has been about the arrests of individuals, and one of them is Dr. Mazen Al-Rantisi, known as the Doctor of the Poor.
Can I ask the minister to raise his case with the Israelis, but also can I ask him to raise another case that we raised some time ago with Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who's been 500 days now in isolation?
If we can at least raise those cases, at least their families know they're not forgotten.
John McDonnell, Labour MP
The protest comes as international organizations continue to express concern over the impact of the genocidal war on Gaza's health sector.
Campaigners assert that medical professionals should never become targets during war and insist international pressure must increase to secure the release of detained healthcare workers.
They maintain that this demonstration is the latest step in a wider effort to rally international medical institutions behind the release of detained Palestinian healthcare workers from Israeli prisons, emphasizing that pressure on professional bodies will continue until they publicly call for action.
Healthcare workers here say the campaign extends beyond one individual. The detention of Dr. Abu Safiya has become a symbol of the wider dangers the medical community in Gaza is facing.
They hope that public pressure will prompt Britain's pediatric bodies to publicly advocate for his release.
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