🩺Help protect the NEXT GENERATION of physicians! Medical student advocates for
#FreePalestine
should NOT be punished for showing solidarity. We are calling for urgent action to ensure the
@CaRMS_CA
residency match is fair and free from political targeting.
#called2theoffice
Our joint statement (), with 9 endorsing organizations, calls on
@CaRMS_CA
to initiate a full investigation into CBC article which reveals plans to target medical students & interfere with residency app. process due to signing HAP letter.
#called2theoffice
URGENT—SIGN OUR LETTER: Israel’s war crimes have intensified to unprecedented levels the last few days. We urge all workers and learners in the healthcare field to sign and call for immediate action.
#NoHealthUnderOccupation
#EndTheGenocide
#FreePalestine
Take a moment to honour the 458 Palestinian health workers who have been killed by Israeli forces in
#Gaza
.
We remember you.
We will not fail you.
You've redefined dedication, service, and solidarity.
#FreePalestine
#NotATarget
#CeasefireNOW
As Israel continues systematic attacks on the health system, including the current siege on Al-Shifa and other hospitals, we honour the 458+ Palestinian healthcare workers who have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Healthcare workers around the world stand in solidarity with
Join Jews Say No To Genocide and allies demanding hospital CEOs retract their inaccurate statements RE: last week's 'Hands Off Rafah' protest & issue an apology to Toronto’s Palestinian community & the thousands who marched calling for a
#CeasefireNOW
As Canada supports genocide in Palestine, it continues its own genocidal policy & actions against Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. We stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation.
From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime
Statement:
This brief Correspondence by the Director of Al-Shifa Hospital in the Lancet "is a plea to every human being to help stop this genocide right now..the world should not be silent about the killing of civilians in the thousands"
#GazaGenocide
#Gaza
Palestinian doctor Mohammad Subeh, who just returned from a 5-week mission in Gaza, on the harrowing reality on the ground.
"I pulled bullets out of a 3-month-old's thigh, I pulled bullets out of a 13-year-old boy's shoulder...an 8-year-old girl shot in the abdomen."
U of O doctor
@yipengGe
suspended for pro-Palestine posts says he's been reinstated, won't go back. "The attacks are meant to discredit, call into question someone's character and integrity” to silence and scare people from speaking about Palestine
“To remain silent and to feel isolated and to feel afraid does so much more harm to a movement for a free Palestine.”
Canadian Doctor Yipeng Ge talks about the suspension from his medical residency and why he decided not to continue his education there.
As health workers, we are dismayed at the discriminatory visa process and health coverage for Palestinian and Sudanese newcomers to Canada. 🚨Sign our letter and share widely🚨
#RacistRestrictions
1/
At least 20 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals are now non-functional, and those remaining open are facing a barrage of attacks, lack of supplies, and a ticking clock before they run out of fuel. Sign now! Share widely!
Shame on our elected officials who continue to support this. Shame to the medical associations who continue to remain silent about this health crisis. Shame to all of us for not having a ceasefire yet.
Three Palestinian children flee from Gaza city to the south alone. Their father is in the south and their mother was killed by an Israeli air strike in the north. The children left the north because of the famine and lack of food.
Brishti Basu, the journalist who wrote the brilliant article 'Chilling effect': People expressing pro-Palestinian views censured, suspended from work and school', had her contract cut short by
@CBC
. We appreciate her critical work and hope she finds a new position soon.
An update: My one-year contract role with
@CBCNews
has been cut short after 5 months, due to budget cuts, and will officially end on Jan. 29.
I'm grateful to have had the chance to tell impactful stories on a national level and to work with some really great people.
📣 TAKE ACTION 📣 Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and their children as a weapon of war. Follow along to learn more and see how you can help. 1/
2024- it's a new year yet the genocide in
#Gaza
continues. We honour the lives of 22,000+ Palestinians killed by Israel—1 % of Gaza's population—including 300+ healthcare workers. We reassert our unwavering commitment to the cause of 🇵🇸 liberation.
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine
@CaRMS_CA
& AFMC must be accountable to the medical communities they serve. With the CaRMS match process already underway, urgent action is needed. Medical students should not be punished for their health advocacy. We must call for an end to anti-Palestinian racism. Please share!
Dr. Ben Thomson was suspended (and later reinstated) for supporting Palestinian human rights. Here he discusses the egregious silencing of health care workers
#called2theoffice
. We must answer the calls of our colleagues in Gaza to end this genocide & save lives.
#CeasefireNOW
“My physician friends in Gaza have been screaming that the international community needs to make this stop.”
Canadian doctor Ben Thomson was suspended from his hospital and targeted online after speaking up for Palestine, yet he remains committed to demanding a ceasefire.
As we hear about atrocities at Kamal Adwan Hospital &
@WHO
describes Al-Shifa as a hospital “in need of resuscitation", health care workers, learners & allies marched with
@palyouthmvmt
on Toronto's Hospital Row. We continue to stand in solidarity with health workers in
#Gaza
Ontario medical students putting the Hippocratic oath into action. 👏 May this inspire other health professions to act in solidarity with the people of
#Gaza
. We are instructed to
#DoNoHarm
at the minimum: hospitals, patients and HCPs are
#NotATarget
#CeasefireNOW
#MustStopNow
"The attack on Al-Shifa Medical Complex is the most visible aspect yet of Israel’s systematic&carefully-crafted plan to destroy&besiege Gaza Strip’s health sector, bring it to the brink of collapse&deny the Palestinian population any chance at survival or medical care or shelter"
YOUR VOICE MATTERS! Over 2000 health workers in Canada have signed our open letter to condemn Israel's destruction of the health system in Gaza. We demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the ongoing genocide. Show support at:
#FreePalestine
#AlShifa
"As a Pediatrician I didn't think I would be of any use in a wartime hospital ...But I can tell you in one day during my service at the hospital 4 out of 5 patients in our resuscitation or code room were children under the age of 16"
#Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine
An American Dr. Who spent 2
Weeks in
#Gaza
hospitals:
“4 out 5 patients were children under the age of 16”
Her testimony is so powerful but also devastating as a witness of the “failure of humanity”
#Israel
HAP is urgently seeking Arabic-speaking OBGYN physicians, midwives and pediatricians to act as a resource to birthing women in Gaza before, during and after delivery. Please sign up to help and circulate within your networks.
#MaskOffMaersk
Maersk happily works with illegal settlements and the army outposts ‘protecting’ these settlements. Here the trucks breeze through checkpoints in the West Bank that Palestinians are stopped at
#FreePalestine
The students at
@occupyuoft
stood their ground, firmly rooted in their will to do stop a genocide. They are up against a powerful institution with money to spend on lawyers who argue that ppl have the right to eat breakfast on the lawn.
@UofT
listen and
#divest
now!
"In what world is doctors saying “stop killing” or “don’t bomb hospitals” contradicting their professional, moral and ethical obligations?"
#Called2theOffice
#Gaza
Al Shifa, a recognized teaching hospital & the largest in Palestine is completely out of service. With 750 beds, 26 operating rooms, 250,000 ED visits &17,000 surgeries annually &care for 450 dialysis patients, its decimation is a profound blow to
#Gaza
health system
#NotATarget
BREAKING: Shifa Hospital's medical leaders hold an improvised press conference outside the ruins of the totally destroyed tertiary, university hospital, Gaza's most important. Israel is fully responsible for this war crime. We shall never forget! Dr. Mads
We are calling on
@uOttawaMed
,
@CaRMS_CA
,
@AFMC_e
to take the necessary steps to STOP harassment & discrimination against medical learners. E-mail your concerns about the
#CaRMSCoverUp
at the University of Ottawa's Dermatology residency program: 1/
On February 27, we will be sending our open letter on Discriminatory Health Coverage and Visa Process for Palestinian and Sudanese Individuals Arriving in Canada () to the prime minister, federal and provincial ministers of health and immigration, and 1/
Eight cities from
#coast2coast
have answered the call!! Find an action near you this Thursday,
#Nov30
to honour health colleagues and those who have been killed in
#Palestine
. Events are open to ALL community members!!
The double standard between resources afforded for Ukrainians fleeing war and people fleeing Gaza and Sudan should shock anyone paying attention. In Canada,
#NotAllWelcomed
#RacistRestrictions
2/
The Cost of Inaction is very high.
#CeasefireNOW
.
The International community failed the children of Gaza. " a nine-year old boy named Ahmed was being treated basically with sedation to ease his suffering as he dies"
#MustStopNow
#Gaza
WHO today visited Al-Aqsa Hospital, where scores of injured people were taken overnight following strikes in central
#Gaza
, including in the vicinity of the Maghazi refugee camp.
Palestinian health authorities reported that 70 people were killed, while Al-Aqsa Hospital staff
Geneva Convention Article 18 is clear, there is NO circumstance where it is permissible for hospitals are to be targeted and attacked.
We Mourn Thousands of Palestinians, including health workers.
#shutitdown4palestine
#CeasefireNow
#StopTheGenocide
"Children in Gaza are being starved at the fastest rate that the world has ever seen"
#GazaCeasefireNow
❗️
This is immoral, indefensible and entirely preventable.
🚨 Urgent action is needed to prevent starvation in Gaza
Malnutrition is reaching critical levels in Gaza, particularly in the north which is completely cut off from aid. We are joining with
@RESCUEorg
to call for urgent international action
Read: (1/5)
#Vancouver
: Join us November 30th at 5:30pm at 700 Hamilton St. for a vigil to honour our health colleagues and those who have been killed in Palestine. We will be gathering at CBC to draw attention to the absence of coverage of the atrocities happening in
#Palestine
.
"I saw the most appalling atrocities, and I saw things that I never would have expected to have seen in any health care setting"
#GazaGenocide
#CeasefireNOW
A panel of doctors spoke out at the UN about the horrors and suffering they saw Palestinians face in Gaza, as Israel’s onslaught and blockade continues ⤵️
Important response to
@UofT
admin from
@utfaculty
.
The "ban on encampments and building occupations constitutes an unreasonable, disproportionate, and entirely premature attempt to inhibit the lawful and peaceful exercise of freedom of expression..."
FRENCH TO FOLLOW
‼️CALL OUT TO ALL HEALTH WORKERS!‼️
We call on health workers from coast to coast to join our call to action on Thurs, Nov 30. We encourage you to join or organize your own action! Please ensure that our collective demands are centred!
🧵1/9 Since last Nov, ~6 months ago, almost 4000 Health workers from coast to coast signed our open letter to condemn Israel's destruction of the health system in Gaza &demand an immediate ceasefire &an end to
#GazaGenocide
.
Since then, we have witnessed:
YOUR VOICE MATTERS! Over 2000 health workers in Canada have signed our open letter to condemn Israel's destruction of the health system in Gaza. We demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the ongoing genocide. Show support at:
#FreePalestine
#AlShifa
This May marks 3 yrs since the discovery of a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children, victims of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
We will come together on May 18 to honour all of the children whose lives were stolen by settler colonial violence
#FreePalestine
#LandBack
Courageous U of T medical students call for a FREE PALESTINE and call out
@UofT
to DIVEST & CUT TIES from Israeli genocide, occupation and apartheid!
Shame on U of T for moving their cameras away from these messages during the live feed! Ceasefire not Censorship!
🚨⛑️ATTN HEALTH WORKERS & STUDENTS⛑️🚨
Join our contingent for the 100k march for Gaza as part of the National Day of Action!!
Sat Nov 4 @ 130PM
Elm St & University, SE corner
Wear your scrubs & masks with
#NotATarget
written on them!
#HealthForGaze
#EndTheGenocide
No one and nowhere is safe in Gaza. We need a sustained
#ceasefire
now to prevent more deaths and injuries, to ensure the delivery of unhindered aid and a massive scale up to meet medical needs.
Another loss in the Gaza Strip as Mustafa Hijazi, 10, passed away today at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central
#Gaza
due to severe malnutrition and dehydration. His death highlights the dire conditions faced by many in Gaza, even in areas like central parts of the strip,
🧵On this National Doctor's Day, we honor the doctors of Gaza. We honor 450 HCWs and 150+ physicians killed in the genocide.
Doctors working without pay.
Doctors living in tents of displacement.
Doctors starved who treat starving patients.
Doctors working in dark with no
"We are deeply concerned by the stories we are hearing of medical learners being disciplined for making space to acknowledge the pain and suffering of civilians inGaza and denouncing violence, crimes against humanity or genocide.
#called2theoffice
#Gaza
Al-Shifa Hospital's dialysis unit has reopened with 4-5 beds. Congratulations to the team who have worked so hard to get this essential unit up and running. Credit: Dr. Marwan Abu Sada
🚨⛑️ATTN HEALTH WORKERS & STUDENTS ⛑️🚨
Join us in Toronto to commemorate the 76th yr of Nakba and demand justice, liberation& an end to the Genocide.
WHEN: Saturday May 11 @ 130pm
WHERE: Elm St & University-SE corner
Wear healthcare attire&masks with
#NotATarget
#FreePalestine
YOUR VOICE MATTERS! Over 2000 health workers in Canada have signed our open letter to condemn Israel's destruction of the health system in Gaza. We demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the ongoing genocide. Show support at:
#FreePalestine
#AlShifa
📌Our open letter re:
#RacistRestrictions
advocates for the 🇨🇦 gov't to provide equitable migration pathways for forcibly displaced people from
#Gaza
&
#Sudan
. While we ask you to sign & share, we also emphasize the Palestinian
#RightToReturn
as a 🗝️ tenet of a
#FreePalestine
1/
We join an international group of health organizations to call on the global health & human rights community, health professional bodies & global health institutions to condemn the deliberate destruction of Gaza health system. It's time to Act up, Speak up, Stand up.
day 18 of the People’s Circle!
our demands are for
@uoft
to disclose all ties sustaining zionist apartheid, divest their financial holdings in genocide, and cut all ties to academic institutions operating in zionist settlements.
(gorgeous poster by
@michael_deforge
)
We urge allies from the fields of Health, Law/Policy, Migrant/Refugee Work, Academia, and Community Organizations to sign our letter and support our demands for the Government of Canada.
#StatusForAll
3/ Fin
Stand With Our Healthcare Heroes! "This fund will primarily cover legal fees for cases in which health care professionals face challenges for speaking out against hatred and injustice."-
@nccm
#called2theoffice
Students who’ve set up camp at McGill have faced torrential downpour, a court injunction, and threats of police violence.
But they’re refusing to move until their demands are met: divestment from companies and universities implicated in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
"On January 2nd, the WHO announced that there are currently 424,639 cases of infectious diseases in Gaza. Amid an ongoing assault that has destroyed 27 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals [..] epidemics are likely to mean mass death."
HAP is offering free virtual medical consultations for pregnant women in Gaza before, during & after delivery. Please circulate & reach out directly to our Facebook Messenger account @ HAP.GAZA
The IHRA working definition and its accompanying examples equate criticism of the State of Israel with antisemitism. This definition has been widely criticized by leading experts - it is being weaponized to silence criticism of Israel and enable anti-Palestinian racism. 2/6
Join our candlelight vigil to mourn the many Palestinians, including health workers, deliberately targeted and killed in Gaza.
Israeli Consulate, 2 Bloor St. E
Thurs Nov 9, 6-7PM
WEAR your scrubs, scrub cap, etc
BRING an image/item to leave on the steps
#shutitdown4palestine
On Dec 16, health care workers in Vancouver took to the streets to call for permanent
#CeasefireNOW
& and end to the targeting of health infrastructure in
#Gaza
. There can be no health under occupation & that is why we advocate for a
#FreePalestine
📷by
@KelliRP
With CARMS interviews now underway, it's important students know about their right to interview processes free of bias and discrimination.
Please share to help inform Canadian medical students going through the CARMS process!
SOCIAL MEDIA STORM - JOIN US TODAY!
TODAY we are sending our open letter on Discriminatory Health Coverage and Visa Process for Palestinian and Sudanese Individuals Arriving in Canada (link in bio) to the prime minister, federal and provincial ministers of health and 1/
Ontario doctor Ben Thomson, who has been volunteering in Gaza and WB since 2013, was suspended him after tweets on Israel-Palestine. Now he’s suing Mackenzie Health for >$1.5M. The hospital intends to defend itself in court.
🚨ICYMI: Sign our letter to call out Canada's
#RacistRestrictions
on people fleeing war & genocide in Sudan & Palestine. We demand comprehensive healthcare coverage, supports &
#StatusForAll
, while advocating for ceasefires, an end to occupation & the Palestinian right of return.
As health workers, we are dismayed at the discriminatory visa process and health coverage for Palestinian and Sudanese newcomers to Canada. 🚨Sign our letter and share widely🚨
#RacistRestrictions
1/
"AWDA calls on all human rights, international and humanitarian organizations to put pressure on the occupation forces to ensure the preservations of the lives of the 148 employees trapped inside Al Awda Hospital"
#NotATarget
#GazaGenocide
Healthcare workers are NOT targets and hospitals MUST be protected. And yet the Israeli army has been systematically destroying every health facility in Gaza with impunity. This madness must stop. A press release from Al Awda Hospital. Ceasefire NOW!
Join us April 26th, 2024 for a panel discussing healthcare in Occupied Palestine under Israeli Occupation. Brought to you by the Health workers Alliance for Palestine (HAP) - Montreal Chapter.
"Palestine is a litmus test for JUSTICE for everyone.. what happens today will determine how we move along a trajectory that will eventually guarantee justice for ALL in the world"
#FreePalestine
#Studentsprotests
As the morbidity & mortality of the genocide in
#Gaza
continue to rise, HCPs are defying censorship. Palestinians deserve much more than they are being afforded in mainstream media & academia. Health justice demands that we see their humanity, listen & advocate for
#CeasefireNOW
After extensive editing and fighting to get the word “Palestine” in the manuscript our letter is finally published in
@JAMA_current
We call all HCW to speak up, protect HCW and release all 40 of them who were abducted by Israel
@DrMadsGilbert
@trklou
#NotATarget
#MedTwitter
There is life, not only death in
#Gaza
. Heartwarming and uplifting to hear a newborn is doing well- a ray of sunshine in all this gloom
#FreePalestine
#GazaChildren
🫶This baby was born this morning at the PRCS medical point in
#Jabalia
, northern
#Gaza
Strip. The birth process was successful, utilizing minimal available resources.👏Both the mother and the child are in good health.🙏
Photography by: PRCS volunteer, Yousef Khader
Horrifying! 12,300+ Palestinian children killed in just over 4 months in
#Gaza
which is HIGHER than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the world combined.
This is a Genocide.
#MustStopNow
#CeasefireNOW
In 5 months Israel has killed more children in a strip of land the size of Philadelphia than all conflicts worldwide did in the past 4 years combined. Destroying a population from its roots.
Gaza Academics and University Administrators letter to the World
"We call upon our friends &colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities"
Thank you
@brish_ti
for your bold and honest reporting. This double standard and punitive censorship should worry anyone paying attention.
#called2theoffice
Across Canada, doctors are being suspended or removed from tasks they’ve performed for years—all for voicing criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza.
In a new investigation,
@brish_ti
exposes how med schools and hospitals are silencing Palestinian solidarity.
Listen to this important message from Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo of
@Glia_Intl
from Rafah about the catastrophic medical situation across Gaza.
There is no safe place in
#Gaza
. Hospitals
#NotATarget
Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo of
@Glia_Intl
recorded this voice message from Rafah on Tuesday about the catastrophic medical situation across Gaza and Israel's attacks on al-Awda hospital in the north
Today
#ICJ
ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts in
#Gaza
among other provisional measures. Unfortunately, a ceasefire was not ordered. We need only reflect on the case brought by
#SouthAfrica
to see why we must continue to push for
#CeasefireNOW
to end this genocide.