The American Medical Association has urged “medical neutrality” and offered no words of comfort or solidarity for its colleagues in Gaza facing annihilation. By doing so, write Tammy Abughnaim and Emily Hacker, members of Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Chicago, the AMA is ignoring its own policy which condemns “the military targeting of healthcare facilities and personnel and using denial of medical services as a weapon of war, by any party, wherever and whenever it occurs.”

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The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza do not have adequate access to clean water. The lack of safe drinking water is especially acute in the south, where the majority of the population is now concentrated, write Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman and Salma Yaseen from Gaza.

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