Thursday, October 21, 2004

Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes "The wall will isolate 97 primary health clinics and 11 hospitals from the population they serve."

"Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) have lambasted the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) for its silence in the face of these systematic violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which guarantees the right to health care and the protection of health professionals as they do their duty. Remarkably, IMA president Dr Y Blachar is currently chairperson of the council of the World Medical Association (WMA), the official international watchdog on medical ethics."

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