Medicine is Never Neutral - Solidarity, healthcare, and Genocide in Gaza with Dr. Yipeng Ge

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1. A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide (Public Health and Human Rights Initiative, PHRI)
   This report frames much of the health system collapse in Gaza through the lens of genocide law. (רופאים לזכויות אדם)

2. Safeguarding healthcare workers in Gaza and throughout conflict zones — Khanji et al., 2025
   Focus on legal / ethical imperatives for protecting medical personnel in conflict. (PMC)

3. Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent — The Lancet (Editorial)
   A call to medical institutions to break selective silence and act. (The Lancet)

4. “Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and accountability” — (Abi-Rached et al.) BMJ Global Health

5. “The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point” — International Journal of Health Policy and Management

6. Doctors Against Genocide — Medical Resources
   A live, updated resource hub including webinars, profiles of Gaza health workers, and advocacy materials. (Doctors Against Genocide)

7. The Sameer Project
   A Palestinian-led medical / relief operation in Gaza. Their public pages (e.g. Open Collective) explain their work in shelter, medical care, supplies, etc. (Open Collective)

8. Librarians & Archivists with Palestine — Readings & Resources
   A curated and updated reading list and resource guide (nonfiction, fiction, archives, etc.). (Librarians with Palestine)

9. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) statements on Gaza / doctors’ calls to action
   MSF has publicly described that doctors in Gaza “face the devastating reality that they cannot stop genocide.” (MSF UK)

10. “Gaza’s healthcare system is being destroyed by targeted attacks” (The Guardian)

11. Doctors who visited Gaza speak of ‘atrocities,’ collapsing healthcare” (Reuters)

12. Healthcare collapse and disease spread: a qualitative study of challenges in Gaza strip
    Abuzerr, S., Zinszer, K., & Mahmoud, H. (2025). BMC Public Health (Open Access) — examines how the collapse of healthcare infrastructure is driving infectious disease spread in Gaza. (BioMed Central)

13. Barriers faced by primary healthcare providers in addressing emergencies in the Northern region of Palestine before and during the Gaza war
    Hamshari, S., Hamadneh, S., Ghneem, M. et al. (2024). BMC Primary Care (Open Access) — focuses on what primary healthcare providers are experiencing, before & during the genocide. (SpringerLink)

14. Resilience amid chaos: The role of Gaza medical points
    — from PMC (Open Access) — looks at “medical points” (mobile / temporary clinics) and how they function under severe shortage, damage, and conflict pressure. (PMC)

15. Rebuilding the health sector in Gaza: alternative humanitarian voices
    Blanchet, K., Najem, M., Shadid, L., et al. (2024). Conflict and Health (Open Access) — perspectives from humanitarian actors on how the health system can be rebuilt and what alternative / grassroots voices are calling for. (BioMed Central)

16. Defending the right to health in Gaza: a call to action by health workers
    Mohammed, F., Elgailani, U.S.A., Ibrahim Ali, S.Y., et al. (2024). Conflict and Health (Open Access) — health workers’ statement about the destruction of the health system, challenges, and what is urgently needed. (SpringerLink)

17. The Urgent Struggle for Health Justice in Gaza: A Crisis of Human Rights and Inequity
    Mansour, W., Theobald, S., Fouad, F.M., et al. (2025). International Journal of Health Planning and Management (Free Access) — an editorial framing Gaza’s situation as part of a broader struggle for health justice. (Wiley Online Library)

18. Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone
    — from PMC (Open Access) — detailed account of how critical care (ICUs, surgeries, anesthesia, etc.) is being impacted by conflict, blockades, hospital damage etc. (PMC)

19. Frontiers | The War on Gaza and Its Impact on Public Health: Challenges and Pathways to Recovery
    Al Bakri, Khader, Khatib, et al. (2025). Frontiers in Public Health (Open Access) — discusses present public health emergencies in Gaza and what pathways there might be for recovery. (Frontiers)

20. The cost of conflict: how war is crippling Gaza’s healthcare system
    Sajid, F. (2025). Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery (Open Access) — letter-style piece detailing how war is affecting healthcare, capacity, infrastructure, etc. (SpringerOpen)

21. “Medicine is being strangled”: An MSF doctor on collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system. Médecins Sans Frontières. (2024). Doctors Without Borders.

22. Famine and disease escalate: Gaza’s humanitarian disaster. (2024). Annals of Medicine & Surgery.

23. Public Health Crisis in Gaza — The Responsibility of US-Based Academic Medical Journals. Ijaz, N., & Habib, A. R. (2024).JAMA Network.

24. Doctors for Global Health Statement on Gaza. Social Medicine.

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